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- From: marks@iris.mincom.oz.au (Mark Stavar)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Auctions-Agents
- Message-ID: <4105@iris.mincom.oz.au>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 01:05:56 GMT
- Organization: Mincom, Brisbane, Australia
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- Greetings Writers,
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- I have two questions that I would like to field among the readers of this
- group:
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- 1. "Going to Auction ..."
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- An Australian author, Bryce Courtney, wrote a story (The Power of
- One). When he was ready to try and get it published, he quizzed a few
- publishers about it. He received such strong interest in the work
- that he decided to take the book _to auction_, and received the
- unheard of sum (for a first book) of Aus $1M ( or so the story goes.
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- The term implies getting publishers to bid against each other in order
- the get the highest price for the rights to publish the book. Apart
- from this, can anyone shed light on how one goes to auction? Is there
- an accepted procedure or forum for doing such a thing? Can anyone go
- to auction?
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- 2. Agents
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- In many other fields of artistic endeavour it is common to have an
- agent to negotiate rights, prices, etc. on behalf of the artist,
- television and film script writers for example.
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- Is it a common, acceptable, desirable thing to engage and agent for
- the purposes of negotiating on behalf of writer?
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- Any info ar comments appreciated.
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- Ciao
-
- marks
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- Mark Stavar
- Mincom Pty Ltd
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- Brisbane Q Aust
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- Email: marks@iris.mincom.oz.au
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