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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
If you have a contract with your agent, it is probably a violation of that contract to make any direct deal with a publisher. Macmillan's going directly to an agented author is a very serious violation of protocol. It reeks of "trying to pull a fast one."
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At Macmillan I suppose they refer to it as "business acumen".
If whoever came up with this scheme is sending out their CV in the next few days we will know how the top brass views it holistically.