My non-fiction agent will deduct certain expenses including postage. However, of the course of a decade these expenses have been trivial, not the least because so much now gets done by e-mail. I think over ten years, I've been charged about $100.00 for these expenses, all of which have been itemized so I've known what they were. I've never had any problems with this.
Re: Agents being author employees --
Nope. They are the author's representative, who are charged with looking for their client's best interests, and they do have to follow the wishes of their clients. But that's not exactly the same thing, not the least because (nearly all) agents have more than one client and must take the interests of their other clients to heart equally. In my opinion, my agents don't work for me, although they work for my interests.
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Date: 2004-12-17 05:40 pm (UTC)My non-fiction agent will deduct certain expenses including postage. However, of the course of a decade these expenses have been trivial, not the least because so much now gets done by e-mail. I think over ten years, I've been charged about $100.00 for these expenses, all of which have been itemized so I've known what they were. I've never had any problems with this.
Re: Agents being author employees --
Nope. They are the author's representative, who are charged with looking for their client's best interests, and they do have to follow the wishes of their clients. But that's not exactly the same thing, not the least because (nearly all) agents have more than one client and must take the interests of their other clients to heart equally. In my opinion, my agents don't work for me, although they work for my interests.