It wasn't worth the effort to reap the small sums involved in selling to them. Now, however, all these previously marginal markets become exploitable. The technology that makes online trading possible actually began at the prompting of science superagent John Brockman, who was the first major literary agent to turn to the Web for all his dealings, boasting that he now has an office where the telephone seldom rings. Joel Fishman and Jacqueline LeDonne of Subrights responding to customers. Unlike the other major online trading operations, Rightscenter does not charge a commission on deals that are concluded there.
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The members of that board, who include publisher Karen Rinaldi at Bloomsbury USA, and agents like Ralph Vicinanza and Kim Witherspoon in this country and Luigi Bernabo and Peter Fritz overseas, as well as scout Mary Anne Thompson, is designed to assure that the interests of typical customers are being knowingly cared for. And according to Fishman there have been a lot of new customers. I aim to prove that proposition. It's too soon to say how well this will work, but Bogaty is proud of the initiative, noting that this is the first-time authors have been invited to make their own online deals. Deals have also been closed within Rightsworld on major titles like the Esther Williams memoir Million Dollar Mermaid and the autobiography of Mikhail Gorbachev.