The Netflix effect: Now there's big money in dead authors
John GapperContributor
When John Updike died a decade ago, the literary agent Andrew Wylie persuaded the great American novelist’s estate to let him handle posthumous deals for his work.
It did not have great expectations — “I’m rather puzzled by what’s in it for an agent,” one co-executor mused at the time.
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John Gapper is associate editor and chief business commentator of the Financial Times.
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