book agent
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- noun
- /bʊk ˈeɪdʒənt/
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agente literario
- After a year of revisions, I finally found a book agent who believes in my story.
Examples
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My book agent helped me secure a publishing deal for my new novel.
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So just to encourage that you have the ability to contact book agents, reach out to authors directly.
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So just to encourage that you have the ability to contact book agents, reach out to authors directly.
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And then halfway through the proposal to the publishers or to my, my book agent, sorry, I changed it.
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Look, I have a meeting with my book agent At my mom's house in 15 minutes.
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A book agent.
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Here's an email I sent to my good friend Ramit recently asking for an intro to a book agent:
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As per this long stream of commentaries: my eyes would have appreciated some stimulation beyond the typed word; and I recently met with my book agent to talk about publishing first online (in blog form) with the thought that a hardbound book would follow, along with ample "visual" stimuli.
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The book agent visited several bookstores to promote the author’s upcoming release.
Synonyms
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A person or shop that sells books
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A person who travels to different places to meet customers and sell goods or services
A person who travels to sell or give out books, often religious
A person or shop that buys and sells books, often second-hand and rare
A person who sells secondhand or rare books
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is compositionally derivable: 'book' (books) + 'agent' (person who acts/represents) yields a person who works with or on behalf of books, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it's someone dealing with books (e.g., selling or representing them). This follows a common noun+noun agent pattern cross-linguistically; although there may be minor ambiguity about the exact role (sales agent vs literary agent), the general sense is transparent.
Etymology
The noun book agent comes from the simple image of a person carrying a box of books and going door to door to sell them. Because that person worked as an agent for a book company and often traveled between towns, the phrase now means 'a person who sells books', often a 'traveling salesperson'.