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Literary agent Carmen Balcells has brokered a deal to sell e-books by authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Camila Jose Cela for five euros each.
The Guardian reports that an agreement between leer-e, a Spanish book downloading site, and Balcells allows her "select group of authors to sidestep their normal print publishers".
The print publishers do not hold the electronic rights to "most" of the authors' works, the article said. As a result, Balcells would be effectively publishing them direct through leer-e.
A dozen works are available already on the site, with Ignacio Latasa, co-founder of leer-e, estimating 120 would eventually be converted to digital format.