Book/lab Literary Agency

What Book/lab Literary Agency does

Book/lab Literary Agency (legal entity: Book/lab Sp. z o.o. sp.k.) is a specialist literary agency founded in 1996 in Warsaw, Poland. The firm's sole line of business is brokering translation rights between foreign rights holders (individual authors, international literary agencies, and publishers) and Polish publishers seeking works to translate and release in Poland. The agency represents a roster that includes authors nominated for and winners of major international literary awards (Nobel, Man Booker, Orange, Pulitzer, Orwell, Kapuściński), and covers all major literary genres — novels, historical books, economics, popular science, cookbooks, biographies, and psychological guides.

The operating model is a traditional agent-intermediary structure with six employees working out of a single Warsaw headquarters at ul. Miłobędzka 10. The firm carries no disclosed technology platform beyond a bilingual WordPress website and standard social media accounts. Revenue mechanics follow standard literary agency convention (commission on rights deals, terms not publicly disclosed); the firm has no disclosed revenue, no outside funding, and is structured as a privately held Polish limited partnership with a nominal 60,000 PLN share capital. Geographic scope is explicitly limited to the Polish market, with the value proposition centered on the agents' negotiating skill, longstanding publisher and foreign-agency relationships, and the curatorial quality of the represented author roster.

Name

Book/lab Literary Agency

Legal name

Book/lab Sp. z o.o. sp.k.

Website

https://literatura.com.pl

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Book/lab Literary Agency is a Warsaw-based, six-person literary agency founded in 1996 that sells translation rights on the Polish market on behalf of foreign authors, international literary agencies, and publishers across all major genres.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Literary Agency Services

NAICS

Book Publishers (51313)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

General Trade Publishing (Adult Fiction & Nonfiction) (MPAJAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Literary & Classics Publishing (MPAJAAAC)

Keywords

• Literary agency services
• Translation rights
• Rights representation
• Book publishing
• Author representation

Headquarters

HQ city

Warsaw

HQ country

Poland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Book/lab Literary Agency is a specialist literary agency founded in Warsaw in 1996 that sells translation rights on the Polish market. The agency represents authors, foreign literary agencies, and publishers from around the world, matching their titles with Polish publishers across all literary genres including novels, historical books, economics, popular science, cookbooks, biographies, and psychological guides.

Product overview

Book/lab is a specialist literary agency (single unified offering) selling translation rights on the Polish market. The agency represents authors, literary agencies, and publishers from around the world, offering representation across all literary genres including novels, historical books, economics, popular science, cookbooks, biographies, and psychological guides. The core service is the agency representation itself — matching Polish publishers with international authors and rights holders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Translation Rights Representation End-to-end representation for selling translation rights to Polish publishers on behalf of authors, foreign literary agencies, and publishers from around the world. Covers all literary genres including novels, historical books, economics, popular science, cookbooks, biographies, and psychological guides.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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No

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Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Curtis Brown: One of the largest UK literary and talent agencies with broad author representation across multiple genres. Larger scope than Book/lab but operates the same core literary agency model.
• William Morris Endeavor (WME): Global talent and literary agency representing authors across publishing, film, television, and digital. Overlaps with Book/lab on author representation and rights sales but operates at vastly larger scale across the full IP value chain.

Direct peers

• The Wylie Agency: New York-based literary agency representing high-profile authors for translation and subsidiary rights. Comparable in handling marquee/literary authors and rights representation across territories.
• Macadamia Literary Agency: Polish literary agency based in Warsaw handling translation rights and representing international authors on the Polish market — directly comparable in geography, service focus, and scale.
• The Marsh Agency: UK-based literary agency specializing in translation rights on behalf of foreign publishers and authors into English-speaking markets. Closely comparable rights-intermediary business model.
• Susijn Agency: Dutch literary agency focused on translation rights representation across European markets. Directly comparable in service model — selling rights into local markets on behalf of international authors and foreign agencies.
• Graal Literary Agency: Polish literary agency representing authors and foreign publishers in Poland — a direct competitor to Book/lab on the same Polish translation-rights market with similar service offerings.
• Liepman Agency: Swiss/German literary agency representing authors and publishers for translation rights across European languages. Comparable in business model and in handling a multi-genre author portfolio.
• Andrew Nurnberg Associates: One of the world's largest international literary agencies specializing in translation rights. Operates from multiple regional offices (China, Central Europe, Russia, Baltic) and is the closest comparable to Book/lab in terms of translation-rights business model.
• Pontas Literary Agency: Barcelona-based literary agency representing authors for translation rights and film/TV. Comparable European literary agency with similar rights-representation business model and international footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/booklabagency
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• Instagraminstagram.com/booklabagency
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/book-lab-literary-agency

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