Books Ain’t Dead!

 

Whoever says publishing is dead hasn’t been watching enough TV. Good old fashioned books are alive and well these days…thanks to television. Book source material has always been major fodder for the big screen, (and is regularly Oscar-worthy at that, some of us have always maintained that adaptations are the last bastion of intellectualism in Hollywood, but that’s another story…) but now TV producers and networks are getting in on the word, literally.

 

Teenage girls aren’t the only ones getting their pages turned, major literary royalty has been seeing deals, including Pat Conroy, and a host of young, acclaimed authors. The commercial potential of multiple platforms for author’s stories are a huge driver of the book market.

 

Books publishing rights are often sold simultaneously with film or TV rights, and the latter’s potential can be a boon to an author’s chances of making their work a big seller.

 

As it stands now, there is no Emmy category for adapted material, but that could easily change.

 

Maybe the way to get more people to enjoy reading…is to get more people to enjoy their television.

-Katherine Myers

http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/abc-lands-darren-star-dramedy-in-one-of-paul-lees-first-major-development-moves/

http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/abc-hot-on-my-formerly-hot-life-memoir/

http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/prince-of-tides-series-in-the-works-at-abc/

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