With more books’ imagery planned for coming years, the Skechers-Dr. Suess agreement starts with ‘The Cat in the Hat’ in Europe and North America.
Rights Roundup: Debuts in the Dog Days of Summer
Titles in our latest Rights Roundup are by authors based in Sweden, Canada, the UAE, Iceland, the UK, Ecuador, and China’s Sichuan province.
Spain’s Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial and Canada’s Wattpad Strike Rights Deal
PRH Grupo Editorial gets translation rights to English-language titles from Wattpad Book, a world Spanish exclusive.
Canada’s Access Copyright Foundation Announces New Grants
This year’s Professional Development Grants program has made allowances for applicant’s plans upended in the coronavirus COVID-19 emergency.
Canada’s Top Hat Acquires the US’ Bluedoor, as Teaching Modes Shift
Toronto’s Top Hat adds Bluedoor’s science-focused content to its platform operations in the digital higher-education space.
Words Without Borders: Paraguay’s Indigenous Guaraní-Language Poetry
An Indigenous language based in Paraguay yields poetic musings from a tongue in which ‘word’ and ‘soul’ are the same.
Canada’s Giller Foundation Donates $50,000 to Indigenous and Diaspora Literature
The Giller Foundation in Toronto issues two major grants to writing organizations working in Canada to support Indigenous literature.
Germany’s Constantin Film Acquires a ‘Rocky-esque’ Story From Canada’s Wattpad
As Canada’s Wattpad Books buys a ‘lockdown romance’ for 2022, Constantin Film acquires a Wattpad story with more than 80 million reads.
Canada: White Pine Options Kids Can Press’ YA Book on Women Politicians
Taking a look at 19 internationally prominent women politicians, the YA title ‘In Good Hands’ by Stephanie MacKendrick is to be made into a TV series.
Canada’s Access Copyright Foundation Announces Marian Hebb Research Grants
The Marian Hebb Research Grants support ‘the creation of a publishable work’ in French and English Canada, and allows for extended project timelines in the pandemic