New insights into the US market, previously not visible to researchers, are coming to light now as NPD’s new BookScan License Reporting Service comes up to speed, tracking more than 4,000 licenses and more than 10,000 ISBNs weekly.
Apollo 11 and Woodstock: Australia’s Murray Books Opens Rights Sales at IPR License
Based in Adelaide, the book packager Peter Murray this week begins selling rights online to roughly a dozen of his titles, with special emphasis on anniversary titles around the moon landing and music of 1969.
Amazon Announces ‘Merch Collab’ Licensing Program at Licensing Expo in Las Vegas
Amazon’s new Merch Collab program promises to connect brands with designers and manufacturers to create branded merchandise, with Amazon tracking sales and paying royalties.
UBM Partnership Adds Children’s Books Rights and Licensing to Beijing Book Fair
The Beijing International Book Fair’s newly dedicated children’s book program is announcing a partnership with exposition giant UBM to expand the fair’s licensing opportunities.
North American Licensees Announced for Roald Dahl Story Company
The first US and Canadian producers of merchandise licensed by the estate of Roald Dahl—the Roald Dahl Story Company—have been named, and Quentin Blake’s imagery remains the foundation of the products to come.
Marvel’s Spider-Man Widens His Web in Russia: Eksmo-AST Buys Into Comics
Some 10 publishers in Russia have licenses to produce Marvel-branded content, but the comics publisher Kofilmo is counting on the size of Eksmo-AST to help it vanquish all foes.
Canada’s Entertainment One Is Wattpad’s Newest Content Partner
The latest in Wattpad’s expanding array of content partnerships brings it together with eOne, a major production and distribution hub in Toronto.
Multi-Territory Digital Publishing Rights Sold for ‘Deer Little Forest’
‘We understand that great content plays a significant role in creating a high-quality app,’ says Bakhram Fayzutdinov on licensing ‘Deer Little Forest.’
Finland’s Laura Nevanlinna: ‘Learning from Angry Birds’
The EVP of the new Kaiken Entertainment has a message for Berlin’s Publishers’ Forum: Think ‘full 360,’ story worlds, and ‘finding the right partners.’
Managing Rights in Customized Publishing: Risk and Reward
Rights today ‘are much more stringently controlled than in the past,’ says Klopotek’s David Hetherington ahead of London Book Fair.