Philip Pullman calls for UK to adopt EU plans to protect authors' royalties Read morePublishers always try to grab film, TV, stage and merchandising rights when they are buying book rights. Even though they aren’t film, TV, or stage producers. The rights new authors never think will be important, mainly because they’re so thrilled to be published. When I sold Orion my first Horrid Henry book in 1993, early in my career, the book deal included all those other rights. Subsequently, a company called Novel Entertainment obtained these rights and adapted my Horrid Henry books into a TV show, a stage show, a film, computer games, merchandising etc.

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2016 16:30 UTC