The list of rights events grows as March without London Book Fair approaches. And an online event stakes out a full day for Regency romance for Georgette Heyer fans.
Some of the more than 50 Georgette Heyer books offered by Penguin Random House UK. Image: PRH Georgette Heyer
The Business Online: A ‘Digital Licensing Fair’
Our article from Friday’s Rights Edition (February 19) on digital efforts to handle a spring without London’s or Bologna’s traditional trade shows has prompted notices of more events.
The main center for much of this at the moment, not illogically, is the UK where the London Book Fair has decamped its usual dates and moved to June 29 to July 1. Without its normally roaring rights center a few floors up the elevator at Olympia London, many agencies and other outfits have taken to the ether to try to keep rights and licensing balls in the air.