FILM RIGHTS OF BOOKS
ITH British film studios being exhorted to increase production, English authors are hoeful of augmenting their incomes by the sale of the film rights of their books. The prices normally paid for these rights are, however, not spectacular.. A report that £120,000 was paid for the rights of a new novel by F. L. Green was received in literary circles in London with some scepticism as the, price ordinarily offered by British film companies for a publishéd book is about £3000. The figure might even in some cases be as low as £500, while it was stated that the maximum that could be hoped for by an unknown writer was £5000,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 450, 6 February 1948, Page 17
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115FILM RIGHTS OF BOOKS New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 450, 6 February 1948, Page 17
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