The RightsRoom blog
Notes on the business of rights
The international rights market, foreign and translation rights, and what it takes to run a modern rights room, from the team building RightsRoom.
Literary rights management: what the job actually is, and where it quietly breaks
Availability grids, co-agents, option windows, royalty statements and fair season. A field guide to the discipline, and to the places where a rights room loses deals without noticing.
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The map is being redrawn: how a more divided world is reshaping international book rights
Rising censorship, book bans and political upheaval are changing where translation and foreign rights can travel, and what that means for the agencies trying to keep up.
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The hidden cost of running foreign rights on spreadsheets
A spreadsheet is free to start and quietly expensive to keep. Here is where rights tracking tends to crack, and what to do before it costs you a deal.
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Translated fiction is booming. Is your back office ready?
Translated fiction sales are up 22% and a young crowd is driving it. The opportunity is real, as long as your rights operation can keep pace.
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