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Should WotC buy a Fantasy Novel Publisher like Tor next?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7843595" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>Again? Wizards published a M:tG novel two months ago. They publish the occasional D&D novel too. They don't need to buy a publisher. They <em>are</em> a publisher.</p><p></p><p>As for picking up IPs, that doesn't work the same way as it does in the video game world. Bantam Books publishes "A Song of Ice and Fire," for example, but if you buy out Bantam, that doesn't mean you now own the IP of Westeros. George R. R. Martin owns Westeros. He has signed a deal with Bantam to publish certain works in that setting, but both the works and the setting belong to him. If you buy Bantam, you get those publishing rights--which are worth a lot of money, don't get me wrong--but whenever GRRM produces something that isn't covered by an existing deal, you have to talk to his agent just like anyone else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 7843595, member: 58197"] Again? Wizards published a M:tG novel two months ago. They publish the occasional D&D novel too. They don't need to buy a publisher. They [I]are[/I] a publisher. As for picking up IPs, that doesn't work the same way as it does in the video game world. Bantam Books publishes "A Song of Ice and Fire," for example, but if you buy out Bantam, that doesn't mean you now own the IP of Westeros. George R. R. Martin owns Westeros. He has signed a deal with Bantam to publish certain works in that setting, but both the works and the setting belong to him. If you buy Bantam, you get those publishing rights--which are worth a lot of money, don't get me wrong--but whenever GRRM produces something that isn't covered by an existing deal, you have to talk to his agent just like anyone else. [/QUOTE]
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