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We just closed the largest foreign rights deal for children’s literature in China over the past year.
Setting an annual record in the world's second largest publishing market, we negotiated with the world’s sixth largest publisher to establish a multi-book agreement that exemplifies our mission—empowering authors to enrich a more diverse audience. Through exports to 35+ countries, relationships across the world's top-10 publishers, and seamless global solutions, BBI isn't just leading the industry, we're reshaping it.
BBI is built to deliver a turnkey experience for our authors. In addition to handling the negotiation and management of subsidiary book rights, we collaborate with organizations across the globe for country-specific sales integration, and have developed a broad network of partners who translate, export, and present our titles to retailers around the world.
INSIDE BBI'S LATEST RIGHTS DEAL
WHO'S INVOLVED? BBI’s four-book foreign rights deal includes three titles from includes three titles from best-selling duo Michael Sampson and the late Bill Martin Jr, as well as a book by Sampson and Bonnie J. Johnson. Martin, the author behind Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? and more, has collaborated with Sampson, an author and Fulbright Scholar, on dozens of titles, including classics like Chicka Chicka 1,2,3. Their April 2022 release, Armadillo Antics, was integral to the deal, and the additional books involved are set to launch Summer 2022 through Spring 2023.
WHO'S THE BUYER? The world's sixth largest publisher acquired the rights to all four upcoming releases from Sampson and co.
SO, WHAT'S IT WORTH? We can't disclose specifics . . . but the deal secured a six-figure advance that exceeded the amount Scholastic paid for the Harry Potter series!
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