Anita Bensoussane wrote:The company was deeply in debt.
I guess Enid Blyton can't be quite so profitable after all.
Is there any idea yet of what's going to happen to Enid Blyton's works? (Those articles in the search you linked to, Anita, don't seem to mention that more than passingly.) I'm just wondering what the implications of this are for Enid Blyton's books, and whether this is more likely to be good or bad. Should we worry about the possibility mentioned of being taken over by "foreign interests". I somehow feel Britain is the natural home of Enid Blyton's work, and it would be better for British interests to have the rights. (I'm not sure if that really makes a difference, and maybe it's just an irrational emotional feeling I have.)
What *normally* happens to an author's works after the author dies? (That is, assuming the works are successful enough to continue, because I imagine that, for many authors, the answer is, "The books die, go out of print, and get completely forgotten".) If they are not controlled by a company like Chorion, what other options happen sometimes?
How much are the Blyton rights likely to sell for? I don't suppose there'd be any chance of members of Blyton's family buying them, or other organizations with an interest in Enid Blyton's work that goes beyond the mere profit-making? I guess it would be in the millions - not something E.B.S. members could chip in for, and buy up between them.
(I didn't know whether to start a new topic for this, or continue here. I almost started a new one; but I've stayed here, since several posts discussing Chorion have already appeared here.)
Regards, Michael.