The Dr. Seuss Empire Is Only Getting Bigger After Discontinued Books Send Sales Soaring

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Brandt brought Seuss to Netflix, which turned the classic 50-wordinto a big-budget animated series. Season Two is currently in production there. That helped lead to a deal with Warner Bros. Pictures to make two films based on All of the TV and movie projects are still a go, despitebeing cited in the study as transmitting racist imagery, including the use of blackface stereotypes.

Presumably that’s the real reason why Seuss Enterprises preemptively self-canceled the books—to protect its other valuable intellectual property. After all, the company will collect seven-figure checks for the rights to use the source material in the films, plus bonuses depending on box-office performance Seuss has also taken live entertainment by storm: Once the world opens up again, the traveling Dr. Seuss exhibit will continue.

As for the soaring sales of his titles? Book sales made up more than $16 million of Seuss’ earnings last year. Even with six fewer titles in his catalog in 2021, expect that number to grow bigger than the Grinch’s heart.

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Forbes out here fueling the fire by saying their cancelled

They were not “canceled” Just a lazy, misleading Fox News style headline

How much your *out of print* Dr. Seuss books are worth now. Fixed that headline for you!

canceled

Good! This makes me happy.

The cancel culture should cancel themselves...haters, anti white racists that they are

nais 👏 | this would make an awesome NFT collection

this is terrible news

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