Indigenous CS

Permission can be secured from HCI for the foreign publishers of the CS series to publish a « local » edition for their respective markets, eg.

CS FOR THE GERMAN SOUL or French or Italian or Spanish or Russian

CS FOR THE LATIN AMERICAN SOUL or Mexican or Argentinian

CS FOR THE SLOVAK SOUL or Czech or Hungarian or Polish

CS FOR THE KOREAN SOUL or Japanese or Indonesian or Chinese

CS FOR THE DUTCH SOUL or Greek or Norwegian or Portuguese, etc., etc.

Such a book with a strong local flavor could become a very successful addition to the CS series and even provide new impetus to sales in the marketplace. A call for new stories can be made using the back pages of regular CS titles in any given territory or a contest can be run through advertising carried in other CS books or through other media.

A reduced royalty will be accepted for such a license to cover use of the brand name and the format developped in the CS series making it possible to compensate local contributors. A local personnality (author or motivator) can be enrolled to endorse or sponsor the book.

The production of such an "indigenous" CS title can create a lot of interest in the market place and in the medias.  Such books have been produced already in Turkish and in French.

From the time you announce the project and launch a call for stories to the time the book is finally published you would have generated a lot of coverage in the medias and a lot of interest with the readers. Stories could be collected on the internet or in bookstores.

The idea is to get everyone connected with the promotion, distribution and selling of the books excited about the project and of course the readers who will find it fun to stand the chance to be published.

Such a project can be used effectively to revive a CS series after a few years.

For more information read on: HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN SOUP

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Graphic Novelizations

This is an outstanding developpement and addition to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.  

I-RE PUBLISHING of Seoul, the main Chicken Soup for the Soul publisher in Korea, has developped a completely new and innovative concept by publishing Chicken Soup for the Soul stories in "comic strip" form.   Such graphic novelization is the fastest growing category in publishing at the moment.

Health Communications, Inc. has granted I-RE PUBLISHING the permission to go ahead and develop three Chicken Soup for the Soul  Graphic Novelizations based on

• A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul
• A 3 rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul
• A 4 th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul

MONTREAL-CONTACTS/THE RIGHTS AGENCY has been appointed along with INTER-KO CORPORATION of Seoul to handle all foreign language licencing for this new property on behalf of I-RE PUBLISHING with the full approval of HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS, INC., which means that foreign publishers will be able to acquire this new product in their respective territories in the normal manner.    

For additional details click on CS Graphic Rendition.  

You can also preview right now one of the stories entitled THE CIRCUS by Dan Clark in its Graphic Rendition form by visiting: Chicken Soup for the Soul Graphic Novalization sample

This is a real opportunity for the CS publishers not only to inject new blood in their CS series but also to develop a new sub-series of graphic novelizations of Chicken Soup for the Soul stories.

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CS as educational tool

Some educational publishers have turned out bilingual books for the teaching of English as a second language at the secondary and college levels. Five such textbooks have been licenced in Korea and three in Japan, with or without audio-cassettes. For covers and specifications of these various textbooks, click on the individual covers. Let us know if you'd like to get more details or sample copies.

Chicken Soup for the Soul (2) – Kinseido, Tokyo, Japan

The Magic of Love – Nan’un-Do, Tokyo, Japan

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul (1 and 2) – Siat Publishing, Seoul, Korea

Chicken Soup for the College Soul (1 and 2) – Siat Publishing, Seoul, Korea

Prep 2 – Chicken Soup Starter – Chung Dahm Institute, Seoul, Seoul, Korea

Chicken Soup for the English Learner – Chung Dahm Institute, Seoul, Korea

Chicken Soup Letters – Chung Dahm Institute, Seoul, Korea

Stories to Warm Your Heart –Macmillan Languagehouse, Tokyo, Japan

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CDs piggybacked or stand alone

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