As publishers in many parts of the world look for avenues in which their content can find more digital life-and profit-the international video streaming platforms clearly are gaining rapidly in importance.
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (Penguin Random House/Anchor), of course, is a good example of the book-to-platform pathway, having been developed by Bruce Miller with Atwood into a 33-episode, three-season series that put a 1985 novel on the 21st-century map-with entirely new content developed in the latter part of the series to keep the cinematic edition going.