Amazon Studios Options Its First Novel, Seed, For A Crowdsourced, Big-Screen Adaptation

Films of books can often help drive sales of those books, and bestsellers often make for movie blockbusters, so it’s no surprise to see online bookseller Amazon today announcing that its content development arm, Amazon Studios, has optioned its first novel, the Amazon-published, Southern horror Seed, to begin making a big-screen adaptation. As with other content optioned by Amazon Studios — comic Blackburn Burrow being the most recent example — Amazon will use crowdsourced user feedback to decide how it adapts the book.