the uk publishers associations recently shared a study which examined the effect books had on the other arts particularly theatre film and tvthe study was commissioned by the publishers associations and produced by frontier economics titled publishings contribution to the wider creative industries the paper explored how movies tv shows and plays based on books did compared to those not based on books and how their success impacted the book they studied the top 20 by domestic box office gross ukproduced films in the decade 2007 2016 and found 43 of them were based on books with a further 9 based on comic books in short published material is the basis of 52 of top uk films in the last 10 years and accounts for an even higher share of revenue from these leading performers at 61 of uk box office gross and 65 of worldwide gross the study clearly stated that movies based on books did far better than those not book adaptations historically earn 44 more money in the uk an extra 54m per film and 53 more globally an extra 91m per film than films based on original screenplayson their examination of tv shows based on books however the found that they had a 56 larger share of the audience than original scripts according to information received from the four major freetoair uk tv networks between 2013 and 2017 they also noted that shows based on a literary source have received 25 of the best drama bafta awards and 57 of the relevant emmy winson studying books impact on theatre they found that the top 4 longestrunning shows in the west end are all based on literary sources and that bookbased family musicals make 23 times more money on average than originals plays based on books make 28 times more than original playsthey even studied the impact of these adaptations on the original books and found that they vastly helped in book sales in their case study of daphne du mauriers thriller my cousin rachel they found that after it was adapted into a movie in 2017 the sales of the book increased substantially the sales of the book in 2017 alone accounted for nearly a quarter 23 of all sales since 1992 both in terms of copies and of revenue the study statedtheatre too can help boost book sales and even help keep books in print as they found with the war horsewar horse is one of author michael morpurgos early works published in 1982 and sales were very modest initially the report said some of his later works became much better known and in fact war horse itself was at danger of not being kept in cyclethe book had sold 16000 copies across several editions accounting for 88000 in sales in 2005 and 2006 combined it then went on to sell 23000 copies for 135000 in 2007 alone nine years after the first stage adaptation the book was still selling well with 20000 copies