Amazon Studios Options First Novel

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 3, 2012– (NASDAQ:AMZN) — Amazon Studios, the original content arm ofAmazon.com, Inc., has optioned the rights to author Ania Ahlborn’s popular horror novel SEED – a top seller of 47North – the science fiction, fantasy, and horror imprint ofAmazon Publishing.

Amazon Studios has added the project to its development slate and will begin testing various big screen adaptations of the spine-tingling Southern gothic suspense tale of an ordinary man with a demon on his bac...