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Old 10-25-2012, 01:38 PM   #75
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
Authors want to (or course) maximize their potential earnings for their work. As a result authors & their agents offer the rights to specific regions to publishers in those regions. They've traditionally made more money this way than selling worldwide rights that may not get exercised everywhere depending on if a publisher has a local branch and distrobution channels (and ebooks rights are generally tied to print rights).
That's a fair point.

I think it's still fair to say that the complexities involved here emerge from a complicated environment, and folks in the chain trying to minimize their exposure to legal troubles that can arise from that complicated environment. It's not ideal, and I am not sure you would find many people who disagree, but there's not really a good solution here other than even bigger publishers that have the resources to sell everywhere in the world... which itself isn't exactly ideal.
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