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My own wee house's author agreements, Wintermute, always include digital rights. Some authors and agencies retain those rights, though, and market them on a country-specific basis.
We're just now experimenting with our first ebook-only titles, in this case, we're not able to offer print copies in several countries even if we want to (exceptions are usually mainland China and Down Under).
Sometimes, you see, the publisher's hands are tied by contractual obligation to the author and/or agent.
The big new ebook stores -- rather than go to the admin trouble of sorting one from t'other -- tend to impose geographical restrictions even when (as we always do) a publisher has full international rights and neither needs nor wants such padlocks.
And they do the same with DRM imposition, which we stridenly oppose. All we can do is to advise folks to buy from our own site for zero geographical restriction and -- if they buy from a third-party retailer who's slapped DRM on a book of ours -- offer a free non-DRM copy to make up for it and to make our own small protest against this nefarious racket.
Cheers. Neil
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