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Old 10-15-2010, 03:37 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I'm afraid I still think you have it back to front. It's the authors who offer the restrictive contracts to the publishers, not vice versa. A world-wide publisher such as, say, Penguin, would like nothing better than to acquire world-wide rights to a book, but very often the author holds out for, say, separate UK and US rights because they can make more money that way.
The average author writes their own contract? I honestly don't know, but that's not what I would have guessed.
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