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Originally Posted by Shaggy
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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No; the author (or rather, their agent) attempts (naturally enough) to maximise the income from a book by offering the rights to the book to different publishers in different countries. Two contracts means, for example, two advances. Hence the extremely common situation of different British and American publishers for the same book.