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About authors selling worldwide rights:
It doesn't make any sense to sell worldwide rights to a publisher whose distribution is solely in the USA (or elsewhere). If they aren't going to translate the book and if they don't have sales reps making the rounds of bookstores in, say, Belgium, why would you sell them Belgian rights?
Of course, that's the old print model. With ebooks, it makes more sense to sell language-based rights. Unless a publisher is going to translate the book into, say, Korean, why sell them the Korean language rights? On the other hand, with maybe a million Koreans in the USA, you wouldn't want to limit Korean language sales to Korea.
Anyone should be able to buy in any geographical area, and they should be able to buy in the language of their choice. All the author would control would be to whom he/she sells the language rights.
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