Yes, rights have traditionally been sold on a geographic basis... now an outdated mode but one with a massive overhead of existing contracts...
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Originally Posted by david_e
Please forgive my ignorance on this subject (still rather new to the entire e-book experience and all it entails) but is this because of copyright laws? For example, a US based publisher only owning the rights to publish the book in the US and no other publisher being able to acquire the rights for international sale until a certain length of time has expired?
This is the only idea I could think of at this exceptionally early hour.
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