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Originally Posted by SleepyBob
Well, they do decide to enter a contract where they don't have those rights, rather than pay what they must to be able to sell the work worldwide.
Existing works are one thing. But now, they don't have the excuse for new contracts that they didn't know they might want world-wide publishing rights in the current environment.
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How many authors have the power to dictate such rights anyway? Unless you're a best-seller, you pretty much have to take what you can get. Most authors probably offer "North American" rights only because every guide on how to pitch to publishers I've ever read seems to say this is how you do it.
Most publishers of p-books could say "Hey, thanks for your submission. You can have 5c per book we sell and we get international printing rights" and most authors trying to get into the market would say "Great! Thankyou!".
Hmmm. Even E-book publishers could probably get away with that, but it's kind of moot.
Anyway, if it didn't suit the publishers, I'm sure they would have done away with regional restrictions long ago.
David.