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Originally Posted by tompe
It is also the publishers fault because they do not offer enough money for world wide rights to make it rational for an author to sell world wide rights to one publisher. I would say that it is mostly the publishers fault here. Why should the author choose an alternative that gives him less money?
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And why should the publisher pay extra for rights they can't exploit? If they buy world rights for a book they're going to have to resell print rights for areas they don't service. All it's going to do is drive costs up for everyone.