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Originally Posted by Quexos
That is strange, why would any given author want to limit the sales of their books by selling it in one country and not another ?
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Because until very recently, ebook sales have been an insignificant part of an author's income, and selling regionally restricted print rights (with regionally restricted ebook rights as a bundle) made the author more money. Giving one publisher regional print rights but world ebook rights might have prevented lucrative sales of print rights in other places.
Hopefully this will be changing, but it'll be a long process.