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Originally Posted by pdurrant
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.
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Naturally, it's weird when an author does sell in a certain country in one form using a certain publisher, but you can't buy the other form from that same publisher in that same country...
Which proves, those rights are a mess...