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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Where do these publishers obtain the rights to distribute a work; do they pay the author for that? If so, then why should an author choose to NOT make his books available in a particular country? Doing so will undoubtedly cost him fans, and money.
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Generally, the author would like the works to be available everywhere. Often, the publisher contracts for the right to manage those publications, so the author can't sell them to someone else--and then the publisher doesn't bother looking for sales in places where "the market is too small." So the publisher often has worldwide distribution rights, but refuses to go to the effort of setting up sales in non-English-majority countries, leaving no books available in those places, and no option for the author to find their own sales opportunities.