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Originally Posted by Kolenka
Having to deal with geographic restrictions is a money sink. Publishers either see more benefit than cost doing it this way, or there's actual legal issues involved with selling in multiple geographic regions.
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Authors want to (or course) maximize their potential earnings for their work. As a result authors & their agents offer the rights to specific regions to publishers in those regions. They've traditionally made more money this way than selling worldwide rights that may not get exercised everywhere depending on if a publisher has a local branch and distrobution channels (and ebooks rights are generally tied to print rights).