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Originally Posted by darryl
I very much doubt that it is authors who drive regional rights, though they no doubt make the most of this doomed distribution model while it exists. Quite frankly I don't know how common it is for a Publisher to buy the rights to an author's work for one region only, leaving the author free to themselves sell the rights in other regions, perhaps after the book becomes a bestseller. Certainly, what I know of how the Big 5 work leads me to doubt that this is a common practice.
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I think it's actually pretty common. An awful lot of books have different UK and US publishers, leading to the common situation of an eBook being available in the US but not the UK, or vice versa. Eg, David Eddings' work has been available in eBook form in the UK for a long time, but many of his books aren't available as eBooks in the US, because the publishers are different. This is definitely something that's driven by authors (or their agents), not publishers. It's purely financial.