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Copyrights can get very complicated. They can get spread around various owners over a series, and some of those owners may not be interested in publishing, and/or may have unrealistic demands for publishing in electronic format. For example, the popular Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski was very slow in coming to the English world because of copyright issues. It appeared that the original English rights owner was squatting on the copyrights and had no intention of publishing anything; rather they just wanted to sell the rights at a higher price to someone else. It took a while for Gollancz to acquire the rights and start the publishing process.
So, the problem may not be that a publisher is just being weird about a few titles; it may be that those titles belong to someone else.
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