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The problem of narrations being unavailable due to rights restrictions has been a problem from the very early days when Books on Tape was bought out by a publisher and changed the distribution model. More recently, there's been an amalgamation of audio publishers as smaller publishers have been bought out (sometimes only a single country's rights) by the larger ones. Where we used to have a dozen or more viable publishers, we now have a handful (and that's being generous.)
The Aubrey/Maturin saga is a prime example. I bought the Patrick Tull versions years ago (started when they were on BoT), and continued to buy them as they became available. Then, suddenly, the only ones available were the Simon Vance ones, and the vastly inferior Ric Jerome ones. Then, suddenly, the Simon Vance ones were unavailable, and the Patrick Tull ones were once again available. (The Simon Vance ones are still available through OverDrive, last I looked.)
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