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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
Actually, I think it's the opposite. The authors/agents sell only certain rights to certain publishers. So a UK publisher gets to make the money from a JD Robb release, rather than an American publisher getting all the income. For example.
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Precisely. This whole geographical restriction business started when a UK publisher threatened legal action because books to which they had the UK publication rights were being offered for sale to UK customers by US bookstores.