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Originally Posted by dickon25
Actually, in the example you're using the most likely result would be that the UK author would sell Commonwealth/EU rights to Random House (which would include Canada) and then sell the US rights separately excluding Canada.
So how come on US retailers like Fictionwise, the restrictions are to US/Can only? I thought they were a region to themselves?
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Because Canada's a special case: they generally get the US editions of US books and the UK editions of UK books. So if the initial sale of rights is to the UK, they'll usually lock down the entire Commonwealth, which includes Canada. US publishers usually grab Canada when they can, too.
US retailers generally say US/Can only because they mostly sell US books, and if the first publication was in the US, they probably bought the Canadian rights. Even so, Canadians do run into a separate set of geographical restrictions at places like FW.
Canadian rights are complicated.