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Originally Posted by Direct Ebooks
It is much more profitable currently for authors and their agents to sell their right to the highest bidder in each territory rather than to one publisher for worldwide rights. It is then up to the individual publisahers as to whether they make the books available in eBook formats.
This may not change anytime soon as the industry is so used to this model. What we may have though, is savvy authors selling the digital rights to their books to an internet based publiaher or retaining them for non-exclusive distribution themselves.
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Another option would be for authors to require ebooks to be published as part of any deal they sign, at least it would ensure people could get to read the books they wanted even if they may not get the best pricing.