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Regarding geographical issues,
Authors assign geographic rights to publishers. A publisher with, say, North American rights, has paid for those rights. If a publisher selling out of, say, India with India-only rights were to sell in the US, he'd essentially be selling something he didn't own. In contrast, if a corporation goes to Mexico and hires Mexican workers, he's buying something that the sellers legally own. As consumers, of course, we are free to look for that 'made in the USA' label. It isn't the same, however, when it comes to rights-based sales.
Rob Preece
BooksForABuck.com
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