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Originally Posted by kennyc
That has gone out the window with the MacMillan take-over.
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Not at all - it's perfectly within the rights of an author to negotiate separate rights for paper and electronic - or to threaten to. It would be the blockbusters who would have to blaze the trail because they have market power. If Dan Brown were to sell ebook rights separately on a world-wide availability basis, that would still leave publishers falling over each other for the rights to paper editions in their own territories.
In fact if Dan Brown were even to hint that he was thinking of separating the rights, publishers would be falling over themselves to offer deals which would include non-territorial sales.