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Originally Posted by Argel
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.
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Well yes, and some authors are doing exactly that, like Stephen Covy, but with MacMillan attempting to control pricing then it's is, while still possible, less likely that Amazon in particular would be able to accomplish this.