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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
As I understand it, the author can (and often does) sell the rights to different publishers, each of which covers different territories. If the US publisher releases an e-book, but the UK publisher can't be bothered, you can get the effect that UK customers can see the book on Amazon, but not buy it.
They aren't selling geographical rights to ebooks per se, I suspect, but the ebook rights are being bundled with those for physical books.
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Well another beautiful illustration of money wasteful nature of publishing, for which they want customers to pay citing the costs of books is more then just printing.
All this editing/proofreading/preparation cost they recite like a mantra, done not once, but twice or more times because the same book/manuscript is sold to multiple publishing companies?