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Originally Posted by dmikov
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?
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That's an interesting question. Lots of books have different titles in the US and UK (in fact you have to watch out that you don't buy 2 copies!), but I don't know whether the insides are ever different in terms of editing etc.
In another thread, someone said that it was more common to sell to one publisher who then sold on the rights to other regions, which would avoid duplicated effort, but this isn't always the case.