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Originally Posted by pietvo
But how can an author make more money by not selling to certain countries? Because that's what we are talking about.
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Marketing.
If they only sell worldwide rights to a US publisher, while the book may be available internationally it's not going to have any sort of marketing push behind that. Some international bookstores might order a couple of copies, but not many.
If they sell NA and European rights separately, their UK publisher is not only going to pay the author a second advance for the book (guaranteed money), but there will also be marketing to flog the book in the UK too. (To the bookstores if nothing else, which should lead to wider availability on store shelves.)
However, by splitting the print rights, they also split the ebook rights - and since UK publishers seem to be behind the curve when it comes to ebooks (it looks like Ebury is finally getting their books out day-and-date with the print version, which is better than they managed as recently as May), that means that part of the world can't buy any ebook yet.