Tuesday, February 21, 2012  Selling Territories Publisher
Doesn't Have The Rights To  STATUS: Have morning chai, will
work.  What’s playing on the XM or iPod right now? LET LOVE RULE
by Lenny Kravitz  Late last week, I got an email from a client
asking why her latest release wasn't available as an eBook in
the UK. Bemused, I emailed her to say that we had only sold
North American rights to her US publisher and hadn't done a
subrights deal for that territory as of yet. The US publisher
didn't have the right to make its edition available in Great
Britain. In fact, there shouldn't be any edition of her book
being sold in that territory.  She then sent me a link to
amazon.uk where her US book was clearly for sale.  Well, that
made her question make a whole lot more sense. No wonder she was
confused.  The point of my post? As authors, you should randomly
check bookseller sites abroad and if something pops up, then you
need to inform your agent and he/she needs to track it down.
Because the US publisher didn't have