I am interested if it is common for writers to sell their global rights immediately or if it's just rights for the US at first or are English rights the rights for publishing their book in the English language to be sold worldwide?
I am interested in researching this as I was living abroad the Fall semester and always found it interesting which English language books the book store's foreign or international section had. I found that most bookstores would have a small English language shelf on which would be self help books, memoirs, business books and such and if there was any fiction it would be Dan Brown novels and the like- the sort of popular books you can find at a airport and then kids classics like a boxed Harry Potter Set or something for even younger readers. To summarize: it wasn't exactly contemporary fiction - for that I went to a Independent English language bookstore which had a hodgepodge of discarded novels, offered some new books of specific genres and oddly enough had a very well put together poetry section - I had found out about this store from a recommendation from a book club I had joined and as they put it finding the store and going to the store in itself was an experience. I'm sorry I've gone on a tangent - point is- how do these books end up there? Why do some not so well known books here make it around the world while others perhaps more popular do not?
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