True, but trademarks need to be registered, and doing so costs money. (Though probably a negligible amount for a publisher, at least if they believe the work will bring in a lot of money.)
That’s a bit different from copyright which is automatic and free of charge.
But bringing up both things are good points either way.
Which makes me wonder, what happens if I were to write a book and two months later someone decides to rip off the title for their own book, and my publisher decides to trademark the title of my book? Would the trademark application be rejected because someone else used the same title in the intervening time? And if the trademark application was granted, would my publisher be able to demand that the other author/publisher stopped printing their book under the same title, or would they still be allowed to do so because their titling of the book preceded our trademark?
That’s a bit different from copyright which is automatic and free of charge.
But bringing up both things are good points either way.
Which makes me wonder, what happens if I were to write a book and two months later someone decides to rip off the title for their own book, and my publisher decides to trademark the title of my book? Would the trademark application be rejected because someone else used the same title in the intervening time? And if the trademark application was granted, would my publisher be able to demand that the other author/publisher stopped printing their book under the same title, or would they still be allowed to do so because their titling of the book preceded our trademark?