  We investigate the factorization properties of the exclusive electroinduced
two-nucleon knockout reaction $A(e,e'pN)$. A factorized expression for the
cross section is derived and the conditions for factorization are studied. The
$A(e,e'pN)$ cross section is shown to be proportional to the conditional
center-of-mass (c.m.) momentum distribution for close-proximity pairs in a
state with zero relative orbital momentum and zero radial quantum number. The
width of this conditional c.m. momentum distribution is larger than the one
corresponding with the full c.m. momentum distribution. It is shown that the
final-state interactions (FSIs) only moderately affect the shape of the
factorization function for the $A(e,e'pN)$ cross sections. Another prediction
of the proposed factorization is that the mass dependence of the $A(e,e'pp)$
$[A(e,e'pn)]$ cross sections is much softer than $\frac{Z(Z-1)}{2}$ $[NZ]$.
