The Rights Battle that Never Went Away Hachette Book Group’s hard line on English-language rights in continental Europe — in which Tim Hely Hutchinson has decreed that the UK division will export to the rest of Europe exclusively whenever an author is shared with the American lines — has drawn viral protest in a letter to the company from the managing director of Portugese distributor Lisa, Karl Heinz Petzler. Petzler declares that the decision “only shows that the people inside your group who made this decision… do not really care about their customers, but also do not care about their […]
