We’ve said it since it the United Kingdom first voted to exit the European Union in mid-2016 and now for the first time a UK-based trade publishing executive is saying it out loud, on the record. When Britain completes its withdrawal from the EU, expected to begin in 2019, UK publishers face losing their exclusive domain over exporting English-language books to continental Europe. Bloomsbury chief executive Nigel Newton (who is American but based in London) tells the Guardian: “Quite often now, a British publisher of a work will have exclusive rights in Europe – because Britain is part of Europe. […]
