| Sumario: | The article focuses on the competition between British and the U.S. publishers. Sparks flew in Washington D.C. last month, as festering antagonisms over the issue of exclusive European rights surfaced at Book-Expo America. British publishers stand accused by their U.S. counterparts of a "land grab" in continental Europe. U.S. publishers, in turn, are criticized by the British for their America-centric view of the world. Hostilities are at an all-time high, as Great Britain struggles to prevent an influx of cheap U.S. editions breaching its crumbling defenses, and the U.S. resists being denied entry to the lucrative European book market.
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