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When you ask publishing insiders to paint a picture of the impact of Brexit, they tend to produce something that looks like Munch’s The Scream. Andrew Franklin, the managing director of Profile, sums it up thus: “The only upside I can see is that broccoli is apparently going to be in shorter supply.” He cites the rising cost of paper and printing, concerns over intellectual property rights, difficulties with exports and the potentially devastating economic effect on the high street bookshops that are so crucial to the trade. But while publishing is far from the only industry that fears the ...