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The article informs that integrated sales and operations planning can help publishers deal with manufacturing and distribution issue. It mentions supply chain whiplash effect can be addressed only by building a closer relationship among all supply chain participants, especially publishers, printers, paper mills, and transportation companies.

The article discusses the growing market for gift books and the process of publishing gift books. Topics include how gift books are designed with aesthetics such as paper quality, embellishments, and foil, as well as editorial content in mind, why publishers want gift books to be sold in physical stores and focus on gift books that can be sold in retail stores other than bookstores, and the popularity of gift cookbooks such as "Tequila Sunrise" by Tim Federle.

The article offers news briefs on the book industry in the U.S. as of August 22, 2016. Bookstore sales increased by 6.1 percent to 5.44 billion U.S. dollars in the first half of 2016. "New York Times Book Review" editor Pamela Paul has expanded her role to include all book coverage for the paper. Online reading and writing community Wattpad has launched the advertising revenue program Futures for writers.

The article reports on the debut of tie-ins to the movie adaptations of "The Girl in the Spider's Web," the first Lisbeth Salander novel written by David Lagercrantz, at number nine in trade paper and number 20 in mass market, in October 2018.

A chart is presented that lists the best-selling books for the week of April 13, 2015, including "The Girl on the Train," by Paula Hawkins, "Paper Towns," by John Green and "I've Got You Under My Skin," by Mary Higgins Clark.