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The article informs that children's book buyers are facing supply chain disruptions as shortage of papers cause printing delays, along with increased shipping costs and other delivery issues. Meghan Goel, children's book buyer at BookPeople in Austin, Texas, ordered more books last fall than ever before as children's inventory is a spike in online preorders that began at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. INSET: Supply Chain Issues Hit Sidelines, Too.

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 focuses on Scribd, a digital subscription reading and listening platform, that offers a vast library of content, including e-books, magazines, academic papers, and original documents. Topics include it started commissioning original works with Mueller's War by Garrett Graff; the focus had been on nonfiction but it had also published nonfictions; and it is experimenting with releasing more and more titles through third-party distribution.

The article reports on the efforts of the book industry to promote environmental sustainability. Topics discussed include the environmental policy that publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has adopted in 2014, the forest management practices of paper producers, such as Boise/Packaging Corp. of America (PCA), Domtar and Georgia-Pacific, and the steps that book publishers can take to reduce the industry's impact on the environment.

The article discusses several deals related to the transfer of publishing rights. Topics discussed include purchase of the U.S. rights to Tina Brown's "The Palace Papers," by Gillian Blake, purchase of Olivie Blake's "The Atlas Six," which is self-published by Tor in a U.S. rights agreement and purchase of world rights to "The Cloisters" by Katy Hays by Atria Books.

The article discusses the report "Book Industry Environmental Trends 2016" issued by the Book Industry Environmental Council (BIEC) on the sustainability efforts of the U.S. publishing industry. Topics covered include obstacles facing publishers in their efforts to improve on their environmental practices, the lack of available recycled paper as the biggest challenge facing the industry, and the reasons cited by the report for the decline in the use of recycled paper.

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 that the 2006 trade paper edition of the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel has sold more than two lakh copies.