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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 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.