The financial results of the four publicly held book publishers that recently reported on their first quarters all revealed the same pattern: sales were solid until the spread of the coronavirus forced most physical bookstores and schools to close. "Sales were fairly good for the first two months of the year and then dropped off in mid-March," said Carolyn Reidy, CEO of Simon & Schuster.
For Publishers, It's Still the Calm Before the Storm
11 May 2020
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