The Bookseller - News - Daunt hails ‘wonderfully robust’ market but predicts book prices will rise due to costs 

Speaking to an audience alongside Bookshop.org's Nicole Vanderbilt at the Independent Publishers Guild's (IPG) Spring Conference on Monday 27th February, Daunt said: "I think we are generally [in agreement] on this side of the Atlantic, and I think I can safely speak for at least my European colleagues, in saying that we've all come out of the pandemic in a dramatically better shape than we could have ever expected as we entered it, with the market wonderfully robust."

However, he said "pricing and inflation generally is a problem", telling delegates: "You, everyone in this room, I'm sure will be looking at your paper prices, looking at freight costs and looking at labour. And thinking that everything doesn't add up at the moment-certainly for us, we have an expectation that it is going to drive book prices up."