Dwindling paper supplies, skilled labor shortages, limited printing capacity, and heightened awareness of environmental impact have all contributed to the supply chain nightmare for publishers.

S&S CEO Jonathan Karp said that refinements made to its metadata has improved sell-through, boosting the bottom line.

Although PW began as a publication for the trade, with the arrival of the web, its audience has grown to include avid book readers and the public.

“We learned we were more adaptable than we knew,” Michael Pietsch told the annual meeting of the Book Industry Study Group, the first such gathering in three years.