Book Industry News on the Coronavirus Pandemic
The book industry is experiencing rapid change and unprecedented market response to the COVID-19 crisis. Bookstores, libraries, and universities are closed; trade publishers are cutting staff and freezing salaries; and university presses are scrambling to digitize their backlists and reschedule fall publications. To keep our authors and stakeholders up-to-date with these frequent, often daily, changes for scholarly publishers, the University of Notre Dame Press is collecting media highlights to keep you informed on how this global pandemic will affect university press operations today and in the future.
The University of Notre Dame Press, the largest Catholic university press in the world, publishes academic and general interest books that engage the most enduring questions of our time. Our staff remains committed to maintaining an innovative and sustainable publishing program that makes accessible the ideas of today’s leading experts while fostering the next generation of scholars and thinkers. Although the world is confronted by an increasing number of imposing challenges, our books and authors are a powerful force for good in the world.


COVID-19 and Book Publishing: Impacts and Insights for 2021
-The Future of Publishing 1/5/21
As We Zoom Toward the Holidays, Think About Books
-Star Tribune 11/20/20
Harvard Book Store Announces Short-Term Closing After Staff Member Tests Positive for Covid-19
-Cambridge Day, 11/11/20
Your Local Bookstore Wants You to Know That It’s Struggling
-The New York Times 10/15/20
How the book industry is weathering the COVID 19 storm
-Boston Globe 9/17/20
Printer Jam: Serious Supply Issues Disrupt the Book Industry’s Fall Season
-The New York Times 8/27/20
The New York Times Book Review in Quarantine
-The New York Times 7/19/20
Notre Dame Press Receives NEH Cares Grant
-ND Press News 6/23/20
As London Bookstores Reopen, Eager Readers Return
-The New York Times 6/17/20
AAP Files Suit Against Internet Archive
-AAP 6/1/20
AAP Files Suit Against Internet Archive
-AAP 6/1/20
Notre Dame Press Expands Digital Book Availability for the Notre Dame Community
-ND Press News 5/1/20
The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Changing How People Buy Books
-Wired 4/27/20
Should You Keep Working on That Book Manuscript?
-The Chronicle of Higher Education 4/20/20
Notre Dame Press Offers Expanded Access to Ebooks in Response to Coronavirus Pandemic
-ND Press News 4/3/20
They Were Meant to Be the Season’s Big Books. Then the Virus Struck.
-The New York Times 3/27/20
Is the Covid-19 Crisis a Watershed Moment for Library E-books?
-Publishers Weekly 3/27/20
How the coronavirus will change book publishing, now and forever
-Chicago Tribune 3/25/20
How you can support bookstores during the coronavirus pandemic
-Lit Hub 3/16/20