Britain | Taking a leaf out of your book

Books are physically changing because of inflation

Rising paper prices are forcing publishers to change

AHJ6E1 Rolls of paper passing through machines Smurfit paper factory, Snodland, UK

The second world war was a hard time for British publishers. Paper imports collapsed; paper started being made from straw; publishers printed only sure-fire hits. New novels were rejected; a history by Winston Churchill went out of print.

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