Publication dates

 The pandemic has affected everything in life, including supply chains and, as an aspect of that, publication dates. Several times I've sat down to post a review for a book I read several months ago, only to find out that the book's release date has been pushed back a few weeks or months.

Given what I've been reading on twitter recently about the number of editors and other publishing industry personnel leaving their jobs, we may face more delays in the future. I suspect that the publishing industry will need to change - in a lot of ways - if it wants to survive as a business. And having larger publishing houses swallow up all the smaller ones isn't going to fix what appear to be real systemic problems in the industry.