Norway: impact of COVID-19 on book publishers 2020

Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) oubreak, most of the Norwegian book publishers are financially negative affected. This is the result of a weekly survey among member companies of the Norwegian Publishers Association (Forleggerforeningen). In week 16 of 2020, half of surveyed publishers said that they already laid off employees, which was an increase compared to the previous weeks. Additionally, 80 percent of respondents stated to have postponed their book releases.

Consequences for book publishers due to the coronavirus outbreak in Norway in 2020

Characteristic	As of March 31	As of April 8	As of April 22
Financially negative or strongly negative affected	90%	90%	90%
Limit their business	63%	66%	80%
Laid off employees	30%	40%	50%
Planning layoffs	23%	15%	10%
Have stopped releases	-	30%	50%
Postponed releases	-	70%	80%

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Release date

April 2020

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Region

Norway

Survey time period

Weeks 13-16, 2020

Number of respondents

15 respondents*

Special properties

Member companies of Forleggerforeningen (Norwegian Publishers Association)

Supplementary notes

* Note that the most recent figures are based on responses from only 15 publishers, compared to 27 before Easter, and thus have a considerable margin of error.

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