#Publishing

Over several months, shelling destroyed up to 15 million Ukrainian books, including around 9% of new textbooks. Publishers Vivat, Nash Format and BookChef warn of an inevitable price rise due to shrinking print runs and rising logistics costs.

The publisher A-Ba-Ba-Ga-La-Ma-Ga is finding a new warehouse after its destruction on the night of August 28 and hopes to resume order shipments next week. On the same night, the Vivat warehouse in Sviatopetrivske burned down.

The «Ranok» publishing house in Kharkiv will need three to five years to recover after a Russian strike that destroyed warehouses containing millions of textbooks. The company is launching an anti-crisis plan: reprinting 620,000 books, implementing cost-saving measures, and establishing new logistics.

📚 **Global Book Buyout for AI**: Bookstores worldwide are receiving anomalous orders for used books. The cause is a 2025 US court ruling that legalized the use of books for training neural networks. 🤖 📉 **Market in Shock**: Orders cover everything—from Latin to westerns. But there is a dark side: some books are destroyed after digitization. What do collectors think, and how will this affect culture?

🚨 On the night of August 16, the office of the 'Nash Format' publishing house in Kyiv was destroyed during a Russian missile attack. Walls were blown out, and the ceiling was damaged. This is not the first blow to the company: a warehouse was destroyed in 2025. There were no fatalities, but the market in Pochaina burned down.