Many Paper Mills In Europe and The United States are Also In Trouble Due to Insufficient Supply, Which Will Cause Their Paper Production to Remain Low For a Long Time.

Some university presses in North America and Europe say their printing schedules are now taking at least twice as long as in the past, forcing them to change their publishing schedules, choose a different type of paper and use more expensive custom presses.

Tim Jones, director of design and publishing at Harvard University Press, said that the time it takes for a book to go from print to shelf has gone from eight weeks in the past to 16 weeks now, and the cost of printing it has also increased. From 11% in the past to 15% now

Princeton University Press publishes about 250 new scholarly books a year, but since the start of the year, as many as 40 percent of the press's new books have been pushed back, and to remedy it, it has had to use different types of paper and custom printing presses , but all of this leads to an increase in cost.

The paper industry is the third-largest industrial energy consumer in the EU. Before the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the EU paper industry was already affected by rising electricity costs. Shortly after the Russian-Ukrainian conflict broke out, many Italian paper mills were overwhelmed by the energy shockwave caused by the conflict - they were forced to stop production altogether.