Frankfurt Book Fair organizers are looking at ways of combining real world and virtual experiences to provide an event that will be valuable, "not only to those who have come to the fair in the past, but even those who have never been to Frankfurt before."

Has there ever been a time when academic research received more attention?

No one can own the law, explained US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

In nature, the coronavirus is smaller than a dust particle but its effect on both individual health and society at large is massive. The abrupt halt to all but essential businesses that has shuttered bookstores and libraries is leading to catastrophe for authors and others creators in book publishing.

"Nobody was ready for [the pandemic]. It’s almost impossible to be ready for something of this nature. But if you have a really healthy organization, and you have caring leadership at the top, usually you get through it," says Bill Baker, president emeritus of Channel Thirteen in New York and co-author with Michael O’Malley of "Organizations for People."

The value of public libraries is rarely questioned in times of crisis, but this crisis is different because it strikes at the very foundation on which the modern public library rests.

“One thing about Indians is that they really work well when it comes to adversity, and that has been the case even across the country when it comes to the crisis, and the way the crisis has been managed by the government,” says Vikas Gupta of Wiley India.

Symptoms publishers are suffering from the COVID-19 crisis incliude headaches over sinking revenues and lost orders and gut-wrenching pain from layoffs and canceled projects.

Book publishing has long been a collaborative business and that aspect of the industry will be needed more than ever now. Every segment will have to fight through the disruptions caused by this crisis.

“There was a really important moment in my own battle against Castleman disease,” Dr. Fajgenbaum says. “I went from hoping that things would work out and hoping that someone else would figure out a drug, to wanting to turn my hope into action.”