My editor has already informed me that my book which was slated for a June release...is being pushed back into late August. And every manuscript deadline has been hit...
It’s a book! Not a movie, toy, or essential.
From their prospective (book publisher, either paper or digital)...they are concerned over customers having cash to spend on ‘extras’.
I would offer this observation. Around 2008, a bunch of folks suddenly had low cash flow, and one of the top twenty things hit....was magazine sales. Up until that point, most families had five or six magazines minimum...arriving monthly or weekly. Suddenly, everyone cut drastically, and subscription levels have never returned to the previous expectations.