The reason is that Johan Svedjedal no longer believes in the current management's ability to conduct its core business.
- What you can do as a board member is to suggest alternatives, argue and reserve oneself. But if the focus is one that you cannot stand behind, it is difficult to remain, he says to the Swedish Bookstore.
Recently, the publisher Stephen Farran-Lee left Nature & Culture for another publisher, and in December, Natur & Kultur announced that ten services would disappear due to a declining market for all three publishers - general literature, teaching materials and academic.