The distributor Speed ​​group handles millions of books every year, and manages book deliveries to a number of Swedish publishers, including Bonnierförlagen and Norstedts.

On September 21, the company was exposed to an IT attack, something that Swedish Bookstore was the first to report.

Speed ​​has several warehouses in different locations in Sweden and the IT attack meant that all systems were down and many deliveries were delayed.

Since then, they have been working on restoring the systems, says Camilla Parneving, communications & marketing manager at Speed.

At the end of the week, it will be up and running at full capacity, she estimates.

How many books have been delayed?

- We do not have an exact figure.

It is clear that there have been delays, but we have tried to work manually and minimize the impact, she says.

After the IT attack, deliveries of books to the Book Fair in Gothenburg were prioritized.

- It's problematic when books don't get out to retailers.

But we still breathed a sigh of relief when we realized that we had received all the books that were going to the Book Fair, says Olle Lidbom, communications manager at Norstedts.

"Has had quite an impact"

The online bookstore Adlibris is one of the retailers affected when there was a stop in deliveries.

- It has affected quite a lot.

We are usually very quick to be able to deliver books from our largest publishers the day after the customer has placed their order.

Now we have had to wait for books from the biggest publishers for just over a week.

It is of course unfortunate, says Sakari Luovio, spokesperson at Adlibris.

It is difficult to say how large volumes of books are "stuck in the system".

- Yesterday we received a huge delivery from Speed ​​with over 20 pallets of books, which corresponds to thousands of books.

We have brought in extra staff to ensure that we get the books out as quickly as possible.

We are in the middle of getting all the books out to our customers and at the beginning of the week I have high hopes that we will have solved the large bulk, says Sakari Luovio.