<h1>Commercial inventory damage and business interruption after unprecedented rainfall threaten College Street publishers; Guild assessing collective losses.</h1> Publishers and booksellers on College Street suffered widespread damage to inventory and business interruption from an unprecedented heavy downpour. The Publishers and Booksellers Guild is assessing collective losses and individual proprietors report extensive destruction of printed stock ready for binding; the Guild will finalise damage appraisals after the festival and is seeking support for small shops, with uncertainty about effects on the next International Kolkata Book Fair.