Will the new Chennai International Book Fair provide the digital boost India’s publishing industry needs?
Actions speak larger than words of course, so we must wait a few weeks to find out just what the...
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Tag: India publishing
India – 1.4 billion people. 833 million online. The Assam Book Fair is underway as western publishing sleeps
India is a hugely exciting market most western publishers seem not to enthuse over. Their loss....
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India: “No technology can diminish the importance of books. Cellphones can be misused but books can never be misused.”
Clearly when Goud says “books can never be misused”, he has never heard of Mein Kampf,...
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India – “Long Night of LiteratureS”speed-dating for books returns this month
Seven years on and this bizarre speed-dating for literature continues to draw crowds. India is of...
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India – JCB Prize for Literature announces 2022’s longlist
Titles in Urdu, Hindi, and Nepali have been featured in the longlist for the first time....
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Indian publishing after the pandemic – “print books have comfortably adapted to digital”
India is only at 54% internet penetration, so the reluctance of some publishers to embrace digital...
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Is the “digital devil” here to stay?
India has 755 million people online, second only to China. That’s more than double the USA’s...
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India’s Kolkata Int. Book Fair confirmed for Feb 28 despite 800 daily Covid fatalities
Two missed years have severely impacted Kolkata publishers who rely on the event for a substantial...
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Amazon is closing Westland, the Indian publishing company it acquired in 2016. What will happen to its catalogue and authors?
Amazon’s latest triumph of hope over experience comes to an end with the slow realisation that the...
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Ten global publishing stories not to be missed – 22 January 2018 edition
The global publishing market has never been more exciting, and every day myriad publishing stories...
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Penguin India Bags Publisher of the Year Award
The Mumbai LitFest has just wound up, and Penguin India took the Publisher of the Year award at...
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Microfiction on mobiles drives India's online literature boom
Further to our coverage of the Indian micro-fiction site Terribly Tiny Tales (TTT) early this...
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