Source: Indian Express via Pratham Books
The Kannada Book Authority (KBA) is shortly bringing out works of great writers like Kuvempu, Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, D V Gundappa, Kota Shivarama Karantha, Girish Karnad and G P Rajaratnam in Braille format.
The books will be printed at the Government Printing Press for Braille in Mysore. The titles that will [...]
Source: Business Standard
UK-based Parragon Publishing is looking at increasing its presence to another 25 cities across India this year, besides bringing out around 100 titles from the Disney stable.
The company, which specialises in books which have more visuals than text for both kids and adult categories, also plans to make a foray into bilingual medium [...]
Source: Indian Express
Daryaganj [now wears a deserted look].
Gone was the hustle and bustle on the pavements, the yellowed texts stacked against walls, books piled up helter-skelter, hawkers shouting and book lovers, young and old, jostling through the crowds.
And the change has come to stay.
The 45-year-old book market is facing the brunt of a police drive [...]
Source: Financial Express
Aptara, a pioneer in digital publishing solutions, was chosen by MP Publishing, a leading eBook publisher, to convert publications previously unreleased in eBook form. MP Publishing is acquiring thousands of book titles from publishers all over the world and making them available for instant download through their website, www.skoobestore.com, and through mass distribution [...]
Source: .worldlatestnews.com
Harper-Collins India has come out with a new toddlers’ series aimed at developing reading skills for children aged between one and five years. The “Big Cat Read at Home” series, published in June, is divided into four levels.
While level one – called “First Steps” – strings a few simple words and pictures together for [...]
Source: The Hindu
One of Bengal’s most popular writers, Mani Shankar Mukherjee, is waiting to see how English speaking urban India reacts to “The Middleman”, the translated avatar of his most famous Bengali novel “Jana Aranya”.
“I am looking forward to seeing how young and English-speaking India reacts to it,” Sankar, as he is known in millions [...]
Source: Business Standard
A snapshot of the Indian publishing industry
The popularity of Indian writing in English has been affirmed by various studies including one by Tapan Basu (Contemporary Indian Writing in English: Is there a market in India for this text?). The National Readership survey 2005 revealed that the time that people in India spend on [...]
Source: thebookseller.com
A month ago I became aware of disquiet among some Indian publishers that foreign publishers are actively encouraged to move to India by the Indian government. Demands to scrap the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) have fallen on deaf ears. Indian publishers complain they have no support from their own government and foreigners are able [...]
Source: Hindustan Times
Close your eyes and feel the butterfly, the cheesecake, the orange, the doormat and other tangible things we encounter in our daily life. In an attempt to reach out to visually-impaired young children, Karadi Tales has decided to launch a tactile picture book that would help them “feel” what they’re reading. For their [...]
Source: thebookseller.com
Of course, the effect Indian writers have on the UK is not the main reason for India being fêted at LBF. The subcontinent is one of the fastest growing publishing markets in the world, particularly for English-language books. For British publishers in 2007, the country was the 18th most important export market. The amount [...]