The Books Blog
The Books Blog is the bookworm's cozy nook, the authors' stage to connect with his or her readers, the critics' space to speak of things which can't be told in the official milieu of reviews.I have spent the past few months working for a Christian publishing house in the gorgeous old town of Oxford, producing books that illuminate, detail, debate, commodify, beautify, question and everything except threaten, the Christian Faith. But as an ebooks assistant, I learned, device-agnostic was the way to go!
The company's print digitisation programme spans four imprints. Alongside their frontlists, were full-scale plans to digitise their backlists of over eight hundred titles predating the late eighties. Ebook files were sent to conversion houses in India (vendors like Q2A and First Source), who would return with mobi and ePub file formats which would be tested on e-reading devices to see if they read correctly, and if not, returned with instructions referring to the original handover guidelines we had sent out while setting editorial standards for the ebooks. Files would thus move...Read more...
More about Arundati Dandapani
Arundati Dandapani has studied, worked and travelled in India, USA and the UK, and returns home after an intensive year of a masters and other publishing activities. Ebooks, storytelling, copywriting, copyediting, proofreading, content planning and metadata tagging are tasks she is most skilled at with deep interest in digital and apps.
Recent Posts by Arundati Dandapani
- How I became a print digitisation fanatic!
I have spent the past few months working for a Christian publishing house in the gorgeous old town of Oxford, producing books that illuminate, detail, debate, commodify, beautify, question
Arundati Dandapani
How I became a print digitisation fanatic!I have spent the past few months working for a Christian publishing house in the gorgeous old town of Oxford, producing books that illuminate, detail, debate, commodify, beautify, question
Manu Bhagavan
A response to Perry Anderson's essay on Partition in The London Review of BooksI recently read with significant concern Perry Anderson's essay on Partition of the Indian subcontinent (The London Review of Books, 19 July 2012), hyperlinked below. While Anderson is a
Amrita Tripathi
From the Land of the Thunder DragonMountain Echoes has kicked off to a promising start here in Thimphu, Bhutan. There's usually only so much you can say about a literary festival, but here's one whose
Krishan Partap Singh
When fiction comes to life India is in crisis. A corrupt government rules with no clear and credible replacement in sight, the economy is in terminal decline, the people's trust in the political system
Rakhshanda Jalil
Javed Akhtar: talking cinema, songs and the state of UrduThe Hindi film industry and its sorority of regional-language sister industries in the sub-continent has elevated the song-and-dance sequence to a rare art form. Inspired partly by
Ursula James
Of my India visit and the powers of the moonIt is my first visit to India in 20 years, and as I wonder at the extraordinary changes which have taken place here, I also reflect on what a
