Shobit Arya, the founder and publisher of Wisdom Tree on what we can expect from the Indian publishing next year. Technology is like an object in your rear-view mirror. It is always closer than you think it is. In fact, for us in Indian publishing, it may actually just be ready to jump out of the mirror. Let me first put this in perspective. Last year around the same time,...
12:13 PM, Dec 23, 2011
New Delhi: Simon & Schuster, a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, providing consumers worldwide with a diverse range of quality books across a wide variety of genres and formats. It is the publishing operation of CBS Corporation, one of the worlds premier media companies. S&S Director of Sales and Marketing, Rahul Srivastava spoke to IBNLive about the company, its strategy and future course of plan in...
08:10 PM, Sep 14, 2011
New Delhi: The prestigious Frankfurt Book Fair is reaching out to new segment of Indian readers at the grassroots to enhance literacy and reading competence. 'Jumpstart', a programme under the 'Litcam - Competence for Life' programme, is part of the fair's three-pronged outreach programme to tap into the exploding readers' and publishing market, bring the marginalised sections of readership to the mainstream and combat functional illiteracy. At the core of...
02:40 PM, Aug 27, 2011
New Delhi: Chiki Sarkar, the former editor in chief of Random House India, has been appointed publisher of Penguin India, the largest English language trade publisher in the subcontinent. Sarkar has worked with best-selling authors including Jhumpa Lahiri, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Mohammed Hanif, Daniyal Mueenuddin and Rujuta Diwekar. Before Random House, she worked for Bloomsbury Publishing in London for seven years. She is a graduate of Oxford University. "We...
03:05 PM, May 27, 2011
Mumbai: Teenage love is nothing if not drama. And here's one teen dying to tell you more. At the age of 15, Ritwik Mallik wrote his first high school romance novel, he's now written the sequel 'Because you loved me'. Student and writer Ritwik Mallik said, "I was caught talking to my girlfriend 4:00am in the morning. It was quite scary then- and when I wrote it in the book...
05:28 PM, May 01, 2011
If Indian lawmakers accept the new measures that have been proposed in India's Copyright Act, they may solve many of Bollywood's problems over intellectual property rights with respect to the music and lyrics of film songs. However, perhaps more by accident than by design, they may also give India's English language publishing industry sleepless nights. Scheduled to be passed during the forthcoming Budget session of the Indian Parliament, the new...
05:32 PM, Jan 20, 2011
New Delhi: Authors and top publishers Wednesday launched a countrywide signature campaign against the proposed Copyright Amendment Bill 2010, which, they feared, could endanger Indian publishing. They are worried that the amendment would remove restrictions on their territorial rights and allow easy import of cheaper and pirated versions of books. This could put specially-priced Indian editions of foreign books under siege, the campaigners feel. Leading writers and publishers said the...
05:22 PM, Jan 20, 2011
Allahabad: He is all of 12 years but Utkarsh Tripathi painstakingly brings out a handwritten newspaper every week to spread awareness among his peers on issues like the environment and female foeticide. And all this to satisfy his urge to "serve the country". A Class 8 student of the Brij Bihari Sahai (BBS) Inter College in Allahabad, Utkarsh has been bringing out the newspaper Jagriti for the last one year....
01:05 PM, Jan 03, 2011
Los Angeles: US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster named "Austerity" as the word of the year Monday, reflecting the cost-cutting ethos that has gripped the US economy and culture. "'Austerity' clearly resonates with many people," said Peter Sokolowski, editor at large at Merriam-Webster, who monitors online dictionary searches. "We often hear it used in the context of government measures, but we also apply it to our own personal finances and what is...
02:07 PM, Dec 21, 2010
New Delhi: Young adult literature in India is surprisingly prolific and publishers are vying to bring out high quality well-written and original new fiction in this segment, feel contemporary writers. From this year, Vodafone Crossword started awards for the children's section too and entries are works of children and teenage prose fiction or non-fiction. According to Shreekumar Varma, whose "The Magic Store of Nu-Cham-Vu" has been shortlisted for the Crossword...
01:33 PM, Sep 08, 2010
Mumbai: On the occasion of Mother Teresa’s birth centenary, comic book label Amar Chitra Katha has launched a special title, tracking the life and times of the nun of Albanian descent who later became an Indian citizen. This is the first title by the comic book label in four years. Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) has come up with a special comic book on the life and works of the Mother...
12:23 PM, Aug 26, 2010
HarperCollins Publishers India represented five titles in the longlist. ...
02:25 PM, Jul 21, 2009
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12:09 AM, Mar 13, 2009
Karachi: Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar on Thursday said he will not participate in the inaugural Sri Lankan Premier League, since he wants to concentrate on his business. "The issue is I have started a business and it needs lot of time from me. So I wouldn't be able to make it to Sri Lanka," Akhtar, who retired during the World Cup, said. The fast bowler who is from...
10:24 PM, Feb 04, 2008
Harper Collins India kick-started the year with their book
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