Lucknow: If you're curious about Uttar Pradesh's new, youngest chief minister, wait till a 200-page multi-language pocketbook on Akhilesh Yadav hits the stands next week. The book, also the first on the 38-year-old who came to power last month, is titled "Akhilesh Yadav -- The Lord of New Hopes". It is being published by popular publishing house Diamond Books. "Initially, we are printing about 50,000 copies of which 10,000 are...
12:54 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Have you ever wondered what would it be like if your mother disappeared one fine day? What would you go through if you were unable to locate her? What would you go through knowing that your mother has disappeared for good? 'Please Look after Mother' by Kyung-Sook Shin is about a mothers disappearance and written with great empathy and emotion. The mother has disappeared in a crowded Seoul subway station,...
01:55 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: Bill Gates is set to become the next comic book hero. The Microsoft founder's life will now be made into a graphic novel releasing by the end of the month. It will also be available on Nook and Kindle. He's no superhero in the traditional sense, but Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has touched many lives. And now a comic with colorful illustrations will illustrate his life....
01:27 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Washington: Apple Inc. said Friday the government's accusation that it conspired with major book publishers to raise the price of e-books is untrue. Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said that instead, Apple fostered innovation and competition by introducing its iBookstore in 2010. He said customers have benefited from e-books that are more interactive and engaging. Apple's entry into the e-book marketplace has broken "Amazon's monopolistic grip on the publishing industry," said...
10:30 AM, Apr 14, 2012
BANGALORE: The estimate of losses faced by the Indian publishing industry last year raised quite a few eyeballs as the losses crossed over Rs 2,000 crore. This year, in barely three months, the publishing industry, has recorded losses that are almost half of last years losses, reveal sources. Bangalore retains its status of being the city with a huge chain of book piracyoperators working underground, but also a city with...
10:17 AM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: How do you start a serious discussion on contemporary literature with a Pakistani author who taught Argentine tango to Canadians in Toronto, flipped pizzas and worked at an assembly line to make a living while translating Urdu fantasy fiction to English in his spare time? You don't. You let him regale you with hilarious anecdotes from his tango teaching days as he tries to make light of his...
11:05 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Washington: Apple and five of the publishing industry's top firms have been accused of conspiring to raise prices and block Amazon.com from selling e-books at $9.99 in a US Justice Department suit. The suit filed Wednesday stems from the 2010 release of the iPad, when Apple reached an agreement with the five publishers to release books on its then-new iBookstore. Three publishers - Hachette, Simon and Schuster and HarperCollins -...
02:43 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: Vice President Hamid Ansari on Tuesday lamented that leaders in India do not write autobiographies to give citizens a glimpse of their innermost thoughts while being on the public stage. "I take the liberty of saying that I wish this had been an autobiography," Ansari said after releasing a book 'PA Sangma: A Life in Politics - Selected Speeches and Lectures 1979-2004'. However, he hastened to add that...
05:16 AM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Aleph Book Company has announced its first list of titles. The twenty five fiction and non-fiction titles on the company's launch list will be published across five seasons, and will comprise original works by established authors as well as new voices. Ex-Penguin Canada President and novelist David Davidar, Ravi Singh and Kapish Mehra whose company Rupa Publications has partnered Davidar to launch Aleph, talked about their strategy...
04:18 PM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: Four men meet under the cover of anonymity at a pub perched on top of a hill at Jungfrau, in the Bernese Alps, accessible only by a malfunctioning cable car. They order their drinks (single malt, on the rocks, gin and tonic, vodka, neat and lager) and decide on not revealing their real identities. The story of the graphic novel Agent Vinod - The Jungfrau Encounter lurches forward...
11:37 AM, Apr 10, 2012
Moscow: School notebooks with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on the cover are causing controversy in Russia. One of Moscow's largest bookshop said it is running out of the notebooks because they are so popular but human rights activists have slammed the notebooks as promoting Stalin as a hero to children. Russia's education minister says while he disapproves of the notebooks, there is no legal way to stop stores from selling...
06:00 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Beijing: Students in a Chinese school may soon carry iPads instead of books to their classrooms as the management is planning to allow the use of the gadget. The Jinling High School in Nanjing city has already allowed three students to bring iPads to their classrooms on a trial basis once their new term begins in September. The policy has been discussed extensively and will possibly be extended to all...
10:35 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Let's take a look into the ultra slim notebooks, new cameras and the all new iPad 3. ...
06:57 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Washington: The Justice Department could reach a settlement in the next few weeks with Apple Inc and some of the major publishers suspected of colluding to push up electronic book prices, according to two people close to the negotiations. While negotiations are still fluid, the settlement is expected to eliminate Apple's so-called "most favoured nation" status, which had prevented the publishers from selling lower-priced e-books through rival retailers such as...
06:24 PM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: While mainstream films have seen mass consumption in the country, a new breed of Indian fiction is seen doing the same. These books speak in a language which is hooking on a lot of first time readers. Indian writing in English has moved far beyond the Amitav Ghoshes, Vikram Seths and Salman Rushdies, even past Chetan Bhagat, who barged into the Indian publishing milieu and revolutionised the market....
01:00 PM, Mar 30, 2012
'If I were to choose a secret companion, an unofficial alter ego, I would most likely fasten on someone more dashing, more decisive, less unsettled than Greene.' But Greene 'took residence' inside the author's head, to the point where he had an eerie feeling that his life was playing out on the lines of the plots Greene had constructed decades ago. And so, as if instructed by an inner voice,...
06:37 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New York: When the Harry Potter books finally went on sale in electronic form on Tuesday, it was as if Harry himself had cast the "Alohomora" spell on them - the one that unlocks doors. In a break with industry practices, the books aren't locked down by encryption, which means consumers can move them between devices and read them anywhere they like. If "Pottermore," J.K. Rowling's new Web store, proves...
10:47 AM, Mar 28, 2012
There's no doubt about it - Jeffrey Archer's got a gift. At first glance, The 'Sins of the Father' is a heady mix of, well, stuff that Archer's given us before " the prison sentence, the wronged innocent, the devoted partner, who fights against all odds " but he does it so well, and injects more drama than you would think possible! There is also a definite seediness that he...
01:07 AM, Mar 24, 2012
