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Chander Mani Gosain of Friends Publications India shares his views on the state of publishing industry in India in the times of Covid-19.

Union Cabinet has approved the new National Education Policy, NEP  and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) would now be referred to as Ministry of Education. The announcement was made by Union Human Resource Development…

Sesh Seshadri, CEO & Partner, Overleaf Books LLP & Director & General Manager, Lonely Planet

These are challenging times. The COVID-19 pandemic is a real global crisis, like we have never seen before. It will have profound implications for our businesses and we will have to adapt.

Kailash Balani, Managing Director, Balani Group and Past President, FPBAI and member of the FICCI publishing committee, shares his views on GST on e-journals and the state of funds given to libraries for buying books.

Nitasha Devasar*, Managing Director, Taylor & Francis India and South Asia and President, Association of Publishers in India, ponders this $8 billion question.

This article is to report work in progress and allow the readers to determine what will the final policy from GOI on Education. There will no doubt be many perspectives and opinions, shares Sesh Seshadri – CEO & Partner, Overleaf Books…

Kailash Balani, Managing Director, Balani Group and Past President, FPBAI and member of the FICCI publishing committee, shares his views on the purchase of books through tenders or quotations by libraries.

A 5 percent custom duty is being imposed on imported books with a goal to encourage domestic publishing and print industry. Here, GS Jolly shares his views on the same.

Richard Charkin, Founder, Mensch Publishing and President of Bloomsbury China and Consultant to Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, shares his views on the Indian publishing industry.