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

Albert Einstein said, “The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.” Libraries are an important part of our culture and they go a long way in inculcating good reading habits. Here, Vijay Ahuja of Delhi…

I thought I would take a break from my usual theme – building a publishing business in India – and tell the story of how my publishing and business ventures started back in 2005 when aged 25 I founded my first company, Legend Press.

I have previously written about the need to research and understand a market before entering it, followed by creating the right product and services and then building the necessary infrastructure for delivery and distribution. Over the last…

Having started working in publishing in the UK at the age of 25 years, I made the decision to quit my job and start my own book publishing company. This sounds like a big move in hindsight, but at the time it was just an idea evolving,…

In my last column, I wrote about the opportunities we saw in the quickly evolving Indian market and our plans for our publishing businesses to launch a new venture and grow business in India. The last two months have seen feverish activity…

Vikrant Mathur, director of Nielsen BookScan India shares how important it is for publishers to have accurate data of the industry and how Nielsen BookScan is trying to fill this void. What makes a bestseller? Well, there are so many…

Traditionally, the writer editor relationship has been the very heart of publishing. Writing is a lonely work and every writer at some point needs someone on whom to “bounce off” his ideas. That person may be a wife, a husband, a close…

Criticism, as one literary figure has suggested should not be used to dissect the author. Critics should not be only wasps, which sting and give only pain. Critics should be like bees, which though sting, are also providers of honey,…

opines Sesh Seshadri, publishing consultant on whether it should be mandatory to use NCERT textbooks in all CBSE schools. I begin this article by revisiting the status of the NCERT and its formation. The current circulars (I’ve read three…