Views & Updates

While it may sound unseemly to benefit from COVID, we (Hachette) had a rather bizarre but short lived upswing from having the three Coronavirus books that went viral (pun unintended), supposedly being prescient about the Coronavirus. First…
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Yuvraj Malik, Director - NATIONAL BOOK TRUST, INDIA (Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India)
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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.
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“The history of publishing in Hindi still awaits to be written,” quips Prof. Francesca Orsini in The Hindi Public Sphere (1920-1940). True for a language that changes its dynamics with each financial quarter, one does desire a pause button…
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Debajyoti Datta, Shishu Sahitya Samsad (P) Ltd shares how the Bengali language publishing has evolved, the challenges now and how the industry can be revived. Publishing in Bengali has a history of more than two hundred years and a very…
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Jacks Thomas, Director, The London Book Fair shares what to expect at the London Book Fair to be held at Olympia, London from April 10-12, 2018. The London Book Fair 2018 will accommodate over 25,000 delegates from over 130 countries. It…
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Freedom to Publish is an interesting expression very widely used in recent times. It is perforce a very vexed question, posing difficulties not just in terms of judging what constitutes violations of such freedom but in the adherence to it.…
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Edited by Nitasha Devasar Extracts from the Preface of the book. Books on India’s publishing industry are few and far between. Ironic for an industry considered both vibrant and with growth potential, in a country that sees its future as a…
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At THE ARTS+, see how ancient alphabets are brought into the future, how long-forgotten cultural content is given new life through new media and how politics and the publishing industry need to work together to protect society’s cultural…
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says Ratnesh Jha, Managing Director – South Asia, Cambridge University Press, in conversation with Varsha Verma. Technology is an enabler; we are going through a massive change in this volatile world, which is a huge opportunity. Publishing…
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