Monthly Archives

August 2014

Chit-chat with a YA fiction Author!

Jash Sen is a popular Young adult fiction author, with Wordkeepers trilogy to her credit. Here, Jash talks about writing for YA genre and more…. Jash Sen’s first memories of reading were of leafing through a hard-bound copy of her…

Jungle chat: Animals and birds in children’s literature

India is a country of diversity in almost all respects, but the cultural roots are the same. This applies to the children literature of Indian languages (Bengali, Assamese, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Hindi…

News & Reviews

New series on Mahabharata Campfire Graphic Novels, India’s leading publisher of illustrated graphic novels, has released the first volume of a brand new series based on the tales of The Mahabharata – The Kaurava Empire: Abhimanyu and the…

STM books galore at DBS

New Delhi based Delhi Book Store (DBS) has a treasure trove of books of all genres for all age groups. Their collection of STM (scientific, technical and medical) is worth looking. Here’s more on their huge collection. With a sprawling and…

Ready for dispatch in two days!

manroland web systems and HP organised an Open House at their joint customer Hucais Group, Hong Kong. Visitors from China, South East Asia, USA and Australia were impressed by the rapid performance and production flexibility of the digital…

Library… at your doorstep

In today's age when traffic is crazy, distances untenable and time, a scarce commodity, online libraries enable book-lovers to indulge themselves from the comfort of their homes and offices. They fill the space between online retail and…

London Book Fair partners with BAFTA

The London Book Fair (LBF) has announced a new partnership with The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to promote links between the books and broadcast creative industries. This builds on LBF’s established relationship with…

Happier times ahead for the textbook publishing!

What have been the changes and emerging trends in the textbook segment, especially at the school level, shares Raghu Ram Aiyar of Amity University Press (AUP) in conversation with Varsha Verma. Undoubtedly, the total market for textbook…