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October 2017

Songs of Bollywood

Poetry turns words into art. It can hurt and it can heal. It can express emotions even in the most intensely joyous or grievous times. When we mention poetry, who could forget everlasting melancholy words of poets like William Shakespeare,…

Poetry: an honest expression!

“Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language, such as phonoaesthetics (the possible connection between sound sequences and meaning), sound symbolism, and metre to evoke meanings in addition to, or…

New launch

Innovative pre-school books from Parragon Publishing As a part of an exciting new preschool range, Parragon Publishing India has released new titles under their series Lift-the-Flap – Colours, Opposites, Baby Animals and Why is? The books…

Writers and editors– the publishing lifeline

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…

The heebie-jeebies of ISBN

ISBN is important for any book to be decipherable in any space – online or offline. Here, Hasan Khurshid shares useful information on ISBN. What is ISBN? The acronym “ISBN” stands for International Standard Book Number. ISBN is a unique…

NDWBF bookings open: 300 bookings on first day itself!

Better infrastructure, well managed, well planned show – the upcoming New Delhi World Book Fair 2018 will truly be a world-class expo. Here, Baldeo Bhai Sharma, chairman, National Book Trust (NBT), India, shares more about this book…

“Bookselling is a noble business”

says Vijay Ahuja of Delhi Book Store in conversation with All About Book Publishing. Delhi Book Store (DBS) is in the business of distribution of printed books for the last seven decades. “In last seven decades, we have seen a lot of ups…