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January 2018

Teach Yourself Hindi – Guide for Foreigners and Beginners

Author: Aastha Singh Publisher: Teenage Publishers (Pp 172, ISBN 978-938538759, $6.99) Hindi is spoken in around 120 countries and the language itself is quite simple to learn, not as difficult as Arabic or Sanskrit. In addition to this, if…

Publicon 2017 focused on important issues in publishing

FICCI organized PubliCon 2017 on December 1, 2017 at FICCI, New Delhi. The programme was dedicated to enable publishing sector by facilitating effective dialogue and debate over policy issues, copyright issues, strategies for content…

News & Review

DK School Quiz 2017 The 4th edition of the DK School Quiz, in association with Quizcraft Global and Eureka Bookstore, was recently held in New Delhi. Designed to educate and evaluate students from classes 7–9, the DK Quiz offers an…

2018 children’s book trends!

Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, released its annual predictions of top trends and themes in children’s books for 2018. Curated by Scholastic Book Clubs editors, this list aims to help families…

“Book distribution works on trust”

shares Vijay Ahuja of Delhi Book Store, which has been into book distribution for the past seven decades and is still growing strong. Here, he shares the changes in the book distribution process and why distribution seems to be challenge…

What makes a bestseller?

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…