Editorial

Every year, there’s the same old story – Where are my textbooks? – ask students when the new session starts in June every year. The story was the same 50 years back when I was a student myself – running around, looking for books at all the…

More recently, the news of ceasing publishing operations at Hachette New Zealand, the local arm of the global publisher Hachette, set me fresh thinking. This publishing house was facing increased competition from overseas titles and…

It was early this year we launched AABP magazine at the bi-annual New Delhi World Book Fair held at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. The fair was widely appreciated except for a few shortcomings like lack of proper signages and the thinly…

IThe Indian census 2011 figures indicate that the national literacy rate has reached 74.04 percent, as against 64.83 percent in 2001 (males: 82.14 percent, females: 65.46 percent). This is a positive indication for the Indian publishing…