Nov Dec 2022

The 74th Frankfurter Buchmesse (19–23 October, 2022) attracted 93,000 trade visitors (2021: 36,000 trade visitors) and 87,000 private visitors (2021: 37,500 private visitors), Over 4,000 exhibitors from 95 countries were present in the…

The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international distinction in the field of books for young people. Given every other year by IBBY, the Awards recognise lifelong achievement and are given to a writer and an illustrator whose…

Following reports in international media, the International Publishers Association is extremely concerned about a new bill which, if adopted will prohibit the ‘promotion of non-traditional sexual relations’. This legislation will…

After a US judge blocked Penguin Random House – Simon & Schuster merger deal, Penguin Random House head Markus Dohle will step down at the end of the year. Nihar Malaviya, who is president and chief operating officer of Penguin Random…

Ashok Giri of Pajeflow recently gave a demonstration of a new service called PajeFlow, where they act as the compositor and offer a 30% discount on your current composition rack rate. So publishers’ benefit is twofold: they will have…

Penguin Random House India has announced that critically acclaimed Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which was first published by Penguin India as Chats With The Dead, has won this year’s Booker Prize…

The three-day translation workshop being organized by National Book Trust, India was held in Alwar, Rajasthan from September 15-17, 2022 to translate select NBT-India children’s titles from Hindi to Rajasthani language. The workshop was…

During the AGM of the Association of Publishers in India (API) held recently, the following persons were unanimously elected as the Office Bearers of the API, for the year 2022-23: Sesh Seshadri - Overleaf Books LLP – President; Prashant…

  Sunil Kumar, Deputy Director of Capexil took a delegation of Indian Publishers to Riyadh International Book Fair 2022 for their participation in the fair & Publishers Meet. Capexil and its members has participated in this fair for…

As we draw close to the end of this year, we thought of how the publishing ecosystem has evolved over the years. As P M Sukumar puts it, “The market is estimated to be growing at over 19% annually. India has a fifth of the world’s 15-19…