India – “Long Night of LiteratureS”speed-dating for books returns this month
Seven years on and this bizarre speed-dating for literature continues to draw crowds. India is of...
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India – JCB Prize for Literature announces 2022’s longlist
Titles in Urdu, Hindi, and Nepali have been featured in the longlist for the first time....
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Indian publishing after the pandemic – “print books have comfortably adapted to digital”
India is only at 54% internet penetration, so the reluctance of some publishers to embrace digital...
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300 million Bengali speakers finally get an ebook store, but no it’s not a world first
Amazon supports five Indian languages for its Amazon India operation (ebooks only, not print or...
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Is the “digital devil” here to stay?
India has 755 million people online, second only to China. That’s more than double the USA’s...
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India – Hybrid Kolkata Int. Book Fair breaks records with $3 million sales. 3.5 million online visitors outnumber footfall, but digital gets no credit
The big question,: will the Kolkata Fair organisers take digital seriously in 2023 and give the...
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India – Chennai Book Fair clocks 1.5 million visitors, sells books worth $1.6 million. Kolkata on target for 2 million visitors
Kolkata has for the longest time resisted digital options, as TNPS regulars will know, but this...
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India’s Kolkata Int. Book Fair confirmed for Feb 28 despite 800 daily Covid fatalities
Two missed years have severely impacted Kolkata publishers who rely on the event for a substantial...
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Amazon is closing Westland, the Indian publishing company it acquired in 2016. What will happen to its catalogue and authors?
Amazon’s latest triumph of hope over experience comes to an end with the slow realisation that the...
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India’s Kolkata IBF postponed. Publishers “face starvation” with no digital safety net in a country of 755 million internet users
One might excuse the digital resistance for their reluctance to move with the times given India is...
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India: “a very good year”, “extraordinary”, “best ever” – or “publishers facing starvation”. A tale of two publishing strategies (spoiler, one didn’t involve digital)
One might excuse the digital resistance for their reluctance to move with the times given India is...
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600,000 at Karachi Int. Book Fair as New Delhi World Book Fair postponed
The National Book Trust confirmed many major India-based publishers including Penguin Random House...
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