Kobo makes a device push into India, but content and accessibility are not keeping up
If, as it seems, you need to be able to read English in order to navigate the Kobo site to find...
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Tag: India publishing
India – Kolkata International Book Fair 2024 dates set for early start to embrace public holidays
Weekends and public holidays see substantial increases in visitor numbers, so the two additional...
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Rise of translated Indian literature
India Today carried an insightful article on translations on the subcontinent. Excerpts:...
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HarperCollins India will embrace AI audiobooks – just as soon as the right voice comes along
India is still only at 60% internet penetration, but given that equates to 833 million of...
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India and Bangladesh to hold a joint book fair in Bangladesh in July amid prospects of a Dhaka Int. Book Fair in 2024
But isolated instances aside, we’re still a long way from seeing Bangladeshi, let alone Pakistani,...
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India – Bookstores raided by Police. Thousands of pirated print books seized
“During the questioning the shopkeepers revealed that the NCERT books have very nominal margins...
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India – 833 million people online and still “dignitaries” don’t get that a book on a screen is still a book
They would do well to support the myriad book fairs that make India such an exciting publishing...
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TNPS on LinkedIn – Round-Up #2
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it...
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India – Almost 1 million visitors, but sales disappoint at the New Delhi World Book Fair
While one million visitors may sound impressive, it barely matches other provincial book fairs in...
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Will the new Chennai International Book Fair provide the digital boost India’s publishing industry needs?
Actions speak larger than words of course, so we must wait a few weeks to find out just what the...
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India – 1.4 billion people. 833 million online. The Assam Book Fair is underway as western publishing sleeps
India is a hugely exciting market most western publishers seem not to enthuse over. Their loss....
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India: “No technology can diminish the importance of books. Cellphones can be misused but books can never be misused.”
Clearly when Goud says “books can never be misused”, he has never heard of Mein Kampf,...
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