‘Hindi publishing cannot have one poster-boy or girl. There are 40 areas, each with unique readers’

Vani Prakashan’s Aditi Maheshwari Goyal on the vibrant yet familial world of Hindi publishing, and what English-language publishers can learn from it.

Kanishka Gupta

· Jun 11, 2017 · 08:30 am

Could books become irrelevant in India? Two publishing CEOs answer (and explain their jobs)

The view from the business side of publishing.

Kanishka Gupta

· May 28, 2017 · 08:30 am

How much money can you really expect when you turn in your manuscript to a publisher?

A handy guide for writers to advance payments for their books.

Kanishka Gupta

· Apr 30, 2017 · 06:00 am

Debut authors, here’s why publishers are finding it difficult to market your books

All the old tactics are failing when it comes to first-time writers.

Kanishka Gupta

· Apr 15, 2017 · 06:30 pm

‘Yours is a midlist book’: Why writers never want to hear their publishers say this

Why the midlist book, which was once a strong presence on Indian publishers’ list, is endangered.

Kanishka Gupta

· Apr 02, 2017 · 06:30 am

Eight reasons that even a good book is rejected by publishers

A literary agent lays out the factors that go into the acceptance – or rejection – of a manuscript.

Kanishka Gupta

· Mar 25, 2017 · 12:30 pm

What did it take India’s Bookaroo to win a global award for best literature festival?

‘Children’s literature festivals don’t work on star power or provocative debates.’

Kanishka Gupta

· Mar 18, 2017 · 06:30 pm

‘Online booksellers offer transactions, not the romance of buying books.’

Priyanka Malhotra, owner of New Delhi’s Full Circle bookshops, explains how she competes with e-tailers.

Kanishka Gupta

· Mar 11, 2017 · 10:30 am

‘We find our writers through unsolicited submissions. We read every manuscript’: Jayanta Kumar Bose

Meet the publisher responsible for today’s stream of successful commercial fiction in English.

Kanishka Gupta

· Feb 12, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Pakistan has got a new publisher of English books, and she’s looking to stir things up

‘The totemic figures of traditional publishing in Pakistan haven’t looked to sustain anything other than their own relevance,’ says Shandana Minhas.

Kanishka Gupta

· Jan 29, 2017 · 12:30 pm

While you weren’t looking (or reading), Savi Sharma sold 100,000 copies of her romance

Meet India’s first woman writer of mass market fiction to cross that mark.

Kanishka Gupta

· Jan 15, 2017 · 07:00 am

Friend, guide, editor, critic: The booming business of literary agents in India

Literary agents have already started making giant strides, their turnovers surpassing those of highly reputed medium-sized publishing houses.

Kanishka Gupta

· Nov 24, 2016 · 08:30 am