Trade, or the publisher-to-publisher business of books, played a larger role at this book fair than before — in India, at least. And much of this trade happened in the areas listed above, not in fiction.
Full report here Business Standard
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Hydra tales
Having spent three days at the just-concluded 19th Delhi World Book Fair, I’m ready to speculate a little about the books industry.
To start with, what most of us think of as a “book” is not what the books industry makes most of. Story, narrative, fiction, especially the stuff that wins all the famous awards, makes up a small share of the titles published every year. Vastly larger numbers of educational, business-and-management, and science-technology-medicine (STM) books are made, even if they remain invisible on pages like this one.
Trade, or the publisher-to-publisher business of books, played a larger role at this book fair than before — in India, at least. And much of this trade happened in the areas listed above, not in fiction.
Full report here Business Standard
Trade, or the publisher-to-publisher business of books, played a larger role at this book fair than before — in India, at least. And much of this trade happened in the areas listed above, not in fiction.
Full report here Business Standard
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