August Issue

Every year, there’s the same old story – Where are my textbooks? – ask students when the new session starts in June every year. The story was the same 50 years back when I was a student myself – running around, looking for books at all the…

More recently, the news of ceasing publishing operations at Hachette New Zealand, the local arm of the global publisher Hachette, set me fresh thinking. This publishing house was facing increased competition from overseas titles and…

-committed to provide cover-to-cover excellence Being one of the leading printing facilities in India, the company is equipped with state-of-the-art printing and binding machines, along with equally efficient prepress having a Heidelberg…

Imagine a situation where no book going out of print, authors can publish themselves just one book to start with, publishers can print books as and when the orders are received…yes this is fast becoming a reality, due to the print on…

It was early this year we launched AABP magazine at the bi-annual New Delhi World Book Fair held at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. The fair was widely appreciated except for a few shortcomings like lack of proper signages and the thinly…

IThe Indian census 2011 figures indicate that the national literacy rate has reached 74.04 percent, as against 64.83 percent in 2001 (males: 82.14 percent, females: 65.46 percent). This is a positive indication for the Indian publishing…

Power Rangers writer Stewart St John releases children’s book St John-Fisher Entertainment, a rising star in the children and family publishing and multimedia market creating innovative content across all media platforms, has released…

In this issue, let us understand how workflow and environment can be controlled for optimum quality book production. Workflow and environment Workflow is the depiction of a sequence of operations carried out using one or more simple or…