publishing trends
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What’s behind the astonishing rise in LGBTQ+ romance literature?
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‘Alchemised’: Harry Potter fanfiction lovers might not be too happy to see one of them become a book
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How BookTok trends are influencing what you read – whether you use TikTok or not
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Internet Archive’s digital library has been found in breach of copyright. What are the implications?
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Why introducing sensitivity reading to the publishing industry is a change for the better
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How graphic narrative has become a prominent medium for non-fiction books
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Westland Books: No sale, writing platform Pratilipi to start publishing venture with same team
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Does Salman Rushdie’s decision to publish on Substack signal a threat to book publishing?
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‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ 10 years later: What it tells us about self-publishing as a strategy
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How systemic racial bias in the UK’s publishing industry disadvantages black writers
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Writers from Pakistan are suffering because their country has stopped the import of books from India
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How does a publishing company persuade people in the 21st century to keep reading the classics?
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How internet influencers became literary sensations – with a very outdated view of women
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The unreliable narrative of Dan Mallory aka AJ Finn is a commentary on getting ahead in publishing
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Why the internet has not killed physical books off, and will not any time soon, either
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What’s brewing between Indian and French publishing? French Ambassador Alexandre Ziegler explains
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What big data tells us about how a book becomes a bestseller: It’s easier than we think
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India’s non-English literature now has a fast-growing corner of its own on the internet
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You’re wrong, Arnaud Nourry, eBooks are not ‘stupid’
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Why have Australian publishers been visiting India every year for the past six years?
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What does a beverage maker have to do with publishing? Plenty, if you ask Paper Boat Drinks
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What will Westland’s new politically-engaged literary imprint bring? Ask publisher Karthika VK
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‘It was uncomfortable. The best reason to say yes’: Deborah Treisman on publishing ‘Cat Person’
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A writer’s guide to what India’s commissioning editors are looking for (and what they don’t want)
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Chinese publishing is booming with over 350 million people reading ebooks. But at what cost?
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‘India has a rich oral tradition’: Why a new player in Indian publishing is bullish on audiobooks
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Decoding a bestseller: How Nielsen BookScan is changing some aspects of Indian publishing
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Barkha Dutt to write a book on two decades of Indian politics
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Ravinder Singh’s ‘I Too Had A Love Story’ is being published in the UK
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Memo to writers: Publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair are looking for books from India
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Award-winning writer Anuradha Roy’s ‘All The Lives We Never Lived’ comes out next year
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Jeeves and Wooster are coming back in a new novel. Good news or bad news?
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EL James returns with ‘Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian’
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What does it take for an Indian writer to be published abroad? A literary agent has some answers
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Why is Oxford University Press entering Indian language publishing after over 100 years in India?
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Should an author’s unfinished work be completed by someone else after their death?
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Your children can now be characters in storybooks, but what does it mean for their privacy?
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How many copies must a book sell to be a bestseller in India (and why are there so many lists?)
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written a new short story
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Booksellers and publishers are feeling the heat of GST. Will they pass on the burden to the reader?
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There’s no GST on books. And yet books will become more expensive
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Mohammed Hanif is publishing his new novel in 2018. It’s called ‘Red Birds’
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Publishers of children’s books are looking for the next Harry Potter. But should they?
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Could books become irrelevant in India? Two publishing CEOs answer (and explain their jobs)
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Centre may lose power to grant ISBNs to books after complaints about bureaucratic delays, censorship
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It’s World Book Day, but India’s publishers are up against a serious snag
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Why you don’t need to write much to be the world’s bestselling author
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Debut authors, here’s why publishers are finding it difficult to market your books
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‘Yours is a midlist book’: Why writers never want to hear their publishers say this
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Eight reasons that even a good book is rejected by publishers
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A wishlist for Karthika VK as she starts her new publishing imprint for Westland Books
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Three discoveries (and some footnotes) about readers and publishers from the World Book Fair
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The books that mattered to India’s independent publishers in 2016
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Why ‘hygge’ is the go-to concept for happiness that has spawned an entire publishing genre
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A new startup will bring books from around the world to the Indian reader
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The books have never been more exciting. The publishing business has never looked so bleak
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Why are sports books not bestsellers when sports is so big in India?
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Futile debate: It's time to stop predicting a winner in the book versus e-book battle
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In a shock move, HarperCollins India publisher Karthika VK quits after ten years in the job
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Jhumpa Lahiri is back already. With a volume on the art of the book jacket
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This is how a bestselling book is made in India today
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Why writers from Pakistan are looking to publish in India
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How books on cinema are actually published in India (it’s hilarious)
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Not again! Three more books from the Harry Potter universe
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Chiki Sarkar on her experiments in publishing
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New Bridget Jones book to be published in October
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Anuja Chauhan is back to HarperCollins after one book with Westland
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Stop moaning. Indian fantasy writing doesn’t depend on the epics (though it’s OK if it does)
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Indian fantasy writers are creating worlds beyond the epics, but readers must know where to look
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Will Indian fantasy writers ever look beyond the religious epics?
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The Shashank Redemption: ‘Pimp’ is a dense, profane little book. What next?
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The little private book that sent Silicon Valley into a whirl has now been published
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Forget fiction and non-fiction, adults are turning to colouring books
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The difficult position of yoga fiction
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How Murakami’s publishers have replaced his book with a brand
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Why do so many books by South Asian women writers have the same kind of covers?
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How a six-person company from Calcutta publishes literary prizewinners from around the world
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The future of the Kindle: just like paper