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  Amazon Opens Kindle Store In India

  Array readersAmazon has expanded its Kindle business and opened up shop in India. Kindle India launches with more than a million titles priced in Indian Rupees. The India Kindle Store features titles from around the world including various works from Indian authors, including Chetan Bhagat, Ashwin Sanghi, Ravinder Singh and Amish Tripathi. Amazon is selling the devices through its e-commerce store and through

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  Amazon Opens Kindle Store In India

  294 readersAmazon has expanded its Kindle business and opened up shop in India. Kindle India launches with more than a million titles priced in Indian Rupees. The India Kindle Store features titles from around the world including various works from Indian authors, including Chetan Bhagat, Ashwin Sanghi, Ravinder Singh and Amish Tripathi. Amazon is selling the devices through its e-commerce store and through

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  Digital Manga and Harlequin team up with Barnes & Noble

  1206 readers From GoodEReader: Digital Manga, mostly known for manga comics and graphic novels, has teamed up with Harlequin to bring 20 books to the Barnes and Noble bookstore. This is a large partnership not only between Digital Manga and Harlequin, but also Softbank. Softbank was the company responsible mainly for the localization in

• Confronting the Big Issues in Indian Publishing

  992 readersThe blanket term “Indian-language publishing” belies the fact that each language forms a different industry of its own. By Vinutha Mallya GOA: What happens when you bring together the farthest ends of the horizontal and vertical axes of the industry in India — print and new media publishers, online retailers, booksellers, authors, bloggers, educators, linguists, graphic novelists,

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  Indian Printers Rally Collectively to Compete with China

  780 readersA new pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair aims to showcase the ability of Indian printers to compete in the global marketplace. By Ramu Ramanathan, group editor Haymarket India, editor of PrintWeek India Indian Printers Collective Stand at Frankfurt The India Printers Collective Stand at the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair was conceived in November 2011, during a round-table conversation

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  India’s First Comic Con Draws 15,000, Homegrown Heroes Are a Hit

  1529 readersEditorial by Andrew Dodd, editorial director, Campfire DELHI: It has never happened before, but it’s sure to happen again. Last weekend, fifteen thousand comic book fans gathered together in Delhi for India’s first ever Comic Con. With surprisingly high attendee count of 15,000, Comic Con India proves there is untapped potential for comics and graphic novels in

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  B&N and Viz Media team up for manga on Nook Tablet and Nook Color

  1883 readers From the press release: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of digital media and educational products, today announced that it has teamed up with VIZ Media, LLC, the largest distributor and publisher of anime and manga in North America, to bring the digital manga (graphic novel) experience to NOOK Tablet and NOOK

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  Negima’s Akamatsu Plans Free Site for Out-of-Print Manga

  2856 readersThe Anime News Network is reporting that: Manga creator Ken Akamatsu (Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Love Hina) announced on Monday that he is launching a “J-Comi” website that will eventually post out-of-print manga for free with advertising support. He is working with Ryusei Deguchi (Abenobashi: Magical Shopping Arcade ) and other fellow manga creators, in

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  Should India Allow Parallel Book Imports?

  2761 readersBy maintaining copyright protections and preventing parallel imports, is India merely delaying the inevitable? By Edward Nawotka One of the issues raised in today’s feature story about the growing international exposure of the Indian book market is whether or not the country should allow parallel imports, an issue which is currently being discussed by the Indian government. If

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  A Tour of India Finds Publishers Focused on the Digital Future

  1081 readersE-books, social media, pan-Indian translation, and copyright issues are the focus of a new circuit of publishing conferences in India — further proof India’s publishers intend to stay ahead of the curve. By Vinutha Mallya Vinutha Mallya NEW DELHI: A little Indian publishing tourism, anyone? Yes, the Frankfurt Book Fair may only be on the horizon and is