Namesake the movie also pushes book sales

If the movie is expected to do well why should the book lag behind? With Mira Nair's Namesake released across India on Friday, retailers are stocking up on Jhumpa Lahiri's Pultizer prize-winning......

JLF matters

Outside Diggi Palace's walls, things may be getting darker. Speech may be under threat; writers may be getting murdered for their writing. But, inside, it is possible to feel hope that ideas,......

Booksellers pay for Potter's magic

The booklovers are eagerly waiting for final sequence of the Harry Potter adventure series to hit bookstores across Mumbai, but sellers are worried about too much discount to be offered in the face......

Distributors cold towards book on Shivaji

The Bombay high court may have lifted the ban on American scholar James Laine's book Shivaji: A Hindu King in Islamic India, but bibliophiles in Mumbai may never get to lay their hands on a copy of......

Oxford adopts franchise model

Oxford Bookstore is in expansion mode and is adopting the franchise model for growth.The bookstore has already tied up franchisees for stores in five cities -- Guwahati, Kochi, Nagpur, Ahmedabad......

Star India, Popular Prakashan in pact

News Corporation's subsidiary Star India Pvt Ltd has entered into a co-publishing venture with bookseller and publisher Popular Prakashan Pvt Ltd to launch activity books based on two popular......

Paymate plans rail tickets via SMS

Paymate, a leading mobile commerce company, is in talks with Indian Railways to implement a system for booking tickets through SMS and has signed 3,000 online merchants including Rediff and......

Books still rule over digital media

Dismissing suggestions that the interest in books is on wane, the publishing industry has taken the 'digital' challenge in its stride and turned technology into an additional stream of......

"I want to write Rajnikant's biography..."

Roopa Swaminathan, author of the National Award-winning book, Star Dust, Vignettes from the fringes of the Film Industry, calls herself a hardcore Mumbaiite who loves cinema and grew up watching......

Kohli breaks Tendulkar's record; fastest to 10000 runs in ODIs!

Sachin Tendulkar needed 259 innings to get to 10,000, while Kohli has so far batted in 205 ODIs. Besides Tendulkar and Kohli, Sourav Ganguly, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Rahul Dravid are the other......