Tag Archives: twitter

Indian Publishing: Profiting by Managing a Propensity for Chaos

By admin | Published: February 21, 2013

Tara Books editor and documentary film maker Arun Wolf tackles the thriving, yet confounding publishing industry in India. Encompassing over 120 languages and around 19,000 publishers, it’s a market that is vast, diverse and often difficult. But Indian publishers are innovative in their response to the challenges posed by distribution and the digital revolution. 6 [...]

Posted in Books, Publishing | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Social Publishing

By admin | Published: October 3, 2011

Last month, Tara’s Maegan Dobson attended Publishing Next – India’s first conference on the future of publishing. There she spoke about social networking from the perspective of an independent publishing house, joining a conversation that touched upon subjects as diverse as technology, dissemination, class and language. Here Maegan discusses the experience, reflecting on some of [...]

Posted in Books, Events, General, Tara Ethos | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Responses

Gender & Social Media

By admin | Published: May 31, 2011

Recently, we were asked to write an article about our experience of gender in children’s books in the Indian context. It’s certainly a topical issue at the moment: a recent study in the US looking at almost 6,000 books published between 1990 and 2000 found that males are central characters in 57% of children’s books [...]

Posted in Behind the scenes, Books, Gender, General, Tara Ethos | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Response