Over the past few years, more than just a few bookstores have started operating online. Flipkart, of course, is the most reputed of them, having started operations in 2007. This proliferation of bookstores is seen by many as an efficient and convenient way to get books delivered at one’s doorstep,…
Category: Bookselling
On giving flight…
A platform that offers an opportunity to hear the best and brightest minds speak is one we’d never pass on. So when just that happened, thanks to the Tehelka sponsored ThinkFest, we made sure we attended the entire programme, all three days of it. While the venue and some comments…
Some fun please. OK?
Beginning in 2007 we opened our online book selling platform to other publishers who wished to sell their books there. Dogears Etc. was intended to be a platform for the sale of used books alone but when publishers requested that we provide a platform, we simply couldn’t refuse. Even today…
Book Buying In Bombay
Yes, we still call it that. We spent the last weekend in Bombay (or Mumbai to whom the old name doesn’t appeal). The nature of our work there left us with much free time so we decided to do the next best thing – scour for books. We spent some…
At Lightning Speed
Many distributors are reluctant to work with self-published authors and this remains the ultimate challenge that such authors face, one that renders their book inadequate no matter how well written and produced. At CinnamonTeal we have tried our best to provide distribution services for the titles we have published but…
Marketing your book!
After your book has been written, edited and laid out and ready to be printed, you need to start thinking about ways to market it so that people know about your book and set out to buy it. Book marketing, perhaps, is most ignored by authors when they could themselves…