E-book

AI edition of books

In any case, AIs are known to be biased, to have hallucinations, and to lack a sense of reality. A shade of uncertainty thus remains

Sale of e-books not rising, even shrinking in some countries: Damon Galgut

Jaipur Literature Festival 2024: In a conversation with Business Standard, Galgut said currently non-fiction is thriving, and fiction is more under stress

Pratilipi partners with HarperCollins, to bring 200 e-books on platform

As many as 200 fiction titles of publishing house HarperCollins will be available at Pratilipi, announced the digital storytelling platform on Monday. The e-books, both in Hindi and English, will be available on the platform starting June. "Pratilipi currently gives the readers an access to over 10 million stories on our platform and with the new partnership (with HarperCollins), we are looking forward to expanding our existing catalogue to give our subscribers more quality content to consume. This is just a first step in our partnership and we look forward to taking this relationship further by adding more books in the future," said Ranjeet Pratap Singh, co-founder and CEO of Pratilipi, in a statement. The selected titles include "Do Log" by Gulzar, "The Living Mountain" by Amitav Ghosh, "Nar Nareeshwar" by Perumal Murugan, "A Hundred Little Flames" by Preeti Shenoy, "The Vault of Vishnu" by Ashwin Sanghi, "Dopehri" by Pankaj Kapur and "One Arranged Murder" by Chetan ...

Apple Books launches new audiobook catalogue with AI-based narrations

Tech giant Apple has quietly launched a catalogue of books narrated by artificial intelligence in a move with potentially huge implications for the multi-billion dollar audiobook industry

A panoramic history of the cell

Pulitzer Prize winner Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of The Cell is a beautifully crafted exposition of the author's own lifelong fascination with the subject

The filmy chronicler

The book celebrates Abbas by showing how this "boy from Panipat, land of Sufis, land of battles" introduced the small-town sensibilities to Indian cinema.

Self-publishing picks up among children, young adults; few go mainstream

Self-publishing picks up among the young; mainstream book deals remain largely elusive

Reliance Jio Cloud-linked laptops likely to cost less than Rs 10,000

Jio is working on JioBook that will have an embedded 4G chip; it is expected to be priced below Rs 20,000

Reliance Jio lists JioBook on govt e-marketplace at Rs 19,500: Details here

The JioBook is currently available for government department employees via the GeM at Rs 19,500. For others, it is expected to be available around Diwali

Future of Hindi literature set to prosper: Booker winner Geetanjali Shree

Geetanjali Shree, the first Hindi litterateur to receive the International Booker Prize, talks in an interview to Sandeep Kumar on many topics including the impact of this award

In light of India

A collection of youthful letters from her year in the country hints at the ideas that eventually shape Wendy Doniger's research and prolific writing

LinkedIn sells SlideShare to digital library Scribd for undisclosed sum

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has announced to sell SlideShare, the hosting platform for presentations and other professional content to US-based e-book and audiobook subscription service Scribd

How an 80-year-old publishing house is reinventing itself with technology

In the next two-three years, around 30 per cent of S. Chand's group revenues will come from digital products, asserts its MD Himanshu Gupta

Audio books: Reinventing the art of story-telling in the time of lockdown

Audio books score over kindle and e-books as they permit passive listening and allow you to soak in the stories even as you multi-task at home

Read from home

One should worry, of course, about what this is doing to one small business sector in particular that was already under stress: Bookshops

Coronavirus: Airtel allows free access to its e-book platform amid lockdown

Airtel acquired a strategic stake in Juggernaut in 2017

The impending return of the book

Why an anti-digital wave like the anti-carbon one is around the corner

Has the print book trumped digital? Beware of glib conclusions

In January 2011, Amazon announced that it was selling more eBooks than paperbacks

Readers listen to audiobooks as e-book sales slip

Sales of digital audiobooks up 35.3 per cent; paperback 6.1 per cent