Publishing Next’s date with New Delhi

Publishing Next at the New Delhi World Book Fair, will examine a wide variety of issues. The conference will start with deliberations on Indian language publishing. In what is an ongoing focus on Indian languages, the panel will examine the state of publishing in languages such as Maithili, Kannada, Punjabi, Hindi and Santali. This session will examine the issues encountered by publishers publishing in these languages.

The next session will see panellist put their heads together about the impending growth of ePublishing in India. Infrastructural issues that have undermined the proliferation of eBooks in India, issues such as the non-availability of adequate fonts, the absence of a home-grown reader and the absence of well-evolved tools such as OCR that could facilitate the development of eBooks within an Indian context will be heavily discussed and debated. 

The third session planned for the conference is ‘Going Solo: Examining Self-Publishing’ which will focus on the phenomenon of self-publishing and examine its place in today's publishing environment in India. It will examine the causes for its popularity despite the fact that new publishing houses are emerging ever so rapidly and how technology may have catalysed this popularity. The session will also exchange views on the so-called negative aspects of self-publishing: the fact that it is equated with vanity publishing and disdain among traditional publishers and retailers alike. 

The day will conclude with a workshop titled "ePublishing 101", which will serve a basic primer on digital data development that would address issues mainly raised by publishers with limited resources