tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12398229.post2860610195395449359..comments2024-03-03T16:02:49.653+05:30Comments on runawaysun: Bound and gaggedBiswajithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04137874016611139677noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12398229.post-57956952294203916372008-06-25T14:57:00.000+05:302008-06-25T14:57:00.000+05:30@ SatyaThank you for visiting my blog and commenti...@ Satya<BR/>Thank you for visiting my blog and commenting on it in such detail. I agree with you entirely.<BR/>Who should take responsibility for collecting and compiling data on the Indian publishing industry? FIP? FPBAI? NBTI? I feel they all should. But who am I to make this statement?<BR/>Since it’s expected that more and more foreign publishers will enter the Indian market, perhaps, everyone is waiting for them to do the necessary research and assessment for us.<BR/>Although there are issues of investment and management which require deeper understanding (as you’ve pointed out), I guess what’s important for us all is the fact that the Indian publishing industry is flourishing.Biswajithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04137874016611139677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12398229.post-74390977568870657712008-06-20T21:40:00.000+05:302008-06-20T21:40:00.000+05:30As a book publisher, I share your frustration at n...As a book publisher, I share your frustration at not finding any information on the size of the Indian book industry, having myself looked for authentic data for over five years.<BR/><BR/>It is not that publishers don't want to disclose industry figures, the reality is that we don't know, since no one is responsible for collecting and compiling the data from individual publishers. What publishers can talk about is data on their own businesses, but not all maybe ready to do so.<BR/><BR/>It has been said that the Indian publishing industry is worth Rs. 7,000 crores and is growing at about 25-30%. While most publishers will be able to validate the growth rate of 25-30% over the past few years, based on the growth of their own businesses, the market size figure of Rs. 7,000 crores is debatable, simply because there is no sense of how this figure was arrived at. I am similarly skeptical about for NBT's more recent claim of Rs.10,000 crores too.<BR/><BR/>It is sad that the book trade organisations in India like the Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP) and the Federation of Publishers and Booksellers Association of India (FPBAI) have not yet been able to produce authentic reports based on inputs from their members. This is something that must be done sooner than later, since the lack of basic industry data is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for the infusion of capital into the book publishing industry in India.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com