Penguin India is delighted to announce the launch of eBooks

Jul 2012

 
July 1 7, 2012

Penguin Books India is delighted to present its first tranche of eBooks. This will be the first extensive list of Indian ebooks to be published internationally by an Indian publisher and will be available from all the major international ebook retailers – Amazon, Apple, Kobo and Google, Gardners, Sony, OLF, Apabi, Go Spoken/Mobcast, OverDrive, Txtr, Ebooks.com, IGroup and Baker & Taylor.

The first list of over 240 titles consists of all our new books published in 2012 and select best sellers from the backlist. Over the course of the following months we will continue to publish the remaining backlist while publishing our front list simultaneously in both print and ebook editions. By the end of this year Penguin India will have the largest digital catalog of Indian ebooks to be available on sale.

Penguin India ebooks will be priced to respective geographies and the full list of our ebooks will go on sale in India at local prices when the ebook industry develops further here. Right now, readers in India will be able to purchase ebooks from any of the retailers listed above at international prices.

Being digitally pioneering is one of Penguin India’s major focuses; Penguin India is the only publisher to have a cross-platform mobile app, available on Apple, Android, Blackberry and Nokia, a redesigned, revamped and upgraded website to a state-of-the-art, navigation-friendly, comprehensive brand portal. Additionally, Penguin India’s robust and proactive presence across social media has made them one of the most followed and liked publishers online.

In its 25th year, Penguin India, Asia’s largest English language publisher, continues to be the most creative, innovative and customer-focussed publishing company in India. In addition to ebooks, Penguin India has launched an exciting range of collectible merchandise this year which are now available in books and gift stores around the country.
 
About Penguin Books India

Founded in 1985, Penguin Books India is the largest English language trade publisher in the subcontinent. Headquartered in New Delhi, the company’s commercial activity includes the publishing of its own books in the English language as well as in Hindi, and the distribution of books of publishers including the Penguin Group, A&C Black, Atlantic Books, Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, Granta, Hay House, Icon, Kyle Cathie, Marshall Cavendish, Mira, Quercus, Sterling Publishing and Zubaan. Known for its strong fiction and narrative non-fiction list, Penguin India publishes across virtually every segment.

Penguin’s biggest publishing initiatives in the recent past include the launch of its Indian Language Publishing programme in 2005; Portfolio, its business books imprint, in 2006; Allen Lane, the imprint of ideas, and Penguin Studio, a dedicated imprint for visual books, in 2008; Hamish Hamilton, the imprint for literary fiction and non-fiction, in 2009; Metro Reads and Penguin Ananda, the MindBodySpirit imprint, in 2010; and Puffin Young Adult in 2011. Penguin publishes its children’s titles under the Puffin imprint.