#MYPUBLISHER CLOSING ARCHIVE#

#MYPUBLISHER CLOSING ARCHIVE#

Until someone at Amazon got this weird idea that they should be profitable,” Journalist Nidheesh MK tweeted.ScholarWorks is a digital archive designed to capture, preserve, and make openly available research, creative works, and the other scholarly output of the California State University system. They gave us some of the sharpest non fiction books in recent times. I stand to loss heavily by their closure. Several of Westland’s authors and readers took to Twitter to express their disappointment on the shutting down of a “great publishing house.” Its key publishing imprints include ‘Context’, which publishes award-winning literary fiction and non-fiction ‘Eka’, which publishes the best of contemporary writing in Indian languages and in translation ‘Tranquebar’, home to the best new fiction from the Indian subcontinent, the eponymous Westland Sport and Westland Business and Red Panda, which publishes a range of books for children of different ages. Read /juY7GKxpxO- Jairaj Singh February 1, 2022įounded in 1962, Westland is one of India’s largest English-language trade publishers, bringing out print books and e-books in genres ranging from popular and literary fiction to business, politics, biography, spirituality, popular science, health, and self-help. 💔 Here are some of their most outstanding and hard-hitting non fiction books to come out in recent times. Terrible news: Amazon to shut down publishing house Westland Books. The Westland team is one of the finest in the business and there are many emotions and memories of my publishing journey with them that shall always remain with me,” Sanghi told PTI.Īmazon has said it took the decision after a thorough review.

“It is sad to see the exit of a publishing institution. It was particularly sad for bestselling fiction writer Ashwin Sanghi, who wrote his debut novel with Westland in 2008 and went on to publish a “dozen books” over that many years. The news regarding the closure came as a shock to the editors, Westland team members, and its public relations agency, who according to a staff member requesting anonymity, were informed about the decision Tuesday only. 7RGcyBjq8H- Manu S Pillai February 2, 2022 I am grateful to Westland for publishing it, taking it through several reprints, and helping me generally as a writer. My book 'The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin' published by Westland will cease to be available from Feb 28.

I owe much to personally,” Manu S Pillai tweeted.

“My book ‘The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin’ published by Westland will cease to be available from Feb 28. Feel profoundly sad to see a fine publishing house go down and hope there is a last minute plan to save it,” read Tweet by Saba Naqvi. “So I have the letter from #Westland about the rights for my book Shades of Saffron: From Vajpayee to Modi reverting to me by end February. The publishing company, which was acquired by Amazon from Trent Ltd, a subsidiary of Tata Group, in 2016, has published works of several bestselling authors including Josy Joseph, Chetan Bhagat, Ashwin Sanghi, Rashmi Bansal, Manu S Pillai, K R Meera, M Mukundan, Anuja Chauhan and Ravi Subramanian. Feel profoundly sad to see a fine publishing house go down and hope there is a last minute plan to save it.- Saba Naqvi February 2, 2022 So I have the letter from #Westland about the rights for my book Shades of Saffron: from Vajpayee to Modi reverting to me by end February.

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