இந்தியப் பதிப்புத் தொழிலில், புத்தக விற்பனை ஒவ்வொரு ஆண்டும் 15 சதவிகிதம் வளர்ச்சி பெறுகிறதாம். இந்த வளர்ச்சி அடுத்த பத்தாண்டுகள் தொடரும் என்கிறார்கள். அதனால், பல வெளிநாட்டுப் பதிப்பகங்கள், தொடர்ந்து இந்தியாவில் தமது கிளையைத் தொடங்கியவண்ணம் உள்ளன. கார்டியனில் வந்துள்ள
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UK publishers' Indian colleagues have spent this month preparing for a world showcase of their books as guest of honour at this year's Frankfurt book fair in October. India was the first country to be invited in this way 20 years ago, and will this year be the first to be invited back. The theme, "Today's India", reflects the rapid changes and growth in Indian publishing and bookselling over the past two decades. Estimates suggest that sales of books are up 15% annually, a rate of growth that is expected to continue for the next 10 years. Buoyancy in the books business reflects the country's growing prosperity, as well as the gradual expansion of book retail outlets across the nation. All this, combined with the well-documented rise of the young, urban, educated and English-speaking Indian middle class, makes Indian publishing an especially interesting investment prospect. Random House is the most recent of the multinational publishers to set up a local house there. Only this month, Chiki Sarkar, previously a commissioning editor at Bloomsbury in London, has moved to New Delhi as editor-in-chief at Random House India. The company's first novel, Manju Kapur's Home, a story of family life across three generations of Delhi shopkeepers, is just out. At other, more established Indian operations (such as HarperCollins India, Oxford University Press India, Penguin Books India and Picador India), big names such as Vikram Seth and Salman Rushdie are being joined by a new generation of writers attracting big advances and international acclaim. As Thomas Abraham, the boss of Penguin Books India, says: "India has become significant on the world stage both in terms of being a key emerging market as well as a sourcing area for exciting new writing. I think we're going beyond the era when Indian writing was positioned primarily as exotica."