Hachette Book Publishing India Opens; Orbit Expands
By Lynn Andriani , writing in Publishers Weekly
Hachette Book Publishing India is now in business. The group is a subsidiary of Hachette Livre UK, based in New Delhi and led by managing director Thomas Abraham. Its first titles will be released nationwide in India today. They are The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow (Hodder) and Cold Steel by Tim Bouquet and Byron Ousey (Little, Brown). Pricing will be in Indian rupees and all books will be in English.
Abraham said, “This is a dream start, and the team has done a great job. We’re very upbeat when we look at what’s to follow.”Hachette India currently has a staff of seven with two more signed on to join by the end of the month, and the company plans to up staff numbers to between 20 and 25 by the end of the year. In the first phase of its development, the new venture will concentrate on sales and marketing for Hachette’s trade lists from around the world. Hachette Book Publishing India will launch its local list in early 2009.
Abraham said, “This is a dream start, and the team has done a great job. We’re very upbeat when we look at what’s to follow.”Hachette India currently has a staff of seven with two more signed on to join by the end of the month, and the company plans to up staff numbers to between 20 and 25 by the end of the year. In the first phase of its development, the new venture will concentrate on sales and marketing for Hachette’s trade lists from around the world. Hachette Book Publishing India will launch its local list in early 2009.
Hi, I was wondering if you could answer a question for me. I an a writer who has written a 18,000 word novella, and was wondering what the market was like for novellas in NZ, i.e. is there much of a market at all, and does any publisher you know of specialise in short fiction? And also, what would be the best way to market my novella to a publisher?
ReplyDeleteIt is difficult to get any fiction by a previously unpublished author published let alone a novella!
ReplyDeleteNew Zealand is a small country, population 4 million, and has a small publishing industry. I think your chances there fore of getting published in NZ are slight.