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Tech giant Apple has quietly launched a catalogue of books narrated by artificial intelligence in a move with potentially huge implications for the multi-billion dollar audiobook industry

Pulitzer Prize winner Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of The Cell is a beautifully crafted exposition of the author's own lifelong fascination with the subject

The book celebrates Abbas by showing how this "boy from Panipat, land of Sufis, land of battles" introduced the small-town sensibilities to Indian cinema.

Self-publishing picks up among the young; mainstream book deals remain largely elusive

Jio is working on JioBook that will have an embedded 4G chip; it is expected to be priced below Rs 20,000

The JioBook is currently available for government department employees via the GeM at Rs 19,500. For others, it is expected to be available around Diwali

Geetanjali Shree, the first Hindi litterateur to receive the International Booker Prize, talks in an interview to Sandeep Kumar on many topics including the impact of this award

A collection of youthful letters from her year in the country hints at the ideas that eventually shape Wendy Doniger's research and prolific writing

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has announced to sell SlideShare, the hosting platform for presentations and other professional content to US-based e-book and audiobook subscription service Scribd

In the next two-three years, around 30 per cent of S. Chand's group revenues will come from digital products, asserts its MD Himanshu Gupta

Audio books score over kindle and e-books as they permit passive listening and allow you to soak in the stories even as you multi-task at home

One should worry, of course, about what this is doing to one small business sector in particular that was already under stress: Bookshops

Airtel acquired a strategic stake in Juggernaut in 2017

Why an anti-digital wave like the anti-carbon one is around the corner

In January 2011, Amazon announced that it was selling more eBooks than paperbacks

Sales of digital audiobooks up 35.3 per cent; paperback 6.1 per cent