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Remembering Genevieve Young, the publishing editor who played a key role in creating Erich Segal's Love Story
•She also edited the groundbreaking photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks, married him in the 1970s and later helped oversee his estate.
Pakistan's publishing industry, battered by coronavirus lockdown, charts a new course for a post-pandemic future
Manik Sharma •The coronavirus pandemic and related lockdown may well be among the Pakistani publishing industry’s toughest setbacks yet.
'Delhi Riots 2020' authors file police complaint against former publisher Bloomsbury India, writer William Dalrymple and others
Fp Staff •The complaint charges Bloomsbury India with "expunging the work and efforts of the writers, and without their knowledge or consent, leaking a PDF version of the book in public", while accusing Dalrymple and others of "offences of criminal intimidation and statements creating and promoting enmity, hatred, and ill will".
After Bloomsbury India drops book amid online censure, Garuda Prakashan announces it will publish Delhi Riots 2020
Fp Staff •Garuda Prakashan made the announcement on Twitter on Sunday, 23 August
Indian Railways spurred Hindi pulp fiction's boom. With trains stalled amid COVID crisis, waning book biz faces a bust
Manik Sharma •The Indian Railways was possibly the largest moving library of Hindi pulp fiction. That is, until the coronavirus pandemic.
Following Harper’s open letter arguing for openness to 'opposing views', debate focuses on signatories, furthering divisiveness
•Writers and intellectuals in the US signed a letter calling for tolerance toward opposing views. Following debate has revolved around choice of signatories.
As #PublishingPaidMe trends, authors share race-based pay gap and publishers vow to improve diversity
•Using #PublishingPaidMe authors and book publishing employees are speaking out against the homogeneity of their industry and how much writers of colour are paid, issues that are gaining urgency as protests against systemic racism continue around the US.
Sonny Mehta, Alfred A Knopf editor and publishing giant, passes away at 76; brother-in-law Naveen Patnaik expresses grief
Fp Staff •Sonny Mehta studied at the Sanawar School in India and the Sevenoaks School in UK, where he won an open scholarship to Cambridge University. The son of a diplomat, he is credited with starting the Paladin and Picador publishing houses.
The Elena Ferrante effect: In Italy, female writers are — at long last — gaining much-deserved recognition
•Elena Ferrante's best-selling books are inspiring female novelists and shaking up Italy’s male-dominated literary establishment | via @nytimes
Reliable Copy, a small publishing initiative from Bengaluru, intends to change the way the business is approached
Manik Sharma •Reliable Copy, currently a small initiative that founders Nihaal Faizal and Niharika Peri operate out of their apartments has a tinge of novelty to it.