Ananth Padmanabhan: The page turner
Live MintIn the pre-election world of memes, a journalist and a publisher meeting at Delhi’s Khan Market might have sounded like the beginning of a tired joke. “A lot depended on the guy on the shop floor having a sense of who wanted what, and being able to reorder the right books,” says Padmanabhan. Padmanabhan took hundreds of train rides across the length and breadth of the country, doing rounds of book stores, meeting distributors, visiting book fairs and building a market for new imprints. Since the books had not reached the market on time, I remember going to the DHL office in Bengaluru, taking copies in a bag and hopping on my first flight in order to follow Shashi Tharoor on his book tours across the country,” he says. “Every three years over the last 25 years, I have experienced something or the other that has impacted the industry and it was teaching me quite a bit,” says Padmanabhan.
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