Amazon Vs Hachette : Amazon writes to authors Got this email today from Amazon. My stance on this…. Books need to be priced higher… ebooks and paperbacks both need to be […]
Amazon I am sorry. You lost me on this one.
GOD IS A GAMER – worlds first BITCOIN thriller
My next book GOD IS A GAMER releases on 5th of September. GOD IS A GAMER, is the worlds first Bitcoin Thriller. A hundred chapters to read in a little over 320 pages, […]
Book Marketing : The Myths (TED Talk)
In February this year, I had the opportunity to visit SITM, Pune to give a TED talk on Book Marketing:The Myths. The talk was largely about how every book needs to be […]
Changes at Penguin
Received this note from the CEO of Penguin, announcing the changes post the merger of Penguin and Random House. Am putting this up here because the changes are in public domain, in […]
Stop the Hypocrisy. Penguin did the right thing
Too much is being made of the pulping of Wendy Doniger’s “The Hindus – An Alternative History.” I guess it all started with Arundhati Roy’s open letter to Penguin in the Times […]
I was like Kejriwal. Glad I changed
Many many years back, when I took up my first role as a Business Manager in a Bank, I was a bit like Arvind Kejriwal. Brash. Loud. Visibly aggressive. I always felt […]
Take time out for old friends….
When I got a call a few days back from a Sangeeta Modi, a good friend, asking me if I would be free for dinner on Sunday, my heart sank. Sunday, is […]
A Q&A with bestselling author Ravi Subramanian AND a giveaway of Bankerupt
Originally posted on Fortytwoandcounting:
When I first met Ravi at Preeti Shenoy’s Mumbai launch of her book The Secret Wish List, I realised that he wore his achievements very very lightly. To…
How do we get our children to read ?
Yesterday I was asked a very interesting question by Jaya Bhattacharji Rose, a friend. It was about my daughter Anusha. “How did you get Anusha to become such a voracious reader?” she […]
The PRESSURE of being an Author
Nicholas Sparks once said, “There’s always pressure. A great deal of pressure when writing, since my first books were so successful.” Jeffrey Archer in Jaipur said, “Every time a book of mine […]
Ravi Subramanian 