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Westland Ltd |
Westland Ltd is a growing Indian trade publishing and distribution house, which includes EastWest Books and Tranquebar Press. Westland publishes general trade books: our list of titles includes books on food and cooking, spirituality and self-help, health and wellness, popular fiction, history and architecture, general reference, travel and a host of other subjects. The group has several decades of experience in book retail and distribution, and to move into publishing was a natural transition. With an experienced, energetic team of editors and designers based in Chennai and Delhi, Westland Ltd is one of the few publishing houses in India to bring both the North and the South together.
Corporate background
Formed through the merger of EastWest Books (Madras) Pvt Ltd and Westland Books Pvt Ltd, the companies have over sixty years of experience in the publishing and distribution business. Westland Ltd distributes for all major UK, US, and Indian publishers including Random House, Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, Penguin, Dover, Canongate, Grove Atlantic, Perseus, Egmont, Pan Macmillan and many others. The company pioneered the implementation of the long tail concept in distribution.
Westland is the publishing and distribution arm of Landmark Ltd, the company that runs the Landmark chain of bookstores. The majority stake in Landmark is owned by Trent Ltd, a Tata enterprise. |
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Tranquebar Press |
Tranquebar is the original name of an old Danish settlement in coastal India (now called Tharangambadi) where Indian publishing and printing really began.
Our emphasis is on new writing and experimental work of high literary standards in any genre. Our list of authors includes Jeet Thayil, Saeed Mirza, Samit Basu, Ruchir Joshi, Tishani Doshi, Mridula Koshy, Arun Krishnan and many more. |
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EastWest Books |
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This venerable Chennai publishing house was well-known as an academic publisher until the 1980s, when EastWest began its foray into literary publishing. The imprint was the first to publish works by Mahesh Dattani, Paul Zachariah and Esther David, among other writers, and was one of the first publishing houses in India to take a serious interest in translations and in Dalit writing. EastWest also ran the Indian Review of Books. Today, it specialises in books with a focus on South India—from literature to travelogues to local histories. |
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