How to start a Publishing Company in India

[Sudheendra]

Hii,

We are planning to start a small publishing Company, basically to publish and distribute books on Corporate Laws HR, Education, Career and Competetion related etc.

We are in the process of collaborating with a small publisher , who will help us to set up, print and distribute our books. All financial investments and supervision will be by us.

I would like to have some inputs on various costs invloved in the books publishing and distribution like Printing, Royalty, Distribution commission, logistic cost etc.

Invite suggestions and inputs from people in the similar industry

Thanks

Sudheendra
Mobile No. 98200 88394
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[CinnamonTeal Print and Publishing]

Hi Sudheendra,

Thank you for joining this forum. I wish you well in your endeavour.

I believe that producing a book is the easy part. What is difficult is getting that book in the hands of readers. Distribution remains the biggest bottleneck in India and if you can crack that code, you have made it.

So get hold of one good distributor first.

Warm Regards,

Leonard @ cinnamonteal

[Amitabh Mitra]

I admit with Leonard
I believe, instead of starting a publidhing house, one should start a Distribution Company which would accept all small time publishers and Print on Demand Publishers

Amitabh Mitra
www.amitabhmitra.com
http.//poetsprintery.book.co.za

[Bill Gough]

For sure.

I've regained rights to all but one of my books that were published by 'professional' publishers - "David:Blackwood:Master Printmaker" (-http://www.amazon.com/David-Blackwood-Master-Print-Maker/dp/1552975363) & issued them thru lulu.com (http://stores.lulu.com/williamgough) - I have reviews, bookstores who usually stock my work. Yet, again and again, I'm finding, as in the Sister Arts I follow, that the key to books is also distribution. My wife & I started a press (pilothillpress.com) only to learn the difficulty of attracting the kind of attention to sell books & allows solid payments to authors - even if excluding funds going to the publisher!

Lately, I've wondered if it is not only distribution but also an out-moded view of what makes a book publishable; of what makes an author 'special,' that creates the 'gatekeeper' The block is merely a construct based on various Anglo-American views of what constitutes scholarship and what makes a 'real' 'published' writer.
The apparent block is distribution - but, in my view, that block is a sub-set of a larger issue( in the same way that language is a sub-set of communication).
Seems to me that, as I read sites all over the world, there are plenty of us capable of running and assisting distribution of all to all.
At the same time, we also need (as in all times of such change) to articulate what we are leaving behind.

What we truly see in the rear-view mirror, even if we're walking, is the end of a cultural apparatus which was designed to exclude. As I notice what's happening with the world supply of doctors, with the number of paid positions at Universities and other indicators, I see the last filter of a controlling force that was, for much of its sad life, so invisible it could stay alive in the Arts through exerting control in an 'autopilot' process, an exclusion of the 'rabble' (most of us) & designed to control 90 percent of us - this is what we face. But, happily, it is no longer here - like the Wizard of Oz, it depends on controlling the outer door.