News: The Importance of India's book market is likely to increase


In just the last few years, India has become the fastest-growing English-language book market in the world, and offers great opportunities for those publishers willing to invest in this complex and competitive market. Although it is estimated to be only one-third of the size of the UK's, its importance will be transformed if the accepted growth rate of 10 per cent per annum since 2003 continues.  This is according to Rob Francis, author of the India Publishing Market Profile published recently on the PA's Global Publishing Information (GPI) website.