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In any case, AIs are known to be biased, to have hallucinations, and to lack a sense of reality. A shade of uncertainty thus remains

Updated On: 26 Apr 2024 | 11:10 PM IST

Jaipur Literature Festival 2024: In a conversation with Business Standard, Galgut said currently non-fiction is thriving, and fiction is more under stress

Updated On: 07 Feb 2024 | 2:42 PM IST

As many as 200 fiction titles of publishing house HarperCollins will be available at Pratilipi, announced the digital storytelling platform on Monday. The e-books, both in Hindi and English, will be available on the platform starting June. "Pratilipi currently gives the readers an access to over 10 million stories on our platform and with the new partnership (with HarperCollins), we are looking forward to expanding our existing catalogue to give our subscribers more quality content to consume. This is just a first step in our partnership and we look forward to taking this relationship further by adding more books in the future," said Ranjeet Pratap Singh, co-founder and CEO of Pratilipi, in a statement. The selected titles include "Do Log" by Gulzar, "The Living Mountain" by Amitav Ghosh, "Nar Nareeshwar" by Perumal Murugan, "A Hundred Little Flames" by Preeti Shenoy, "The Vault of Vishnu" by Ashwin Sanghi, "Dopehri" by Pankaj Kapur and "One Arranged Murder" by Chetan ...

Updated On: 22 May 2023 | 3:26 PM IST

Tech giant Apple has quietly launched a catalogue of books narrated by artificial intelligence in a move with potentially huge implications for the multi-billion dollar audiobook industry

Updated On: 06 Jan 2023 | 9:00 AM IST

Pulitzer Prize winner Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of The Cell is a beautifully crafted exposition of the author's own lifelong fascination with the subject

Updated On: 10 Nov 2022 | 1:08 AM IST

The book celebrates Abbas by showing how this "boy from Panipat, land of Sufis, land of battles" introduced the small-town sensibilities to Indian cinema.

Updated On: 21 Oct 2022 | 10:01 PM IST

Self-publishing picks up among the young; mainstream book deals remain largely elusive

Updated On: 10 Oct 2022 | 6:02 PM IST

Jio is working on JioBook that will have an embedded 4G chip; it is expected to be priced below Rs 20,000

Updated On: 05 Oct 2022 | 12:09 AM IST

The JioBook is currently available for government department employees via the GeM at Rs 19,500. For others, it is expected to be available around Diwali

Updated On: 04 Oct 2022 | 4:20 PM IST

Geetanjali Shree, the first Hindi litterateur to receive the International Booker Prize, talks in an interview to Sandeep Kumar on many topics including the impact of this award

Updated On: 14 Sep 2022 | 7:00 AM IST

A collection of youthful letters from her year in the country hints at the ideas that eventually shape Wendy Doniger's research and prolific writing

Updated On: 15 Jul 2022 | 10:21 PM IST

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has announced to sell SlideShare, the hosting platform for presentations and other professional content to US-based e-book and audiobook subscription service Scribd

Updated On: 12 Aug 2020 | 3:51 PM IST

In the next two-three years, around 30 per cent of S. Chand's group revenues will come from digital products, asserts its MD Himanshu Gupta

Updated On: 31 May 2020 | 10:50 AM IST

Audio books score over kindle and e-books as they permit passive listening and allow you to soak in the stories even as you multi-task at home

Updated On: 03 May 2020 | 8:44 PM IST

One should worry, of course, about what this is doing to one small business sector in particular that was already under stress: Bookshops

Updated On: 22 Apr 2020 | 11:43 PM IST

Airtel acquired a strategic stake in Juggernaut in 2017

Updated On: 26 Mar 2020 | 2:35 PM IST

Why an anti-digital wave like the anti-carbon one is around the corner

Updated On: 26 Aug 2019 | 11:19 PM IST

In January 2011, Amazon announced that it was selling more eBooks than paperbacks

Updated On: 10 May 2017 | 11:53 AM IST

Sales of digital audiobooks up 35.3 per cent; paperback 6.1 per cent

Updated On: 25 Sep 2016 | 9:55 PM IST