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Journey To Core
Journey To Core
• I
was
the
first
Editor
in
Chief
of
Random
House
India
and
grew
the
company
into
the
third
largest
publishing
house
in
India
with
revenue
of
Rs.
60
crores.
• In
my
three
years
at
Penguin,
I
and
my
team
have
transformed
the
company
with
growth
of
20%
in
revenues
and
its
biggest
profit
ever
in
over
5
years
• I
have
worked
with
almost
every
important
South
Asian
writer
–
Vikram
Seth,
Jhumpa
Lahiri,
Arundha?
Roy,
Amitav
Ghosh,
Ramachandra
Guha,
Ruskin
Bond,
Amartya
Sen
-‐
and
created
game
changing
books
which
range
from
poli?cal
memoirs
like
The
Accidental
Prime
Minister
to
diet
books
like
Don’t
Lose
your
Mind
Lose
your
Weight.
• I
have
a
very
strong
network
of
the
most
important
interna?onal
publishers
and
agents
who
I
have
worked
with
closely
for
over
a
decade.
• I
have
a
high
profile
outside
of
publishing
-‐
a
WEF
Young
Global
Leader
and
consistently
ranked
in
Business
Today’s
most
powerful
women
in
the
country
–
with
par?cularly
strong
links
in
Indian
and
interna?onal
media
The
team
• The
country’s
most
experienced
and
rigorous
team
of
editors,
sales,
marke?ng
and
design
personnel
will
join
me
from
PBI.
They
have
an
average
experience
of
15
years
in
publishing,
have
won
every
major
industry
award
and
are
part
of
the
country’s
top
publishing
team.
• Head
of
marke?ng
and
sales
have
handled
PBI’s
marke?ng
and
sales
departments
for
over
10
years.
Editors
include
veterans
who
have
worked
on
the
biggest
selling
and
most
pres?gious
books
in
the
country.
• Our
art
director
is
Bri?sh
and
has
worked
in
the
top
UK
publishing
houses
for
over
ten
years
before
coming
to
India.
Many
of
his
jackets
for
PBI
have
been
reused
by
publishers
abroad.
Success
story
1:
• Saw
the
gap
of
local
books
on
health
and
Developing
the
best
lifestyle.
Conceptualized
book
aaer
reading
selling
diet
book
in
an
ar?cle
about
author
and
created
the
India
book
with
her
(
we
wrote
it
together
in
a
coffee
shop)
and
spearheaded
an
innova?ve
marke?ng
plan
(
including
sending
well
known
journalists
on
her
diet
three
months
before
publica?on)
• Top
selling
diet
book
of
all
?me
in
India
selling
more
than
400,000
copies
and
consistently
in
the
Nielsen
Bookscan
charts
since
2008
genera?ng
more
than
Rs.
7.5
crores
in
revenue.
• The
book
singlehandedly
kick-‐started
a
trend
in
Indian
health
books
and
Random
House
India
created
an
imprint
primarily
dedicated
to
health
and
wellness
on
its
back
Success
story
2:
• Saw
the
gap
in
strong
narra?ves
Developing
the
best-‐ about
contemporary
Indian
poli?cs
selling
poliBcal
book
of
and
approached
Sanjaya
Baru,
ex
2014
media
advisor
of
PM
Manmohan
Singh
and
his
confidante
• Created
a
three
person
team
to
work
on
the
book,
a
punchy
package
with
provoca?ve
?tle
and
designed
a
massive
publicity
campaign
centered
on
prime?me
TV
news.
Published
it
to
coincide
with
elec?on
campaign.
• APM
was
the
country’s
most
talked
about
book
of
the
year,
selling
over
80,000
copies
in
6
months,
and
which
spawned
the
trend
in
2014
of
poli?cal
tell-‐alls.
Other
success
stories
TradiBonal
model:
to
create
a
list
with
a
60:40
split
towards
high
priced,
higher
margin
hardbacks.
Costs
to
be
?ght
with
low
overheads
and
with
most
of
the
money
spent
on
salaries.
The
physical
and
digital
business
will
work
closely
together.
Same
staff,
successful
digital
content
will
be
published
in
book
form,
authors
to
provide
digital
content.
•
A
publishing
program
for
phones:
short,
low
priced,
commercial
content
across
genres.
This
will
be
a
global
industry
first.
The
market
poten?al
is
massive.
Airtel
alone
has
200
million
users.
Publisher
will
get
30%
revenues
with
remaining
split
with
author,
phone
company
and
plajorm
provider.
Pricing
will
range
ini?ally
between
Rs.
5-‐10/story.
•
An
outsourcing
business
to
do
book
design
for
interna?onal
publishers.
This
is
a
high
margin
business
with
great
poten?al.
Margin
per
outsourced
jacket
is
about
Rs
30,000.
Bri?sh
publishers
pay
a
minimum
of
1000
gbp
to
freelancers.
Our
model
is
based
on
fees
of
500
gbp
and
with
our
cost
being
Rs
12500-‐15000/
jacket.
Turnover
(
on
revenues
aJer
trade
discount)
• The
phone
business
has
the
greatest
poten?al
for
growth.
By
2019
54%
of
device
connec?ons
will
be
smartphones
and
they
will
have
76.2%
of
total
traffic
(
source:
Cisco).
MVAS
(
mobile
value
added
service)
will
grow
at
22%
over
2013-‐18
(Technavio
forecast)
and
will
reach
$9.5
billion
in
2015
(
Wipro+
IAMAI
report).