Monthly Archives: August 2009

A Million Free e-Books!

Breaking News on Google Books
But of course you knew this. Good luck to all Indians searching for Playboy, Savita Bhabhi and other assorted pron.
PS: No, Flipkart still cannot send all you lovely people books in your email id(sic) or have PDFs available for free download - just because Google can.
UPDATE: Google Brought To Book Over [...]

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A Letter To Mr. Sam Miller

Dear Mr. Miller,
May I call you Sam? Please allow me to introduce my good self. Myself Tapas R. I know what you might be thinking, “What is this R.?” You see Sir, I am from a South Indian family where it is customary to add a lot of initials either preceding or following one’s name. [...]

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Beancounting Book Buying Behaviour

Mayank Dhingra seems to be on a mission. If you haven’t come across this yet, do chip in and help contribute in/to the analysis of buying books in India.
For the record, I haven’t participated. Inherent bias or some such thing. How much would I pay to peek at the results though, that’s the question.
In the [...]

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A Haiku For You

Startup Saturday;
Some meet in cafés and camps
We just come to work.
With my assurances that our quality of work far surpasses the quality of the above Haiku, have a good one.

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All Your Books Are Belong To Us

I have just transplanted myself from Flipkart Bangalore to Flipkart Delhi, and I wasn’t the least bit prepared!
I joined Flipkart when we had but one office, the one in Bangalore … it was also the office Flipkart had relocated to from its earlier home, a room in the house of first one Bansal, then the [...]

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