One of the things I like about French is that it is full of euphemisms. Also given that anyone speaking French sounds either polite or romantic (albeit in a very facial paralysis kind of way, where the lips are always too close to each other), it’s a great language to be impolite in.
Case in point: [...]
Category Archives: Book Industry
BBF09 And All That Jazz …
One reason I’ve been unavailable and unreachable has been the Bangalore Book Festival 2009 (organised by the Bangalore Booksellers and Publishers Assocation, scheduled to kick-off at around 11am tomorrow. As a matter of fact, we just got back from there, setting up the stall and whatnot.
We’re at Stalls #183 and #184, just down the lane [...]
Startup Saturday: Flipkart & Online Retail
The troops just came home — Shivku and Binny and Mekin and Abhishek and Vishal and Ashwin and Vijay.
For those not in the know, they spent this morning at NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore for a Startup Saturday Showcase. Given that “Online Retail” was the agenda, the presentation time was shared between Flipkart.com and Picsquare.com (an Infibeam [...]
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Decoding the Promo Code
Ok, here’s why we have the friendly little box that asks you if you have a Flipkart Promotional Code:
a> It’s been there since the first time we had offers through some campaign or the other, co-branded ones, usually. Some of those codes are still valid, which is why we haven’t “disabled” the promo code box.
b> [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Flipkart F.A.Qs and F.U.Q.s - Same Book Different Prices?
Image: Hägar the Horrible Comic Strip
©King Feature Syndicate, Inc. (Artist: Chris Browne)
Question: “Why does the same book show up with different prices. What’s the difference?”
The Fairly Short Answer: There are many reasons for price differences, but primarily it is owing to the following:
1> Different Publishers: The same book can be and is printed by [...]
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