We are a trade organization. We stand for the promotion and advancement of Publishers having a presence in India as well as to protect the common interest of members and professionals engaged in Global Publishing.
Association of Publishers in India acts on specific issues with the objective of expanding the market for Publishers who publish books/content in the following areas:
Academic and Professional
Children’s
Educational
Scholarly and Reference
Trade
Vocational
We are engaged in market research & compiling market statistics. We run a number of industry specific events and seminars. We act against piracy and protect IPR related matters.
Executive Committee
Nitasha Devasar
President
Nitasha Devasar is Managing Director, Taylor & Francis, India and South Asia, since 2013. She has 25 years of experience in academic publishing and her edited Publishers on Publishing: Inside India's Book Business was published in 2018. She is on the Editorial Board of Logos, Journal of the World Publishing Community, published by Brill. Prior to joining Taylor & Francis, she was Academic Publishing Director at Oxford University Press India for 12 years. In a short entrepreneurial stint in 2012-13, Nitasha set up PublishInc., a consultancy servicing the gap between the repositories of research content and publishers. Nitasha is Adviser with the Women Leadership Forum of Asia and was lauded as Channel News Asia's Women of Substance in Asia in 2017.
Neeraj Jain
Vice President
Neeraj Jain is Managing Director, Scholastic India. Born and brought up in Delhi, Neeraj has a keen interest in sports and music. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in commerce from Hansraj College, University of Delhi, Chartered Accountancy from Institute of Chartered Accountancy in India, CMA and CFM from Institute of Management Accountants, USA and Executive MBA from ISB, Hyderabad. While doing his Executive MBA he attended programs in FDC Brazil, Kellogg School of Management and Wharton Business School in USA.
Sesh Seshadri
General Secretary
Sesh Seshadri is the Director of Lonely Planet India. With a career spanning over four decades, he played a vital role in Lonely Planet’s entry into the Indian market with the launch of its series of Travel Guides in 2012. He established a publishing consulting company O.V.E.R.L.E.A.F. in 1997 which passionately works towards furnishing classrooms with quality learning and providing world class teaching resources. Previously, he has been associated with Oxford University Press (OUP) for over 25 years.
Aparna Sharma
Joint Secretary
Aparna Sharma is the Managing Director of DK India. Her mission over the last decade has been to make the India operations an integral part of DK worldwide. In her words, "My vision was to make these ground-breaking titles accessible in India and break the perception of DK being a west centric content creator". Aparna joined DK almost 19 years ago, prior to which she ran her own communication design and multimedia company.
Prashant Mishra
Treasurer
Prashant Mishra heads BMJ India & South Asia as Managing Director. He has led BMJ in South Asia since 2008 when he was the Country Manager for India. Under his leadership, the sales, marketing, technology and editorial teams have grown over the past 10 years and across two offices - in Noida and Mumbai. He’s on the steering committee of Global Academy of Medical Education (GAME), India and teaches Business Communication as a guest faculty at the Birla Inst of Management & Tech (BIMTECH), Greater Noida, India.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Over 9037 Number of Publishers in the country
Over 40000 people directly employed by publishers
21800+ number of organized and unorganized book retailers in India
16 Languages in which organized/semi-organized publishing exists in India
Books account for 15% of e-commerce trade in the country
70% of publishers in India have digitized their content to produce e-books
School Education (K-12) accounts for INR 221.7 billion of the overall Indian books market in 2014-15; Higher Education accounts for INR 66.1 billion
