18 articles — industry insights, editorial notes, and publishing news from The Book Nexus.
Five new titles join the published catalog today — 260,000 words of Hindi-titled fiction that push the archive past 94 books. Here's what each one brings to the table.
Read article →We started with 50 curated books. Today we have 94 published titles with over 5 million words readable for free. Here's how the catalog evolved and where it's headed.
Read article →Not every book in a book archive is equal. Our three-tier quality system explains how we think about editorial standards at scale.
Read article →The story of how The Book Nexus came to publish one of the most prolific book archives in Indian publishing history.
Read article →Our flagship author thinks in Marathi and writes in English. What does bilingual publishing mean for Indian independent literature?
Read article →The Book Nexus announces The First Fifty — the inaugural collection of 50 curated books selected from Atharva Inamdar's archive of 1,500+ books.
Read article →India provides free ISBNs to registered publishers. Here is the process, the timeline, and the lessons from registering over a thousand titles.
Read article →An overview of the Indian self-publishing landscape, the role of ISBNs, and what independent publishers are doing differently.
Read article →Putting a book online is easy. Making it genuinely readable — comfortable, navigable, accessible — is harder. Here are our standards.
Read article →A guide for aspiring authors on our submission process, what we look for, and how to prepare your manuscript.
Read article →Some of our books contain sexual content, violence, and heavy themes. How we handle content warnings without being preachy or spoilery.
Read article →Behind the scenes of curating 50 books from a library of 1,500+ books — the editorial process and quality tiers.
Read article →We publish 68 full books online for free. This is not charity. This is strategy. Here is the math.
Read article →All published books by Atharva Inamdar are now available to read for free online, with full chapter navigation, reading controls, and download options.
Read article →How do you select 68 books from 1,537 books? Here is our editorial process, step by step.
Read article →The technical story of building thebooknexus.com — a complete publisher website with catalog, author profiles, and blog — using only free tools.
Read article →When your flagship fiction author writes five non-fiction books about life prosperity, you pay attention. The story behind our most unexpected series.
Read article →How we assigned ISBNs to 1,194 titles and what independent publishers need to know about the Indian ISBN system.
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