For Indians growing up in the 1990s, the year 2020 holds a special significance. APJ Abdul Kalam set 2020 as the target for India to graduate to a developed country. He inspired a whole generation to aim for that goal.
2020 is here and even though we are not quite where he envisioned us yet, it is also true that we have come a long way. While it is a must to keep our eyes on the goal, it is also important to take stock of our progress. In that spirit, we look back on what 2019 was like at Pothi.com.
Over 2000 New Titles Across 20 Languages
In 2019, 2000 new print titles were published on Pothi.com across 20 different languages. Alongside, 800 new ebook titles also made their way to our store. There was poetry; there was fiction; there was spirituality, history, science and technology, graphical arts and a whole lot more. Let’s get a taste of the rich buffet of books on offer.
Besides non-fiction, we also have some literariness. Take City 5, the first in a series of anthologies of contemporary short fiction and poetry from South Asia, both in English and the vernacular (translated into English). Among the poetry books, check out the 100 Splendid Voices- Celebrating Womanhood by Charu Sharma and Jennis Joy Jacob and Sufi Coffee by Mashook Rahman. For the art-inclined, Shirish Deshpande lays out the rules of sketching in The Omnibus of Pen Sketching.
The New Mobile-Friendly Store
We continued our efforts to make Pothi.com the best place for DIY publishing, and in 2019 we primarily focused on our e-Commerce store. The new Pothi.com store made its appearance towards the end of the year. The store is fully mobile-friendly now. No matter where you are accessing it from, it works great. The book search is now integrated with the store, so you can find the book you are looking for easily or browse the categories to see what others are publishing. You can also see the best selling books, new titles as they are being published every day and the collections curated by our resident editor. There is more in the pipeline that will be going live in 2020.
The new year is already in full swing and we hope you all had a great start of the year and the decade. We would love to hear about your writing and publishing plans for 2020 and how we can help you achieve those. If there is some topic you would want us to talk about, please leave a comment or shoot us an email.
We wish all of you a great and productive year ahead!
