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'Sorry Amazon': French supermarket boosts local booksellers with online platform
Lit lovers have been fuming over the decision to shut bookstores as 'non-essential' in the lockdownAnger against Amazon has long been fuelled by its exploitation of EU tax rules
1 min read5 Nov 2020Strand Book Stall, Mumbai’s iconic bookshop, down shutters after 70 years
The curtains came down a day after the ninth death anniversary of its founder T.N. Shanbagh, who started it as a kiosk at Colaba's Strand Cinema in 1948, and in 1953, moved it to south Mumbai's Fort area
1 min read28 Feb 2018Letter from... a railway station bookstore
I have destroyed any chance of mine ever again finding a good book serendipitously. Because these days I only read what everybody else likes. Or at least rates 4 out of 5 stars
5 min read16 Oct 2016Amazon tries bookstores because, you know, it’s Amazon
It's fair to say few people truly know what Amazon's goals are with its physical stores. To believe in Amazon is to give it the benefit of doubt when it pursues projects that seem ill-advised
3 min read4 Feb 2016How well do you know your bookstores?
Each week, the winner of the Mint Business Quiz receives a Rs10,000 Da Milano computer bag
1 min read8 Nov 2015Higginbotham’s in Chennai
What started as a small bookstore on Mount Road (now Anna Salai) in Madras has been a haven for book lovers for over 170 years
10 May 2015Publishers up against major obstacles: David Davidar
The author and publisher on his new book, the independent bookstores and political biographies he would like to publish
7 min read3 Jan 2015Barnes and Noble chairman plans offer for bookstore business
Riggio, who owns nearly 30% of Barnes and Noble, did not disclose how much he would offer for the stores
3 min read26 Feb 2013Online bookstores inching their way to popularity
Online bookstores inching their way to popularity
4 min read28 Mar 2011Popular Topics
Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared