HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt. Ltd. (formerly known as HarperCollins Publishers India Ltd.), a wholly-owned subsidiary of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., UK, came into being in 1991 and has completed more than 25 years in India. HarperCollins, as a brand, has completed over 200 years globally. HarperCollins India is one of the world’s largest entertainment-to-education publishers.
Established in 1997, Scholastic India runs a dynamic publishing programme that aims to bring out innovative titles from the best of Indian authors and illustrators. Scholastic works closely with teachers, parents and students to encourage reading and promote the highest quality of reading and educational material in English.
Scholastic distributes its products and services through a variety of channels including school-based book clubs and book fairs. It also works with trade distributors to sell books through retail stores throughout the Indian subcontinent.
The Indian authors published by Scholastic are Ruskin Bond, Anushka Ravishankar, Paro Anand, Manjula Padmanabhan, Meera Uberoi, and Samit Basu, among others.
The National Book Trust (NBT), India is an apex body established by the Government of India (Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education) in the year 1957. The objectives of the NBT are to produce and encourage the production of good literature in English, Hindi and other Indian languages and to make such literature available at moderate prices to the public and to bring out book catalogues, arrange book fairs/exhibitions and seminars and take all necessary steps to make the people book minded.