India’s largest digital literature platform, Pratilipi has partnered with a traditional publishing house for the first time. The new imprint partnership titled Ekatra brings together Pratilipl, India’s largest digital literature platform, and Manjul Publishing, best known for translating the Harry Potter books into Indian languages. The partnership will carry books in regional languages including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and English as both print and e-books.
Under this partnership, they will carry books and short story collections for first-time and established authors from Pratilipi’s platform. “Titles will initially be made available in 4 languages including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and English 5 April 2020: Pratilipi and Manjul Publishing house have launched the first four of 50 books which will see leading novels and short story collections from Pratilipi published in print for the first time,” a press statement read. The first book was released on 25th March and the other three are available to preorder on Amazon.
The first four books include Pratilipi’s top hits Tashree by Sumit Menaria (published on 25 March), Angoothi Ka Bhooth by Manish Sharma, Anakalaniya by Sanjay Vaidya and Bujgavan! by Kanishk Hivrekar (pre orders available now). Ekatra represents a key step towards Pratilipi’s vision to democratize story-telling across languages, devices and formats, particularly with licensing deals for authors in this case.
