Sitting on something you wrote dreaming of finding a publisher? Or are you hoping to take an independent road to self-publish the material? A bridge of sorts is what the Sapna Book House is offering. Writers across ages can turn to ‘SapnaINK’, a new launch medium for wannabe authors. Once a manuscript is accepted, a writer becomes an author in seven days flat!
What began in December 2014 has seen almost 40 titles being approved. Among the ones published under SapnaINK are 12-year-old Manaswini’s Bedtime Stories for Children and 79 year-old A.R. Chandrasekar’s Society or Self – Which should we care for more?
“Writers who have had a longing to see their book published but are on a sticky wicket can hope to take a quick run with SapnaINK, as the novel medium promises to publish their work,” explains Nijesh Shah, founder and CEO of Sapna Infoway.
SapnaINK not just helps writers realise their dream of seeing hard copies of their book, but also builds a virtual road where the writers follow the course of the book sale through Sapna’s e-books division, that promises to cut across geographies and platforms to reach global readers, says Mr. Shah. Writers are enabled with editorial needs, creative and design assistance, e-books facility, marketing and distribution, book launch platform and print-on-demand.
An editorial team filters the worthy ones for print. “Depending on the services that a writer chooses, we fix the primary fee for the publishing work to take-off,” he says.
“In 25 years of our publishing history, we have 5,500 titles from leading authors, which comes to one-and-a-half books per day with a 50 per cent rejection rate. Mainstream selection is based on having ‘books that are engaging’ or ‘books that can sell’. We are looking at nearly five books a day. The dearth of publishing is balanced by offering a service as SapnaINK, through which we get to publish more and a writer’s dream is achieved,” Mr. Shah says.
