India is home to one of largest book industries in the world with over 80,000 books published every year in several Languages. With your reader base spread across various geographies, you need an efficient way of taking your book to every potential reader. Every book deserves a good showcase.

bdata is a cloud based book metadata management and a promotional platform designed specifically for Indian publishing industry. It helps you manage information about your titles, authors and events in bdata and showcase them with ease. Through Integration with bookscape, the Book Discovery Service gives you immediate access to a wide audience. Whether you are an author/independant publisher or a large publisher, bdata gives you the power to use rich information to expand your reach.

BookScape.in is a free book discovery platform aimed at bringing together the readers of Indian language books and all books published in India. On BookScape, readers can discover books, rate, review, connect with other readers and share information about books.

BookScape serves as a channel for publishers/authors to engage with the readers effectively. BookScape also brings news/articles about books, reading cultures etc. syndicated from various niche magazines/journals/blogs with interest in promoting reading. Designed specifically for Indian industry and has support for all major Indian languages. The language support includes the ability to search the data in any of the Indian languages and comment/review in any language.

e-Book Creation/Conversion Services:

BookConnect is a provider of e-book services to publishers in India and has partnered with leading e-Book platforms like Google, Apple, Amazon & Kobo. Having rich experience in developing technology applications related to book Industry and working with Indian language content, we bring you the right tools and expertise in providing e-book services.

Digitizing Indian language content brings in unique set of challenges ranging from encoding, fonts, formatting and rendering. Our approach is to have a mix of technology and domain expertise to address these challenges ensuring a quick turn around time coupled with quality of output.

Having partnered with major e-Book platforms, we address the requirements of all platforms, reading devices and produce standards-compliant e-Pub version of your books providing a seamless experience across all the platforms.

e-Book Aggregation Services:

Coupled with our Aggregation service of e-Books, we can distribute your books in all the platforms mentioned above. It frees up publishers from the hassle of dealing with various technology, metadata requirements of each of these platforms. Your titles will get the benefit of getting to new channels as we partner with other emerging e-book vendors.

While some of the ebook platforms such a s Google and Kobo already support Indian languages, others are in the process of doing that and we are sure very soon most major ebook platforms will have support for Indian languages including Hindi/Tamil/Telugu/Malayalam.

BookConnect’s technology services division provides the following services to Book Publishers and Sellers across the globe:

Custom Development

• Onix based Custom Application development
• Build Website / Webstore & Social Media Management for Publishers / Authors
• Automated Generation of Trade Catalogues, Order Sheets & Right Catalogues
• Converting Legacy Systems to Onix Based Meta Data Management

Integration

• Integration of Internal Systems of Publishers
• Integration with B2B, e-Commerce Portals
• Integration of BData (BookConnect’s Cloud based meta data and promotion platforms) with internal system of Publishers
• Automation of communication of Book Metadata to sellers

Training Services

• Onix Training