What’s causing India’s textbook crisis?
(Trigger warning for any of you production department employees out there—this story gets into some very anxiety-inducing territory.) The southern Indian state of Kerala recently saw a violent clash between… Read more »
Bertelsmann continues to take on the world. Next up: Brazil, China, and India
Bertelsmann, the German media giant that owns that little publisher Penguin Random House, has decided to grow in the education and digital media markets abroad. The company announced yesterday that it… Read more »
Amazon has a monopoly on India’s conservative president’s new book
The president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, has written a book that’s due to come out this week, about Indira Gandhi’s reign as prime minister. But, in a move that Kim… Read more »
Amazon is having problems in India because it doesn’t want to pay taxes
Earlier this summer, Amazon announced that it would be investing $2 billion to expand its operations in India—that announcement unsurprisingly came hours after FlipKart, widely considered to be the “Indian… Read more »
UNESCO study points to a “revolution in reading” in developing countries, thanks to mobile devices
For their study, “Reading in the Mobile Era,” UNESCO conducted surveys in seven developing countries and found that mobile devices can be an important factor in fostering literacy around the… Read more »