What publishers in India are predicting about a post-pandemic industry

One way or another, the restrictions caused by this pandemic will come to an end. Once that happens, we’ll all be left to adapt and survive in an industry that has taken a considerable hit over the past couple of months.

Publishers in India are making a few predictions about what the publishing industry will look like post-pandemic. Here are some of the highlights:

Possible creation of a new genre that would include “lockdown romance” or “lockdown drama,” along with subgenres of speculative and dystopian fiction.CEO of Niyogi Books, Trisha Niyogi, expects the industry to “bounce back to normal” and says “the business of books is not going to be dented seriously.”Himanjali Sankar, Editorial Director at Simon and Schuster, believes that “people will turn to literature to make sense of the world more than they did before.” She suggests a more “self-reflective” society would be the cause of the attraction to literature.

Read more about what publishers in India are saying here.

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