Sapna Book House
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| Parent company | Sapna Book House[1][2] |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | 26 January 1967 in Bangalore[3] |
| Founder | Suresh C. Shah[4] |
| Country of origin | India |
| Headquarters location | Bangalore |
| Key people | |
| Official website | www |
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Sapna Book House is an Indian book store chain and a publisher of books.[9] It is one of the biggest book shops in India.[10]
The Limca Book of Records recognised Sapna as the largest book shop in India, for seven years in a row.[6][11] The Government of Karnataka presented the Karnataka Rajyostava Award to Sapna Book House, describing it as the largest Kannada book publisher, in 2008.[6] As of May 2016, Sapna Book House has published more than 5000 books by 500 writers, including Jnanpith and Central Sahitya Academy awardees.[6]
Around sixty percent of the store includes books and the rest of stationery, multimedia products, and sports items etc.[12][13][14] It has its export of over 5,000 books in Kannada language, to the Kannadigas settled in Brazil.[15] Its online business[16] has eight million users.[15]
Store67
[edit]A store chain was started by Sapna Book House, named Store67 which included stationery products for students.[3][17]
SapnaINK
[edit]A platform SapnaINK,[18] was started by Sapna Book House in December 2014, for new authors to publish their books.[19]
Background
[edit]Sapna Book House was started by Suresh Shah, on 26 January 1967 near Majestic, Bangalore on a rent-based store, and later as an independent mall in Gandhi Nagar, Bangalore,[12] initially selling Lilliput dictionaries.[3] Born in Ghatkopar, Mumbai, Maharastra, Suresh Shah's ancestors belonged to Dhoraji, Gujarat.[4] Suresh Shah previously worked as head of Mumbai-based Pocket Book Distributing Company's new branch in Chennai[3]
Currently his eldest son Nitin Shah, is the Managing Director[12] and grandson Nijesh is the Group President of Sapna Book House and CEO of Sapna Infoway.[3][8][7] The company has 5 directors namely Paresh Suresh Shah, Deepak Suresh Shah, Nitin Suresh Shah, Bhanumati Suresh Shah and Suresh Shah.[5]
2014
[edit]Sapna Infoway acquired Ishita Technologies Private Limited (including Bookadda.com, Acadzone.com and Koolskool.com) at a value of $13 million.[1] In May, it extended its business by setting up offices in Accra, Ghana.[3][20] As on December, the group's online revenue touched the Rs 6.5-7 crore mark.[15]
References
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- ^ "SAPNA BOOK HOUSE PRIVATE LIMITED". tofler.in. Archived from the original on 7 May 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g "The incredible story of 52 year old bookstore Sapna Book House". financialexpress.com. 27 August 2017. Archived from the original on 7 May 2018.
- ^ a b "Turning dreams into reality". indiatoday.in. 16 January 2008. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
- ^ a b "SAPNA BOOK HOUSE PRIVATE LIMITED". tofler.in. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
- ^ a b c d "LOVE KANNADA INTO THE HEART OF KANNADA WRITING". epaper.timesofindia.com. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
- ^ a b "Mr. Nijesh Shah, Founder & CEO, Sapna Infoway Pvt. Ltd. Interviewed By: Sandeep Kshatriya, Facilitator, The CEO Insights". theceoinsights.com. Archived from the original on 30 October 2017.
- ^ a b "Personally Tech With SapnaOnline's Nijesh Shah". gadgets.ndtv.com. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
- ^ "Company Overview of Sapna Infoway Pvt. Ltd". bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on 7 May 2018.
- ^ "Bangalore's Sapna Book House is largest in the country". dnaindia.com. 29 January 2011. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
- ^ "Mostly about books". thehindu.com. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013.
- ^ a b c "Treating Bengaluru to books for decades". bengaluru.citizenmatters.in. 22 July 2012. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
- ^ "The successful book store you haven't heard of". livemint.com. 16 September 2015. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
- ^ "Sapna Book House opens on Residency Road". deccanherald.com. 23 May 2012. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012.
- ^ a b c "Sapna Infoway plans to raise Rs 60 crore". business-standard.com. 24 April 2015. Archived from the original on 7 May 2018.
- ^ "Official website Sapna book house". sapnaonline.com.
- ^ "The paper tiger roars". thehindubusinessline.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2018.
- ^ "Official website SapnaINK". sapnaink.com. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017.
- ^ "Writer to author in just 7 days". thehindu.com. 6 May 2015. Archived from the original on 9 June 2018.
- ^ "Sapna Book House arm acquires Ishita Tech in all-cash deal". thehindubusinessline.com. 3 December 2014. Archived from the original on 9 June 2018.