In the 608: Madison Reading Project Community Book Drive

Arts & Culture, Books

MADISON, Wis. – For the fifth year in a row, Madison Reading Project has launched its annual Community Book Drive, promising to fill area children’s homes with new books this holiday season. The goal is to raise $110,000 and provide 20,000 new books before winter break to more than 12,000 children. In addition to kicking off their fundraiser, the nonprofit is celebrating its 10th anniversary. This is the culmination of ten years of working and collaborating with hundreds of partners to bring literacy resources, engagement, and free books to children. “We believe it is important for children to have access to new books that reflect their unique identities as well as open their eyes to others’ lived experiences,” says Rowan Childs, co-executive director. “By supporting our Community Book Drive, you will help get thousands of new, high-quality books to kids, many of whom have few books in their homes. Children deserve that new book feeling, and books in the home are very important.”Madison Reading Project is again partnering with schools across the county, Santas Without Chimneys, Boys & Girls Club, Reach Dane, and other community program partners to widen its reach. Madison Reading Project staff and volunteers will place book collection bins and wish trees at public locations such as shopping malls and partner businesses. For public donation locations, link to make a cash contribution, and complete information, click here.The drive ends Dec. 6 to ensure books get to kids on time. The fundraiser is open until the end of the year. ​COPYRIGHT 2024 BY CHANNEL 3000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.

Blending Science and Nature: Dr. Neeta Kapadia on Co-Founding Luxury Skincare Brand Rare Chemistry

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Rare Chemistry Dr. Neeta Kapadia Dr. Neeta Kapadia is truly a woman of many talents! Alongside her successful medical practice, she’s also an entrepreneur. She and her daughter, Rhea Kapadia, co-founded Rare Chemistry—a luxury skincare brand designed for women of all ages and skin types. Rare Chemistry combines advanced dermatological ingredients with rare botanical extracts…

A Game of Thrones movie may be coming – but do we really need it?

Arts & Culture, Film & TV

If we’ve learned anything from the tortuous final episodes of Game of Thrones, it’s that nothing quite unites humanity like collective disappointment. Which begs the question, given the news that Warner Bros is reportedly in the early stages of bringing George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones to the big screen, exactly how much worse could it get than Bran ending up the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and Daenerys deciding, after years of liberating cities and freeing people, that her true passion was crowd control via dragon fire?Perhaps this new film, of which we know little thus far, will make us forget all the horrors of that final season. Perhaps it will usher Game of Thrones back into the light from the shadows of Jon Snow being packed off tediously to the frozen north and Jaime and Cersei dying boringly under a load of rocks. Maybe there will be dragon fire, steely eyed armies of the undead and maniacal ambition to make Littlefinger’s attempts at machiavellian ladder-climbing look like a Riverrun poetry club debating the merits of sad fish ballads. Or perhaps it will be about Tyrion’s desperate, increasingly drunken quest to uncover the last hidden bottle of Arbor Gold in Westeros.We just don’t know, and the only way to work it out is by a process of elimination. It can’t really be a movie-length remake of season eight, much as we would love it to be, because all the cast will now be at least a decade older. The only thing worse than having to sit through all that again would be to have to sit through all that again in the full knowledge that this is what they should have done the first time around, except with even more CGI. It can’t be a film adaptation of Martin’s final two chapters of A Song of Ice and Fire because the beloved fantasy writer still hasn’t got around to finishing them yet. And besides, we were always promised that GOT showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss only royally messed up the ending of the show because they had been told by Martin exactly how he would have royally messed up the ending of the books had he actually got round to writing them in time.It also can’t be a prequel, because we already have about 6,000 of those hitting TV screens in the next few years, from the current series House of the Dragon (family feud with dragons, petty grudges, and enough brooding stares to dim the sun) to the forthcoming A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (medieval road trips with a broken knight and his pint-sized, secretly royal squire) and the still-mooted offshoots Nine Voyages (Master and Commander but with more dragons, fewer sailing qualifications, and one very determined beardy sailor bloke’s quest to see every corner of Essos), Aegon’s Conquest (Westeros: The Early Years, where the title character and his sister-wives unleash dragon fire on anyone who doesn’t immediately bow) and Ten Thousand Ships (Princess Nymeria’s endless escape across Essos to Dorne, because nothing says “dream destination” like a scorching desert.) There simply isn’t anything left to mine in the GOT pre-history, which leaves either a sequel or a full remake.View image in fullscreenGiven the current outrage in Potterdom over the new TV series, just a few years after the movies ended, it would be interesting indeed to see quite how Martin’s fanbase might receive any attempt to completely revisit A Song of Ice and Fire, but this time on the big screen. Would we really have sat through Daenerys’s endless traipsing around Essos if we had known how it was all going to end? Can anyone handle six three-hour films about Bran’s glacially paced descent into weirdo druid-dom? These character arcs were fascinating on TV because it didn’t matter so much that very little was actually happening when the production values were so glorious and there was a distinct possibility that Arya might just kill everyone on her list. The best bits of GOT were not always the most obviously cinematic segues – for every extended battle with the Night King there were at least three or four more brilliantly intimate moments such as Jaime and Brienne’s bath scene or Arya and Tywin Lannister’s bizarrely delicate conversations at Harrenhal.There is a serious argument that TV’s more languid, open-ended format helped Weiss and Benioff get something out of Martin’s books that would most likely be completely lost in the shift to three-act, big-screen fantasy spectacle and the kind of cinema that might be more concerned with cavalry battles and the many occasions in which stuff got blown up with wildfire than the bit where we discover how Hodor got his name. The TV shows veered off course regularly compared with the books, so much so that there were times that GOT felt like more of a big-budget, splendidly colourful tribute to A Song of Ice and Fire, rather than a direct adaptation.And yet let’s think for a moment how much further from the source we might find ourselves within the more rigid confines of the movie format – this could be like that bit in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King where Legolas the elf reverse-abseils up a Mûmakil, except with Tyrion sliding down the neck of a dragon, goblet in hand, shouting “I drink and I know things” while a choir belts out the Game of Thrones theme in Latin. Jon Snow might find himself transformed from brooding warrior to Westeros’s premiere action hero, speeding across icy tundras on horseback with Ghost in a saddlebag, pulling mid-air spins while dodging White Walker lasers.And then of course there’s the prospect of a sequel. Do we really want to see what Bran got up to next, or how the Others were ultimately integrated into polite society, despite struggling with basic conversational skills at dinner parties, and eventually did a great job protecting Westeros from invasion by a rogue faction of militants unsullied? After eight whole seasons were reduced to Bran winning the throne by default while Jon was exiled for caring too much, I’m not quite sure I’ve got the energy.

A Game of Thrones movie may be coming – but do we really need it?

Arts & Culture, Film & TV

If we’ve learned anything from the tortuous final episodes of Game of Thrones, it’s that nothing quite unites humanity like collective disappointment. Which begs the question, given the news that Warner Bros is reportedly in the early stages of bringing George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones to the big screen, exactly how much worse could it get than Bran ending up the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and Daenerys deciding, after years of liberating cities and freeing people, that her true passion was crowd control via dragon fire?Perhaps this new film, of which we know little thus far, will make us forget all the horrors of that final season. Perhaps it will usher Game of Thrones back into the light from the shadows of Jon Snow being packed off tediously to the frozen north and Jaime and Cersei dying boringly under a load of rocks. Maybe there will be dragon fire, steely eyed armies of the undead and maniacal ambition to make Littlefinger’s attempts at machiavellian ladder-climbing look like a Riverrun poetry club debating the merits of sad fish ballads. Or perhaps it will be about Tyrion’s desperate, increasingly drunken quest to uncover the last hidden bottle of Arbor Gold in Westeros.We just don’t know, and the only way to work it out is by a process of elimination. It can’t really be a movie-length remake of season eight, much as we would love it to be, because all the cast will now be at least a decade older. The only thing worse than having to sit through all that again would be to have to sit through all that again in the full knowledge that this is what they should have done the first time around, except with even more CGI. It can’t be a film adaptation of Martin’s final two chapters of A Song of Ice and Fire because the beloved fantasy writer still hasn’t got around to finishing them yet. And besides, we were always promised that GOT showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss only royally messed up the ending of the show because they had been told by Martin exactly how he would have royally messed up the ending of the books had he actually got round to writing them in time.It also can’t be a prequel, because we already have about 6,000 of those hitting TV screens in the next few years, from the current series House of the Dragon (family feud with dragons, petty grudges, and enough brooding stares to dim the sun) to the forthcoming A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (medieval road trips with a broken knight and his pint-sized, secretly royal squire) and the still-mooted offshoots Nine Voyages (Master and Commander but with more dragons, fewer sailing qualifications, and one very determined beardy sailor bloke’s quest to see every corner of Essos), Aegon’s Conquest (Westeros: The Early Years, where the title character and his sister-wives unleash dragon fire on anyone who doesn’t immediately bow) and Ten Thousand Ships (Princess Nymeria’s endless escape across Essos to Dorne, because nothing says “dream destination” like a scorching desert.) There simply isn’t anything left to mine in the GOT pre-history, which leaves either a sequel or a full remake.View image in fullscreenGiven the current outrage in Potterdom over the new TV series, just a few years after the movies ended, it would be interesting indeed to see quite how Martin’s fanbase might receive any attempt to completely revisit A Song of Ice and Fire, but this time on the big screen. Would we really have sat through Daenerys’s endless traipsing around Essos if we had known how it was all going to end? Can anyone handle six three-hour films about Bran’s glacially paced descent into weirdo druid-dom? These character arcs were fascinating on TV because it didn’t matter so much that very little was actually happening when the production values were so glorious and there was a distinct possibility that Arya might just kill everyone on her list. The best bits of GOT were not always the most obviously cinematic segues – for every extended battle with the Night King there were at least three or four more brilliantly intimate moments such as Jaime and Brienne’s bath scene or Arya and Tywin Lannister’s bizarrely delicate conversations at Harrenhal.There is a serious argument that TV’s more languid, open-ended format helped Weiss and Benioff get something out of Martin’s books that would most likely be completely lost in the shift to three-act, big-screen fantasy spectacle and the kind of cinema that might be more concerned with cavalry battles and the many occasions in which stuff got blown up with wildfire than the bit where we discover how Hodor got his name. The TV shows veered off course regularly compared with the books, so much so that there were times that GOT felt like more of a big-budget, splendidly colourful tribute to A Song of Ice and Fire, rather than a direct adaptation.And yet let’s think for a moment how much further from the source we might find ourselves within the more rigid confines of the movie format – this could be like that bit in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King where Legolas the elf reverse-abseils up a Mûmakil, except with Tyrion sliding down the neck of a dragon, goblet in hand, shouting “I drink and I know things” while a choir belts out the Game of Thrones theme in Latin. Jon Snow might find himself transformed from brooding warrior to Westeros’s premiere action hero, speeding across icy tundras on horseback with Ghost in a saddlebag, pulling mid-air spins while dodging White Walker lasers.And then of course there’s the prospect of a sequel. Do we really want to see what Bran got up to next, or how the Others were ultimately integrated into polite society, despite struggling with basic conversational skills at dinner parties, and eventually did a great job protecting Westeros from invasion by a rogue faction of militants unsullied? After eight whole seasons were reduced to Bran winning the throne by default while Jon was exiled for caring too much, I’m not quite sure I’ve got the energy.

The Role of AI for Small Business in Digital Marketing

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By 2025, 81% of retail and consumer-oriented businesses are expected to shift their businesses to AI automation. And, currently, around 35% of businesses globally employ AI for their routine operations.

Today, intelligent tools have completely revolutionized how small businesses approach marketing. With a dedicated tool for research, content generative, strategy planning, and even customer support, marketers are more focused on the creative aspects of their brand growth.
And, I am here to break down the role of AI for a small business in digital marketing and how you can benefit from it. So, dive right in.

5 Ways to Use AI in Digital Marketing for Small Businesses

Want to streamline workflow, plan strategically, and generate leads, check out these five ways to use AI tools in digital marketing as a small business.

1.   Data Analysis and Insights

Making sense of big datasets to analyze consumers’ behavior and market trends has always been a challenge, especially, if you have limited resources. But, AI is here to help!
Modern businesses employ advanced analytics to understand the audience and interact with them. AI analytics sift through vast data from different marketing platforms and provide meaningful insights, including shopping patterns, engagement, and more. This way, businesses are better equipped to make informed decisions and develop marketing strategies.

Pro Tip: Sintra data analyst uses advanced algorithms to forecast sales, calculate ROI return on investment, and draft financial reports. It converts complex data into actionable insights for desired marketing outcomes.

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2.   Automation and Productivity

Fewer resources and limited workers make time management impossible for startups. But, AI’s advent in digital marketing has revolutionized how businesses, big or small, carry out their routine operations. Today, 63% of marketers use AI tools for note-taking and report summarization.
These tools employ advanced algorithms to automate repetitive processes like email campaigns, social media content scheduling, ad placement, and even customer queries. With automation, you can save time to focus on more significant tasks and strategy initiatives.

3.   SEO Research

SEO research is one of the crucial aspects of your website’s visibility, yet, the most time-consuming and complex. But, here too, AI has got you covered. Today marketers use AI tools to research keyword ideas and map out trending topics for targeting the right audience.
While it is a valuable alternative for growth and reach, you must understand that it offers suggestions and not the most accurate data. Hence, combining them with an intelligent research assistant and your knowledge of the industry for cross-referencing might help boost your search ranking.

Pro Tip: Sintra AI SEO specialist Seomi helps you discover high-impact, industry-relevant keywords and drive traffic. It also offers automated SEO reports for refined strategies.
4.   Content Production

You must have heard marketers saying, content is the key, and rightfully so. Interactive and informative marketing content is your way to attract a wider audience and drive traffic. Today, generative AI tools can produce content for small businesses, be it social media posts, email copy, blog posts, and even video, image, or audio ads.
It doesn’t stop here! You can even employ intelligent tools to analyze market trends and suggest relevant themes for your ad campaigns. It keeps your content fresh and engaging.
However, while doing so, it is equally important to consider that AI-generated content is not ready to publish. It is a great starting point, yet requires human creativity. Prioritize fact-checking, editing, and adjusting the produced written or animated content for your audience. Your perspective and input can make it dynamic, human, and compelling.

Pro Tip: Sintra Commet, an AI-powered content assist, can help you automate content generation and focus on growth. It produces product descriptions and provides data-driven sales feedback and strategy suggestions.
5.   Improved Customer Experience

Digital marketing is all about making your customers feel valued and satisfied. Hence, employing AI tools that can convert your visitors to leads sounds like a great deal, right?
Smart chatbots like Sintra AI employees best handle your routine customer inquiries, deal with product or service issues, and provide 24/7 support. Think of them like your employees, who are friendly and cooperative to your customers and answer simple questions like;

How to track my order?
What are your store’s opening hours?
How to reset my password?
AI in Digital Marketing: Pros and Cons

While having numerous benefits for businesses, AI is still emerging and has a few drawbacks. Let’s check them out, so you are better equipped at making a choice.

AI Digital Marketing Pros
AI tools with data analysis and constant performance tracking help you boost productivity and ROI for your campaigns.
Routine operations and faster and accurate with AI software. It frees up time from your busy schedule to invest in more important matters.
Integrating smart tools helps strengthen your relationship with the customers. Having 24/7 availability and personalized recommendations leads to loyal buyers.
Scaling your businesses is easier with AI data analytics. These tools predict, analyze, and produce promotional assets that help you in the long run, so you stay ahead of your marketing game.
AI Digital Marketing Cons
While businesses can craft content with AI, it’s not entirely accurate. Without a human editor, the AI-generated content is more likely to have factual inaccuracies, biases, and a completely irrelevant tone.
Today, consumers are concerned about their privacy. And, some AI techniques that use customer’s internet behavior and cookies may harm relationships with the customer. Hence, it is important to use AI in compliance with the GDPR privacy laws.
Quick-Start Your Marketing Journey Now!

If you haven’t already, start employing AI in your digital marketing strategies and notice a significant boost in productivity and conversions. However, most startup businesses feel overwhelmed by the thought of integrating AI into their routine processes.
If you are one of them, the best way is to take one step at a time. For instance, start by employing SEO tools first, and gradually upgrade to strategy planning. Define your goals, do research, and employ the best-suited option.

Val McDermid and Nicola Sturgeon announce Christmas event for book lovers

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Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowBest selling author Val McDermid is teaming up with former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for a festive book event.The book lovers will be in conversation in a Christmas edition of In The Company of Books at the Assembly Hall, New College in Edinburgh on Sunday, December 15, and book lovers can join them for chat about the joys of reading, and a glass of mulled wine.This special edition of In The Company of Books reunites friends and book lovers Val and Nicola to discuss all things literary, following a number of sold-out, acclaimed in-conversation events across the UK in recent years. They will be joined by special guests yet to be announced.Crime writer Val McDermid will be in conversation with Nicola Sturgeon (Pic: Lisa Ferguson)Kirkcaldy-born Val has sold over 19 million books to date across the globe and has been translated into more than 40 languages. She is best known for her Wire in the Blood series featuring clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan,The co-hosts said: “Books are magic. Portable magic, according to Stephen King. And like magic, books build bridges. In our case, an improbable friendship between a passionate politician and Scotland’s queen of crime. Our love of books is what first drew us together and it remains the mainstay of that friendship. Every conversation we have eventually meanders round to the books we are reading, what we’ve been enjoying, what has been making us laugh or cry, or keeping us on the edge of our seats – and now we want to share the love. We’ll be interrogating our guests about the books that shaped them and why they love reading.”In The Company of Books joins a newly announced line-up of performances taking place at the Hall as part of Edinburgh’s Christmas. These include the enchanting and inspiring children’s show The Bubble Show; stand-up comedy from Jason Byrne, and the award-winning, critically acclaimed burlesque and drag parody show Swamplesque.Continue Reading

Army veteran pens book about growing up in Iredell County, close calls in life

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Army veteran Del Hardiman said he had at least 16 close calls where his life was at stake. In his memoir “Dangerous Enclosures” he recalls those stories and how writing the book made him realize that he always seemed to have fate on his side.

Del Hardiman poses as the Space Shuttle Discovery is mounted on a Boeing 747 at Kennedy Space Center on May 20, 1991.

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“My overall journey or transformation was never in mind as events happened. I accepted life’s experiences as they happened. It was only in looking over notes and my memoirs later in life that I realized, ‘Hey I’m lucky to be alive,” Hardiman said. “I am a survivor, having taken opportunities when they availed themselves, somehow selecting the correct way at those forks in the road of life.”Hardiman, who now lives in Fairfax Station, Virginia, said whether it was the bike given to him by his teacher, hitchhiking rides to the airport, or the opportunities within the U.S. Army and flying for NASA, things always seemed to work out for him.

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“I was a poor kid who went to the N.B. Mills Elementary School, and we didn’t have much. But as I say in the book, it seems like fate kept looking out for me,” Hardiman said. “Little things. I got selected as captain of the Civil Air Patrol. Why? Why was that?” Fate certainly smiled on npw 79 year old during the more than a dozen close calls he said he had both as a civilian and military pilot, including one at the age of 19. Hardiman recalls his time growing up in Statesville as well as pivotal moments of his military and civilian careers in “Dangerous Enclosures” and how those affected his more than 60 years in aviation.”At the time these events happened, I never questioned them, as is unusual, I believe, for a young man. If I had questioned the reason I escaped a serious circumstance, it would have affected my mindset and set me up for no longer being aggressive in performing tasks at hand,” Hardiman said. “In hindsight, these many years afterward I realized how fortunate I was to have so many close calls and survived. I use the word ‘fate’ as an afterthought. I certainly don’t believe ‘luck’ had anything to do with it, nor did I particularly think a divine hand was watching over me at the time. Again, in hindsight, that may have been the case.”Close calls weren’t just in the cockpit of the planes he flew, either. Luck followed him whether he was in the sky or on the ground. Whether it was secretive missions over Soviet airspace during the Cold War or flying for NASA, Hardiman’s life was filled with experiences that went far beyond the ordinary, according to a press release.”One which comes to mind is when a Vietcong infiltrator team entered our Special Forces compound at night setting off explosives, one of which I later found was a mere six feet from where I slept but through the grace of God or fate as I called it, did not go off,” Hardiman said.”Dangerous Enclosures” from Parker Publishers was released in September.Growing up in StatesvilleThe following is a shared excerpt from Hardiman’s book, “Dangerous Enclosures.”Eighth grade saw me with a large paper route with the Statesville Record and Landmark. I traded in my used Schwinn bicycle for a new red Jaguar Mark II which I purchased for $100 on a payment plan from Riddle’s Bicycle and Hobby Shop. I customized my new bike by changing out the standard handlebars for long ‘steer horn’ bars; along with that I put an oversized metal meshed basket in front over the wheel. Additionally, I had two canvas bags, one on each side of the rear wheel. This arrangement was typical for most paperboys.Being a paperboy was opportune as I developed skills in management and teamwork. After school, I reported to the downtown newspaper rear loading and dispatch facility where papers by the hundreds were coming off the noisy press, busily collected and identified in batches by young Bobby Wilhelm, a newspaper employee.The smell of freshly inked paper was in the air. Like clockwork, identified stacks of newspapers were placed on long tables to be rolled. Rural adult deliverymen were the first to get the papers while paperboys assisted them rolling their papers. It was a beehive of activity, well-orchestrated with the sound of the press in the background, we developed quite a skill in taking a stack of papers, tightly rolling them wrapped with a rubber band; like a machine, we knocked out the batches in no time. Then came our turn. Each of us purchased our own box of green rubber bands which would last for a week or two.

Del Hardiman, 15, working at the Statesville Municipal Airport as a line boy.

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We had fun as well.Earl Kuykendall, one of the older boys, would come whisper the name of someone in each boy’s ear as we were rolling our papers. Earl would loudly do a countdown at which time you would turn and shoot a rubber band at the person he had told you to. What a surprise when 15 boys turned and shot you while you aimed and shot at the one Earl had told you to! Only Earl knew who was on the hit list. We were all friends from different backgrounds and schools working as a team. The sooner you rolled your papers and loaded your now heavy bike, the sooner you would be on your way.At the end of the day, my patrons dutifully waited for their daily newspaper which, in those days, brought news of community and world events into kitchens or living rooms. In some instances, they were disappointed by my late arrivals. After leaving the Record and Landmark newspaper building, bicycle loaded with 150 tightly rolled papers, I sometimes stopped by the downtown Hefner’s Café on East Broad Street or maybe stop to play softball with kids while my deliveries waited. When asked why their paper was late, I usually told them we had problems with the press, a little white lie.

Del Hardiman in the fifth grade at N.B. Mills Elementary school.

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One thing I took pride in was being able to pedal down the center of the street, no hands on the handlebars, accurately slinging papers left and right to land, if not on the porch, certainly close by.

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Mangaluru: Yenepoya (Deemed to be University) organises five-day book exhibition

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Media ReleaseMangaluru, Nov 8: The Central Library of Yenepoya University (YDU) is organising a five-day book exhibition from the November 7th to the 12th as an early celebration of National Library Week.
The exhibition is being conducted on November 7 and 8 at the Central Library, Deralakatte, November 9 at Yenepoya School of Allied Health Science, Mudipu Campus, Mudipu, and November 11 and 12 at Yenepoya Institute of Arts, Science, Commerce, and Management (YIASCM) at Kulur and Belmatta campus, Mangaluru.

This exhibition aims to provide an open platform for all the faculties, research scholars, PG/UG students and open for the public to explore, review, recommend, and purchase books displayed by leading publishers and vendors.
The exhibition displays different streams of books such as medical, dental, nursing, physiotherapy, pharmacy, Allied health science, computer science, IT, business, management, commerce, finance, science, chemistry, microbiology, nutrition, forensics, arts, humanities, computer science, general and motivational books from renowned publishers/suppliers such as CBS Publisher, Jaypee Brothers, Vikas Publishers, Ahuja Books Bengaluru, Standard Book Co, Education Supplier, Brilliance, SRI Book World, Vithyathi, and others.

Bindwel and PrintWeek to host book roundtable in Delhi

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Bindwel Technologies, South Asia’s foremost bookbinding machine manufacturer, in collaboration with PrintWeek will be hosting an exclusive roundtable on Friday, 29 November 2024 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. This invitation-only event will gather key figures from the trade and educational publishing, as well as key players in commercial printing, to discuss how India can advance as a global leader in high-quality, niche book production. The event’s theme is “The Print Renaissance: Innovation, Craft, and Science in Modern Bookmaking”.
The 29 November event will be facilitated by Subhasis Ganguly, a renowned publishing-print consultant, who is mentoring the event.

Ramu Ramanathan, the editor of PrintWeek will moderate the discussions, guiding a series of panels designed to inspire collaboration and explore new growth areas within the industry. The roundtable also coincides with the arrival of Kai Buentemeyer, the director of Bindwel Technologies from Germany, whose visit marks a milestone in Bindwel’s ongoing support for the Indian book industry.

The agenda is built around three themes which include: innovation in presentation; scientific book method: here and now; craft in book production.

P Sajith of Bindwel said, “Innovation in book presentation will discuss the latest advancements in book design, focusing on features such as pop-ups, intricate layouts, and specialty bindings.” As digital content competes for attention, printed books can offer an immersive and tactile experience that digital cannot replicate. Experts will delve into how these design innovations make reading more engaging and appealing to readers.

The scientific book method in the here and how will document the celebration of excellence in book publishing, this segment will recognise creative and technical achievements that have set new standards in the industry. Sajith added, “By showcasing exceptional projects, the panel will highlight the importance of integrating artistry and precision in modern bookmaking, underscoring print’s unique capacity to inspire.”

The discussion centred around craft in book production will address the technical challenges and advancements in book printing and binding that maintain high standards of craftsmanship. With participation from award-winning firms, the discussants will discuss the investments and skills needed to position India as a preferred destination for high-value book production. This session will explore how India can leverage niche capabilities to shift global demand from China to India, particularly for books that embody a high level of craftsmanship.

With participation from leading multinational and domestic publishers and celebrated printers, the event on 29 November promises to foster an exchange of ideas on the potential of Indian book production. By focusing on the unique role of book printing in a digital world, Bindwel Technologies and PrintWeek aim to usher in a new era of innovation, quality, and appreciation for the craft of bookmaking.