Publishing a book is an intimidating, frustrating and confusing endeavour at the best of times. The pandemic is the worst of times. People are reading fewer books. Publishers are commissioning fewer books. Bookstores are shutting down. “I would be lying if I said it was business as usual for us,” said Manasi Subramaniam, Executive Editor and Head of Literary Rights, Penguin Random House India.“The fact of the matter is that the lockdown, which was necessary for reasons of health and safety, did disrupt our publishing operations,” Subramaniam added. “In the early phases of the lockdown, the sale of physical books, online and offline, became a challenge. This also created a kind of backlog for us, almost like a problem of plenty.”
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