Juggernaut Books
Founded | September 2015 |
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Founder | Chiki Sarkar, Durga Raghunath |
Country of origin | India |
Headquarters location | New Delhi, India |
Distribution | Online and physical |
Key people | Simran Khara, Nandan Nilekani, Aveek Sarkar, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Neeraj Aggarwal, Gavin Morris, Jaishree Ram Mohan, Nandini Mehta |
Publication types | Online publishing, short stories, autobiographies, ebooks |
Official website | www |
Juggernaut Books (informally Juggernaut) is digital book publishing house headquartered in
History
The publishing house was founded by Durga Raghunath and Chiki Sarkar in September 2015.[6]
Before co-founding Juggernaut, Sarkar was a publisher of
Juggernaut raised Rs 15 crores in its initial round of seed funding from Fab India's founder William Bissell; former CEO and co-founder of Infosys, Nandan Nilekani and MD of Boston Consulting Group, Neeraj Aggarwal.[8]
In April 2016, Juggernaut launched India's first mobile-publishing application.[1][9] Priya Ramani was appointed as the editor-at-large for its digital properties in the same year.[10] In February 2017, Raghunath resigned from the post of CEO and decided to continue as a shareholder.[11] Simran Khara is the current CEO of the publishing house.[12]
In December 2017, Bharti Airtel acquired a strategic stake in the house.[13] In March 2019, American publishing house HarperCollins joined in a partnership with Juggernaut Books, becoming their sales, distribution partner.[14]
Self-publishing platform
Juggernaut writing platform is a self-publishing platform of the publishing house that allows writers to self-publish their books by uploading the texts and book cover through their app and website. The publisher also runs a programme named "Juggernaut Selects" that identifies and develops five new writers every month and provides them all the benefits of a publishing house.[15]
Awards
In 2018, the book Jasmine Days by writer Benyamin published from Juggernaut Books won the inaugural JCB Prize and Crossword translation award.[16][17] In the same year, Swati Chaturvedi won the London Press Freedom Award for Courage for her book I am a Troll: Inside the Secret World of the BJP's Digital Army published from Juggernaut Books.[18][19]
Controversy
On 4 August 2017, Delhi High Court imposed a ban on publication and sale of book Godman to Tycoon: The Untold Story of Baba Ramdev from Juggernaut Books written by Priyanka Pathak Narain based on Ramdev's life.[20] After a legal battle with Ramdev, the ex-parte interim injunction was lifted from the book on 28 April 2018.[21]
In 2018, the book The Burning Forest: India's war in Bastar published from Juggernaut books, written by
Authors
The following authors are published by Juggernaut
- William Dalrymple
- Adrian Levy
- Poomani
- Matthew Ragget
- Gita Gopinath
- Raghuram Rajan
- Abhijit Banerjee
- Esther Duflo
- Arundhati Roy
- Aditya Tiwari
- Twinkle Khanna
- Tony Joseph
- Sourav Ganguly
- Rajdeep Sardesai
- Shyam Saran
- Nandini Sundar
- Sunny Leone
- Perumal Murugan
- Yashwant Sinha
- Rajat Gupta
- Devyani Khobragade
- Kanhaiya Kumar
- Rohith Vemula
- Meena Kandasamy
- Thant Myint-U
- Pankaj Mishra
- Deepti Kapoor
References
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- ^ "Juggernaut India's answer to Wattpad gets its first movie deal as an injunction against another Juggernaut title is restored - The New Publishing Standard". 19 May 2018. Archived from the original on 23 August 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ Kuruvilla, Elizabeth (30 December 2016). "Juggernaut turned the page". Livemint. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
- ^ "Business News, Shares Market, Stock Markets News LIVE - IPO, Mutual Funds, Income Tax and Finance News". Mint. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ "Juggernaut, the first to tap mobile phone publishing". The Hindu. 24 September 2015.
- ^ Banerjee, Ruben (5 August 2018). "Juggernaut Books announces the release of Naveen Patnaik, the first political biography of Odisha's CM". OdishaDiary. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- ^ "Here comes Juggernaut, Chiki Sarkar's new publishing venture". Printweek. 23 September 2015. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Airtel picks up stake in online writers platform Juggernaut Books". Entrackr. 4 December 2017. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "India's think-outside-the-box publisher Juggernaut partners with Youth Ki Awaaz for exclusive digital originals". The New Publishing Standard. 31 March 2018. Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Juggernaut Books appoints Priya Ramani as editor at large". MediaNama. 4 January 2016. Archived from the original on 27 February 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ "Durga Raghunath Steps Down As CEO Of Chiki Sarkar's Juggernaut Books". Huffington Post. 2 October 2017. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Airtel picks up stake in Juggernaut". The Indian Express. 4 December 2017. Archived from the original on 27 February 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ "Bharti Airtel acquires strategic stake in Juggernaut Books". The Hindu Business. 4 December 2017.
- ^ PTI. "HarperCollins to be sales, distribution partner of Juggernaut Books". @businessline. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
- ^ "Juggernaut Books announces new programme for emerging writers". Indian Advertising Media & Marketing News – exchange4media. Archived from the original on 23 February 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
- ^ "Author Benyamin's 'Jasmine Days' Wins Inaugural JCB Prize for Literature in India". Publishing Perspectives. 26 October 2018. Archived from the original on 23 February 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
- ^ "Crossword announces the 16th Crossword Book Award jury shortlist". The Hans India. 31 October 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ "Swati Chaturvedi wins Press Freedom Award for Courage". Deccan Herald. 9 November 2018. Archived from the original on 23 February 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
- ^ "Indian journalist wins Press Freedom Award for Courage in UK". Deccan Chronicle. 9 November 2018. Archived from the original on 23 February 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
- ^ "Delhi High Court stays publication and sale of book on Ramdev's life". The Economic Times. 10 May 2018. Archived from the original on 23 February 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
- ^ "In 'landmark victory for free speech', injunction on book on Ramdev's life lifted". The Financial Express. 28 April 2018. Archived from the original on 27 February 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ Scroll Staff. "Chhattisgarh: Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar cleared of murder charges by police". Scroll.in. Archived from the original on 27 February 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2019.