Author: Ravi Subramanian
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Five Stories that influenced my life (from my personal diary)
Here are five stories that influenced me and changed my life. (This is a reproduction of an article that appeared in the Corporate Dossier supplement of Economic Times today) FIGHT YOUR OWN BATTLES. DON’T DEPEND ON OTHERS TO DO IT FOR YOU Many years back, a co-worker, known for his political manipulations, sent an offensive…
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Amazon I am sorry. You lost me on this one.
Amazon Vs Hachette : Amazon writes to authors Got this email today from Amazon. My stance on this…. Books need to be priced higher… ebooks and paperbacks both need to be priced higher. Its got nothing to do with the cost of production or storage or returns or inventory…. If one were to go…
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GOD IS A GAMER – worlds first BITCOIN thriller
My next book GOD IS A GAMER releases on 5th of September. GOD IS A GAMER, is the worlds first Bitcoin Thriller. A hundred chapters to read in a little over 320 pages, it does promise to be a page turner. As readers you have always supported me. This time too, I look forward to your…
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Oh! What a Crush! – the story of my brief but intense love affair
Playing Candy Crush on the iPad was like experiencing ‘Vegas on Steroids’. I started playing Candy Crush some time in August last year. It was quite annoying to see posts about Candy Crush spamming my newsfeed. Just out of curiosity one day (August 10), I downloaded the free app on my iPad and started playing.…
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Book Marketing : The Myths (TED Talk)
In February this year, I had the opportunity to visit SITM, Pune to give a TED talk on Book Marketing:The Myths. The talk was largely about how every book needs to be marketed these days : largely on account of increased clutter and reduced discoverability. It also focussed on how treating a book as a…
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Changes at Penguin
Received this note from the CEO of Penguin, announcing the changes post the merger of Penguin and Random House. Am putting this up here because the changes are in public domain, in any case : When I wrote to you in July last year, on the day Penguin Random House was formed, I proudly promised…
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Stop the Hypocrisy. Penguin did the right thing
Too much is being made of the pulping of Wendy Doniger’s “The Hindus – An Alternative History.” I guess it all started with Arundhati Roy’s open letter to Penguin in the Times of India. Titled, “You must tell us what terrified you”, it launched a scathing attack into Penguins act of reaching an out of…
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I was like Kejriwal. Glad I changed
Many many years back, when I took up my first role as a Business Manager in a Bank, I was a bit like Arvind Kejriwal. Brash. Loud. Visibly aggressive. I always felt that the only way in which one could do well in life is by aggressively driving home a single point agenda.This approach was…
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Take time out for old friends….
When I got a call a few days back from a Sangeeta Modi, a good friend, asking me if I would be free for dinner on Sunday, my heart sank. Sunday, is one of those days that I ferociously protect for myself and my family. I try and avoid socialising on Sundays. Between my day…
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