Indian readers' wish-list fulfilled; Himalayan Writing Retreat launches country’s first weekly bestseller booklist
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Nielsen data-backed list includes 60% Indian book sales across online and physical stores
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Weekly Update on Top 50 Fiction, Top 50 Non-Fiction, and Top 25 Children’s books
India is the world’s 7th largest book market but didn't have its own credible, regularly updated list of bestselling books, until now. To help Indian readers simplify their search for fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books, the Himalayan Writing Retreat (HWR) announces India’s first comprehensive weekly bestseller book list titled ‘The HWR Bestseller List.’
HWR is a residential learning center for writers founded in the Uttarakhand Himalayas in 2016 by author couple, Chetan Mahajan and Dr.Vandita Dubey. It offers writing and related workshops online as well as in the Himalayas.
HWR will release a weekly bestseller list in India with the top 50 Fiction, top 50 Non- Fiction, and Top 25 list of children’s books. The list will comprise book-sales data backed by global marketing research firm Nielsen. It includes data from physical bookstores across the country as well as from online channels like Amazon and Flipkart. It will cover approximately 60% of all print book sales in India, making it the most comprehensive, credible bestseller list in the country.
The HWR team will analyze and present monthly and quarterly trends and commentary on the data from Nielsen as well.
The list is now available at https://www.himalayanwritingretreat.com/bestselling-books-in-india/.
About HWR
The Himalayan Writing Retreat (HWR) is India’s leading residential learning centre for writers based in Uttarakhand. The mission of HWR is to help writers - aspiring and otherwise – ‘Write better, Write more’.
HWR was founded in 2016 by an author couple, Chetan Mahajan and Dr. Vandita Dubey. It is a writer's muse, designed to inspire the creative soul. The Himalayas help, of course.
The retreat offers courses online as well as in the Himalayas. The courses range from entry-level to masterclasses for experienced writers. The faculty has luminaries of the writing world such as Manjula Padmanabhan, Mariam Karim Ahlawat, Kiran Manral, Erika Krouse, Kritika Pandey, Neil D’Silva and Rochelle Potkar. HWR also offers a workshop on emotional well-being through writing led by Dr. Vandita Dubey, a published author, and clinical psychologist.