Annual Book Festival 2008- Bangalore

The 6th Annual Book Festival 2008 is being held from 14th to 23rd November, 2008 at Bangalore.

Program Schedule :
Venue Gayathri Vihar, Palace Grounds, Mekhri Circle,
Ramanamaharshi Road, Bangalore

Opening Ceremony & Reception 14th November 2008
Trade Days 14th - 23rd November 2008
Trade Hours 11:00 to 20:00 hrs

Closing Ceremony 23rd November 2008

Dates for Confirmation :
Last date for Stall Booking 25th October 2008
Last date for Special Needs Requisition 30th October 2008

Information Center Details :
Event Managers M/s Klub Class >
Address for Information & Enquiry
# 35/2, Park Road, Park Manor,
Tasker Town, Bangalore - 560 051.

Contact phone No's. & Telefax Tel : +91 80 41132530 / 31
Fax: +91 80 41132531


Events :
Various competitions and cultural activities are being planned among school and college students, thus extending the footfalls at the BBF. The various events that are proposed at the BBF are as follows :
• Painting competitions for school children between multiple age categories
• Quiz Competitions for college and school students
• Cross word/Scrabble competitions
• Cultural activities

Educational Institutions of Karnataka at a glance :
• More than 50,000 Schools
• 549 First Grade Colleges
• 307 Degree Colleges
• 247 Nursing Colleges
• 179 Polytechnic Colleges
• 117 Engineering Colleges
• 85 B.Ed. Colleges
• 81 Paramedical Institutes
• 76 Management Institutes
• 73 Law Colleges
• 47 Pharma Colleges
• 46 Physiotherapy Colleges
• 29 Medical Colleges
• 16 Universities

The World's Top 10 Book Publishers

1. Reed Elsevier (Reed Elsevier--UK/NL): 7.6 billion
2. Pearson (Pearson plc--UK): 7.3 billion
3. Thomson (Thomson Corp.--Canada) : 6.6 billion
4. Bertelsmann (Bertelsmann AG--Germany) : 5.9 billion
5. Wolters Kluwer (Wolters Kluwer--NL): 4.8 billion
6. Hachette Livre (Lagardère--France) : 2.56 billion
7. McGraw-Hill Education (The McGraw-Hill Cos.--US) : 2.52 billion
8. Reader’s Digest (Reader’s Digest--US): 2.3 billion
9. Scholastic Corp. (Scholastic--US): 2.2 billion
10. De Agostini Editore (Gruppo De Agostini--Italy): unavailable

Asia-Pacific IT Education Spending

Supplier of AIRBUS

LABINAL
CDI Aerospace
GED
GED
ASSYSTEM (Inbis)
AEROCONSEIL
ALTRAN Aerospace & Defence
GCT PROJECTS Gmbh
SEDITEC / AEROCONSEIL
SOGETI HIGH TECH
ALTEN
GECI INTERNATIONAL
LABINAL
CDI Aerospace
GED
GED
ASSYSTEM (Inbis)
AEROCONSEIL
ALTRAN Aerospace & Defence
GCT PROJECTS Gmbh
SEDITEC / AEROCONSEIL
SOGETI HIGH TECH
ALTEN
GECI INTERNATIONAL
TECCON
CeBeNetwork
FERCHAU ENGINEERING
ELAN GmbH
RÜCKER Aerospace
ATOS ORIGIN
GRUPO CT
ITD
GRUPO TAM
SENER
CT INGENIEROS
GKN AEROSPACE
MORSON PROJECTS
HYDE
ATKINS
FRAZER NASH
STIRLING DYNAMICS
GKN AEROSPACE

Edurite's Expansion Plan

On Sept 27th, one interesting news appeared on ET (Page 6), it was on the expansion plan for Edurite Technologies a Bangalore-based educational content company started by Prof Jawahar, director - PES Institutions and G S Ravi.
Edurite's 2007 revenue was $2mn. They are planning to raise Rs50Cr thru PE funding for the purpose of expansion (Refer details on expansion mentioned in the newspaper, since it is not a listed company hence no point of mentioning in detail here) . It is targetting a topline of $100mn by 2010-11!!!
Yes, from a revenue of Rs8Cr to Rs400Cr (assuming $1=Rs40) in just 4 years time.....a 50times increase in revenue in just 4 years, shocking indeed!!!
But they can achieve this target just because they are in the right business at the right time and that the business is EDUCATION SECTOR. One more reason because Edurite is acquired by Tutorvista who owned by entrepreneur K Ganesh who is well respected personality.

Flash back: Nov'07 : SERIAL entrepreneur K Ganesh-led online tutoring services company TutorVista.com has acquired educational content firm Edurite for an undisclosed sum. The company has set up a subsidiary - TutorVista Education India - which will include Edurite and cater to the domestic market

Edurite on Airtel Digital TV

Internet companies feature prominently on Airtel Digital TV (DTH), and services appears to be a significant differentiator for Airtel. Some of the content and media services on offer:
- iAstro: powered by StarsTell, a services from WorldPhone, a VoIP player which is a part of Times Private Treaties (screencap)- iCity: has two components. The Maps are powered by MapUnity, and the estimations of traffic are a function of the number of mobile phones on a particular road. The other component is local business information (restaurants) and events, being powered by AskLaila. . Screencaps: Mapunity 1, Mapunity 2 , Asklaila- iLearn: is being powered by Edurite, and developed by Infosys (screencap)- iMatinee: powered by BookMyShow, a Web18 site- iNet: isn’t really Internet access on the mobile, but actually widgets which you can place on your TV screen. Widgets cover sports, news, stocks, a world time clock. The data is refreshed real time. (screencap)- iShop: powered by Indiatimes- iTravel: travel packages are powered by MakeMyTrip. You can’t book a ticket, but you can SMS a package to a number, and MMT will call back to close the deal. (screencap)- Games: provided by NDS. The content will be refreshed on a regular basis.- Worldspace: 10 Wordspace radio channels are available for free. (screencap)
The deals are essentially on revenue share. As far as the customer is concerned, depending on the package he opts for, he’ll get access to an application.
What’s interesting is that there’s a section called “Airtel Live”, like in case of the mobile WAP deck. Some of the services on offer on Airtel Live are free, while others are paid. As far as services are concerned, Airtel appears to be taking the mobile approach to DTH, where they will provide TV channels, and then bundle in other services that users can subscribe pay for.

Source: Medianama