Sapna Book House

Sapna Book House is an Indian book store chain and a publisher of books.[9] It is one of the biggest book shops in India.[10]

Sapna Book House Pvt. Ltd.
Parent companySapna Book House[1][2]
StatusActive
Founded26 January 1967 (1967-01-26) in Bangalore[3]
FounderSuresh C. Shah[4]
Country of originIndia
Headquarters locationBangalore
Key people
  • Suresh Shah, Paresh Suresh Shah, Deepak Suresh Shah and Bhanumati Suresh Shah (Directors)[5]
  • Nitin Shah (Director, Managing director)[6]
  • Nijesh (Group President of Sapna Book House and CEO of Sapna Infoway)[3][7][8]
Official websitewww.sapnaonline.com
View of the store

The Limca Book of Records recognised Sapna as the largest book shop in India, for seven years in a row.[6][11] The Government of Karnataka presented the Karnataka Rajyostava Award to Sapna Book House, describing it as the largest Kannada book publisher, in 2008.[6] As of May 2016, Sapna Book House has published more than 5000 books by 500 writers, including Jnanpith and Central Sahitya Academy awardees.[6]

Around sixty percent of the store includes books and the rest of stationery, multimedia products, and sports items etc.[12][13][14] It has its export of over 5,000 books in Kannada language, to the Kannadigas settled in Brazil.[15] Its online business[16] has eight million users.[15]

Store67

A store chain was started by Sapna Book House, named Store67 which included stationery products for students.[3][17]

SapnaINK

A platform SapnaINK,[18] was started by Sapna Book House on December 2014, for new authors to publish their books.[19]

Background

Sapna Book House was started by Suresh Shah, on 26 January 1967 near Majestic, Bangalore on a rent-based store, and later as an independent mall in Gandhi Nagar, Bangalore,[12] initially selling Lilliput dictionaries.[3] Born in Ghatkopar, Mumbai, Maharastra, Suresh Shah's ancestors belonged to Dhoraji, Gujarat.[4] Suresh Shah previously worked as head of Mumbai-based Pocket Book Distributing Company's new branch in Chennai[3]

Currently his eldest son Nitin Shah, is the Managing Director[12] and grandson Nijesh is the Group President of Sapna Book House and CEO of Sapna Infoway.[3][8][7] The company has 5 directors namely Paresh Suresh Shah, Deepak Suresh Shah, Nitin Suresh Shah, Bhanumati Suresh Shah and Suresh Shah.[5]

2014

Sapna Infoway acquired Ishita Technologies Private Limited (including Bookadda.com, Acadzone.com and Koolskool.com) at a value of $13 million.[1] In May, it extended its business by setting up offices in Accra, Ghana.[3][20] As on December, the group’s online revenue touched the Rs 6.5-7 crore mark.[15]

References
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  2. "SAPNA BOOK HOUSE PRIVATE LIMITED". tofler.in. Archived from the original on 7 May 2018.
  3. "The incredible story of 52 year old bookstore Sapna Book House". financialexpress.com. 27 August 2017. Archived from the original on 7 May 2018.
  4. "Turning dreams into reality". indiatoday.in. 16 January 2008. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
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  6. "LOVE KANNADA INTO THE HEART OF KANNADA WRITING". epaper.timesofindia.com. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
  7. "Mr. Nijesh Shah, Founder & CEO, Sapna Infoway Pvt. Ltd. Interviewed By: Sandeep Kshatriya, Facilitator, The CEO Insights". theceoinsights.com. Archived from the original on 30 October 2017.
  8. "Personally Tech With SapnaOnline's Nijesh Shah". gadgets.ndtv.com. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
  9. "Company Overview of Sapna Infoway Pvt. Ltd". bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on 7 May 2018.
  10. "Bangalore's Sapna Book House is largest in the country". dnaindia.com. 29 January 2011. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
  11. "Mostly about books". thehindu.com. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013.
  12. "Treating Bengaluru to books for decades". bengaluru.citizenmatters.in. 22 July 2012. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
  13. "The successful book store you haven't heard of". livemint.com. 16 September 2015. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
  14. "Sapna Book House opens on Residency Road". deccanherald.com. 23 May 2012. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012.
  15. "Sapna Infoway plans to raise Rs 60 crore". business-standard.com. 24 April 2015. Archived from the original on 7 May 2018.
  16. "Official website Sapna book house". sapnaonline.com.
  17. "The paper tiger roars". thehindubusinessline.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2018.
  18. "Official website SapnaINK". sapnaink.com. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017.
  19. "Writer to author in just 7 days". thehindu.com. 6 May 2015. Archived from the original on 9 June 2018.
  20. "Sapna Book House arm acquires Ishita Tech in all-cash deal". thehindubusinessline.com. 3 December 2014. Archived from the original on 9 June 2018.
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