Sapna Book House

Sapna Book House Pvt. Ltd.
Parent companySapna Book House[1][2]
StatusActive
Founded26 January 1967; 57 years ago (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

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]

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 in 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]

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  10. ^ "Bangalore's Sapna Book House is largest in the country". dnaindia.com. 29 January 2011. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018.
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  14. ^ "Sapna Book House opens on Residency Road". deccanherald.com. 23 May 2012. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012.
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  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.