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PTI: New Delhi, Feb 06 2013, 13:39 IST
is priced at Rs 1, was a Chacha Chaudhary comic book," says Nikhil Chandra, Senior Manager, of the company.

The company has also tied up with leading publishing houses in India quite recently.

“We are pleased to announce tie ups with 50 esteemed publishers of our country like Roli Books, World Wide Media, Delhi Press, V&S publishers and others," says Jha.

With this contract Rockstand have now added more than 1000 books from these publishers to its existing stock of 2 million books. These books include books in English, Hindi and various regional languages. Some of the famous titles include

Chacha Chaudhary, Billoo and Pinki by Diamond Comics, famous novel titled Tamas by Bhisma Sahini by Rajkamal Prakashan along few other titles like Bhagat Singh Ko Fansi, Chitralekha etc.

Under Katha some famous titles includes "Ambai: Two novellas and a story", "Forsaking Paradise" and "The Essence of Camphor".

Under OM Books, Rockstand have various titles such as "Housefull: The Golden Age of Indian Cinema", "Shahrukh Can" and one of the recently launched books "The Adventures of an intrepid film critic" in digital edition which is exclusively available on Rockstand. These titles have been uploaded and are live on Rockstand.

The company says it is in talks with the government to include their application into the Akash Tablets which are being distributed by the HRD Ministry to students in the

country. "We have discussed with the government to include our application the Akash Tablet so that syllabus text books can also be made available for the

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Is BENGALI e-Book being included in this List of 18 Languages?

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