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| Parent company | Sapna Book House[1][2] |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | 26 January 1967 in Bangalore[3] |
| Founder | Suresh C. Shah[4] |
| Country of origin | India |
| Headquarters location | Bangalore |
| Key people | |
| Official website | www |
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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]
A store chain was started by Sapna Book House, named Store67 which included stationery products for students.[3][17]
A platform SapnaINK,[18] was started by Sapna Book House in December 2014, for new authors to publish their books.[19]
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]
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]
