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Farewell with a difference
In a few months, it will be fifty years since he entered the publishing industry. Celebrating that anniversary early, R. Seshadri has decided to sever his final links with the industry. He has just sold his last business interest in publishing, the German Book Centre, Madras, to a Delhi publishing house.
Seshadri, who had got interested in German as a hobby after visiting the Frankfurt Book Fair regularly, started the German Book Centre in 1982 to represent leading German publishers whose books were in demand in the IITs, Goethe Institutes and various universities.
For many years, it was the only distributor in India and Sri Lanka for learning material in German, be it for language or technical studies. Ours has been a major contribution towards the propagation of the German language in India, says Seshadri.
Seshadri started his career in publishing as a Sales Representative with Orient Longman’s. While at Longman’s, he was the first Indian from the publishing industry to be trained in sales and marketing in the U.K.. He later founded a local representative service that represented nearly a dozen leading British publishers of specialist books for institutions of higher education. He also founded his own publishing house, T.R. Publications, which published over a hundred original titles on Economics, Business, English etc. before he sold the company and began to concentrate on the German Book Centre. There are few publishers in Madras who have been going continuously to the Frankfurt Book Fair for 30 years as Seshadri has been. That’s one thing he’s likely to miss in retirement.
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