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The year 2020, everyone agrees, was a lousy one. Except, global lockdowns served, in very small part, as a reminder that reading is a means of escape, that the combination of a writer and your imagination can transport you to any place in any time and, unlike with film and television, there are no directors to superimpose their interpretations and their images over your own. This is not to say that publishers made out like bandits. One report, for instance, estimates that the global book-publishing industry declined by $7 billion (Rs 51.4 thousand crore) from 2019 and that it will take
