[Advaita-l] Fwd: Printing of the 'Sridakshinamurti Stotram' (Two volumes) in English

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2024, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l wrote:

>>
>> The above book, a repository of a vast range of topics of Advaita Vedanta,
>> was authored by Ve.mu.Br.Sri.D.S.Subbaramaiya and published by the Sringeri
>> Sharada Peetham in two volumes in 1988.  The book has seen two prints after
>> that and owing to popular demand, the third print is now taken up by the
>> Peetham.
>>

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>   The cost of printing 1000 copies each of the two volumes is Rs.4,00,000.
> It would be fitting for aspirants of Advaita to be       generously
> associated with the printing effort of this invaluable treasure trove of
> Vedanta.  Here is a link to the page             where 'Donations' can be
> made online with the least effort:

Many scholars and sadhakas have been waiting a long time for this good 
news.  I for one intend to make this one of my donations for Navaratri and 
buy a copy as soon as is available.

The problem with the Sanskrit book market is that there is small but 
steady demand but this doesn't scale well with todays industrial 
production demands.  A print run of a few thousand is too small for the 
big publishers and even that amount will have to sit in a warehouse for 
years as they get slowly sold.  A lot of publishers rely on subsidies from 
the Ministry of Education etc. but this is not sustainable in the long 
run.  And despite the availability of PDFs, there is still a need for 
actual physical books.

Happily the print-on-demand facility offered by Amazon, Flipkart etc. may 
be a solution.  Although slightly more costly per copy than traditional 
printing, it enables one to keep inventory small yet available.  If you 
are considering publishing Sanskrit or other Dharmik books it's something 
you should consider.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>