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  Malayala Manorama’s manoramaonline.com bagged the ‘Best in News Website’ South Asian Digital Media Award for the third time in a row. Among the winners are The Hindu, Hindustan Times, The Quint, Mojo Story, NDTV Convergence, Times of India Digital, and Sakal. The 2021 awards in their fifth edition received more than 140 entries, a record jump of close to double the number of entries in the previous year. These awards, presented by Wan-Ifra , recognize South Asian publishers who have delivered unique and original digital media projects in the last 12 months. These projects inspire us all, from new approaches to digital subscriptions to impactful native advertising campaigns. The ‘Gold’ winners automatically enter Wan-Ifra’s World Digital Media Awards competition.  Winners of South Asian Digital Media Awards 2021 The winners of South Asian Digital Media Awards 2021 for the different categories are -  Best News Website (or) Mobile Service Gold - Manoramaonline.com, Malay...

  Westland Books , an Indian publishing house Amazon acquired five years ago, is all set to call it quits from 31 March 2022, according to sources. The publishing house was founded in 1962, and was previously known to readers as East West Books. Amazon had acquired Westland Books from the Tatas five years back in 2017. Westland is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon Eurasia Holdings SARL and had launched its own literary fiction publishing arm in 2018, known as Context. Other imprints included Tranquebar and Eka for regional Indian vernacular languages. Westand was considered to be one of the large-scale English publishing houses in the country and was a leading publisher of fiction as well as non-fiction titles. According to recent market estimates, Westland Books had a turnover of around Rs 30 crore annually. Westland books had published many renowned authors including Amish Tripathi, Devdutt Pattanaik, Rujuta Diwekar, Preeti Shenoy, Chetan Bhagat, Rashmi Bansal, among other wel...