All publishers admit they have been badly hit by GST. “Every product we buy has 18% GST, but books don’t have GST. So our margins are reduced,” Butalia adds. Another obstacle is distribution.

Kannada book publishers facing crisis due to declining readership and increasing costs, urging government support for survival.

and incorporates all changes made by the GST Council in its 23rd meeting, which were notified on November 14. The book is supplemented by commodity-wise rate reckoner to help the readers to ...