World Book Day

by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 05, 2014 09:33 AM

Dr. U.B.Pavanaja was one of the speakers on the program arranged on account of World Book Day by Karnataka Publishers’ Association at the Indian Institute of World Culture, Basavanagudi.

He spoke about the importance of giving info about Kannada books in Kannada Wikipedia, about digitization of books, ebooks and audio books.

Click to read the media coverage in the Hindu.

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