We are a print-on-demand publishing house in New Delhi, working mostly with academics, research scholars, departments and independent writers. We produce books properly and we let the author keep everything that matters.
A good deal of serious Indian writing never reaches a printed page, and it is rarely because the writing is weak. A commissioning editor has to answer a sales team, and a sales team cannot forecast a monograph on regional astronomy, a Sanskrit commentary, a departmental seminar volume or a first collection of poems in a language spoken by four hundred thousand people.
Those books are exactly the ones we set up to produce. Print-on-demand removes the arithmetic that kills them: nobody has to gamble on a thousand-copy run, because copies are made when they are wanted and not before.
What is left is the part that actually matters — typesetting a difficult script correctly, getting the footnotes and the transliteration right, putting a proper ISBN on it, and handing the author a book they are willing to give to a colleague.
We are a services provider, not an acquiring publisher. We do not buy rights, we do not take exclusivity, and we do not put ourselves between an author and their own work. Everything we hold is a limited licence to do the specific job you have hired us for, and it ends when you say so.
We do not assess manuscripts on merit, run a selection committee or issue rejection letters. That is a real advantage for scholarly work — and it also means the content of a book, and the rights in it, remain the author's responsibility. We would rather be plain about that than let anyone assume a vetting that never happened.
Editing is something you order, not something that happens to you. Buy copy-editing or proofreading if you want it, and skip it if you don't. Without an editorial order we set your text as supplied, adjusting only what printing and file conversion technically require.
If a rights holder believes something we produced infringes their work, they can reach a named officer at this company and get an acknowledgement within twenty-four hours and an answer within fifteen days. That matters to authors too — it means a dispute is handled properly rather than escalating straight to a legal notice.
Everything below happens in-house or with printing partners we have worked with for years.
| Typesetting | Interior layout in Devanagari, Roman and mixed scripts, with footnotes, endnotes, tables, plates, indexes and transliteration handled properly rather than approximately. |
| Cover design | Designed to your brief, with correct spine-width calculation for the final extent and paper stock. |
| ISBN | A unique ISBN registered for every title and edition. |
| Printing | Paperback and hardbound, print-on-demand, no minimum quantity, delivered to you. |
| E-book | Conversion and listing on horizonbooks.asia at your price, with your written consent, withdrawable at any time. |
| Editorial | Copy-editing, proofreading and content writing — optional, priced separately, ordered only if you want them. |
| Proceedings | Full conference volumes to a fixed seminar date, with contributor certificates and institutional invoicing. |
| Journals | Ignited Minds journals for researchers needing a peer-reviewed venue. |
A finished manuscript, a half-finished one, or a seminar three months away — write to us and we will tell you plainly what is involved, what it costs, and how long it takes.
Horizon Books is the publishing imprint of Ignited Minds Edutech Pvt. Ltd., which runs several connected platforms serving the same community of scholars, faculty and institutions.
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Visit the magazine →Certification tracks, short-term courses, faculty development programmes and the Knowledge Series of conferences, workshops and seminars run with partner universities.
Explore programmes →One-to-one mentorship with verified academic mentors worldwide — research guidance, methodology, manuscript review and publication strategy for UG, PG and PhD scholars.
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Horizon Books is the publishing imprint of Ignited Minds Edutech Pvt. Ltd., a company registered in India.
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