Rupert Murdoch is planning the launch of an Indian edition of The Wall Street Journal.He’s not alone to look at this gigantic market where print press enjoys a double digit growth. “Last year, all of India’s papers added 12 million new readers, says Raju Narisetti, the editor of the business paper Mint points. That is equivalent to five Wall Street Journals. There are 360 million Indians who can read and write and don’t read a paper”.
> see this great features story in The Independent on Sunday (soon to be available in India))
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