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EastWest Books has a long history of over 45 years in both publishing and distribution. Westland Books, a joint venture company of Landmark and EastWest Books, established in 1984, specialised in marketing American trade publishers. It also published Indian reprints of the popular and best selling Chicken Soup series.

Areas of business
With the expertise of three companies under its fold, Westland functions in the areas of publishing, distribution (it is amongst the largest book distributors in India) and retailing of books, with a special focus on publishing.

Currently, the company has three imprints:

• Tranquebar Press, for literary fiction and non fiction
• Westland, for trade books (fiction and non fiction)
• EastWest, for south India heritage and academic cross-over books

The publishers for whom Westland distributes books include Random House, Transworld, St. Martin's Press, Simon and Schuster, Harper Collins, USA, Canongate, The Perseus group, Penguin group, Hatchette and Pan Macmillan.

Location
Westland is based in Chennai and Delhi in India