The  book and music retail market is at Rs1,500 crores and is growing at a rate of 15%.

The retail book outlets  furnish books across all popular and niche categories: Fiction, Classics, Non-Fiction, Travel, Cookery, Humour, Management, Religion, Philosophy and every other conceivable genre. The books  in these retail stores are sourced from national and international publishers. All types of books ranging from  fiction, self-help, professional development, non-fiction, academic, professional, vernacular books in all languages, popular genres and children’s books. Each of the large format store costs between Rs.100-200 million to set  excluding the cost of the real estate and the stocks.IUS$800 mn is the expected size of India’s mobile music market by 2009.

Leading  retail stores for Books   in India:
Books&beyond (RPG Group)
Crossword          (Shoppers’ Stop),
Landmark          (Tatas),
The Depot        (Future Group)
Reliance TimeOut (Reliance)
Wordsworth      (Ebony)

Leading  retail stores for Music &Gifts  in India
Planet –M     (Videocan)
Music world (RPG Group)

Online book and music stores:
Amazon.com  -Books
Flipkart.com   -Books
Indiatimes Music -Music