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About Our Company

Our Company Profile:

Established in the year 1961 by a young dynamic woman entrepreneur, late Smt. Sushila C. Shah, who had passed out of Osmania University, having completed M.A. (Economics).

The firm started with trading and supplying of books in Medical, Veterinary and Engineering subjects. Most of the books were imported from Britain, USA and sourced from Bombay wholesalers and suppliers.

Over the years, the firm supplied books to many universities, R&D Institutes, IITs, and NITs across the country.

In the year 2007, the firm "The Book Syndicate" along with other different family-owned partnership firms got amalgamated into a private limited company named "Shah Book House Pvt. Ltd.", and is known today as The Book Syndicate (A unit of Shah Book House Private Limited).

Today, it has business relations with all major publisher groups like John Wiley, McGraw-Hill, Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and many more. Latest books from all over the world are on display always and are updated on a continuous basis. It has established relations with Amazon and Ingram, USA for importing books from various small and non-commercial publishers, which otherwise are difficult to obtain in India (complete details of our suppliers are given in the authorized dealers list).

Our Group Company Units:

  1. The Book Syndicate
  2. Bookionics-Hyderabad and Bookionics-Vijayawada Branch specializing in the distribution of textbooks to Private Engineering, MBA, and Post Graduate Colleges.
  3. Book Promoters & Suppliers, specializing in book supplies to various book dealers across the state.
  4. Pharma Book Syndicate, specializing in book supplies to Pharmaceutical R & D and Pharmacy Colleges.

Memberships:

We have been members of Federation of Publishers and Booksellers Associations (FPBA) since the inception of the association.

Campus Bookstores:

The company manages campus bookstores at:

  1. Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad Campus
  2. Birla Institute of Sciences (BITS), Hyderabad Campus
  3. University of Hyderabad (UoH), run by sister concern company Bibliotheque Books Pvt. Ltd.
  4. The English and Foreign Language University, run by sister concern company Bibliotheque Books Pvt. Ltd.
  5. Mahindra École Centrale University
  6. RGUKT Kadapa

List of Publishers for whom we are authorized distributors in India

Cengage Learning Group

South-Western, Brooks / Cole, Course Technology, Delmar Learning, Heinle, Nelson, Schirmer, South-Western, Thomson, Wadsworth, Gale, Houghton Mifflin, Custom.

John Wiley & Sons Group

Wiley, Jossey-Bass, Pfeiffer, Capstone, Wiley-Blackwell

Elsevier Group

Academic Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, Digital Press, Focal Press, Gulf Professional, Jai Press, Morgan Kaufmann, Newnes, North Holland, Pergamon

Taylor & Francis Group

Routledge, CRC Press, Europa Publications, Fitzroy Dearborn, Marcel Dekker, Psychology Press, Routledge Curzon, Routledge Falmer, Taylor & Francis, Guilford Press, Garland Science.

Springer Group

Springer, Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, Physica Verlag, VDI Verlag, Nature Group.

Palgrave Group

Palgrave Macmillan, W H Freeman, Macmillan Reference, Sinauer Associates, University Science Books, Worth Publishers

Pearson Group

Pearson Education India, Longman, Cisco Press, Prentice Hall, Addison Wesley, Adobe Press, PI Press, Wharton School of Publishing, PHPTR, QUE, Micromedia Press, SAMS, New Riders, Benjamin Cummings, Peachpit Press, Brady Games.

McGraw-Hill Education (India) Ltd

Edward Elgar

Sage Publications

Artech House

Oxford University Press

Cambridge University Press

World Scientific Publishing

Other Independent Publishers like Island Press, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), Museum Of Fine Arts Budapest, Society of British Theatre Designers, National Academies Press, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Royal Society of Chemistry, University of Buckingham Press, Verso Books, ABC-CLIO, CABI (Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International), Clinical Publishing, Combined Academic Publishers (Duke, Fordham, Indiana, McGill-Queens, New York, Ohio, Stanford University, University of Illinois Press, University of Nebraska, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Texas Press, University of Washington).

List of Customers for whom we are the major suppliers/Vendors

Defence / Research Institutes:

  1. Defense Electronics and Research Laboratories (DERL)
  2. National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC)
  3. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
  4. Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCME)
  5. National Defense Academy Pune
  6. ARDE, Pune
  7. HEMRL, Pune
  8. ADRIN, IDRBT, NMDC, and many more

Government University Libraries:

  1. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University - Hyderabad, Anantapur, and Kakinada
  2. University of Hyderabad
  3. Osmania University
  4. Andhra University
  5. Maulana Azad National Urdu University and many more
  6. Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University, School of Architecture, Masab Tank
  7. National Institute of Fashion Technology, Madhapur
  8. Indian Institute of Technology - Hyderabad
  9. International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad
  10. Indian Institute of Technology - Tirupati
  11. Indian Institute of Technology - Bhilai / Ropar
  12. Indian Institute of Management - Nagpur
  13. Indian Institute of Management - Visakhapatnam
  14. C-DAC - Pune

Private Engineering Colleges / University Colleges:

  1. KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
  2. K L University, Guntur
  3. GITAM University
  4. VIT Amaravati
  5. SRM University, Amaravati
  6. Mahindra École Centrale University
  7. Indian School of Business (ISB)
  8. BITS Pilani, Hyderabad
  9. Symbiosis University, Hyderabad
  10. SVKM Narsee Monjee, Hyderabad
  11. Institute of Management Technology, Hyderabad
  12. Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad
  13. Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology
  14. Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology
  15. Vignan University
  16. GMR Group of Institutions and many more
  17. ICFAI and many more

Pharmacy R & D and Corporate Institutions:

  1. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
  2. Shantha Biotechnics
  3. Aurobindo Pharma
  4. CA Technologies
  5. Tata Consultancy Services
  6. Hetero Drugs
  7. Sai Life Sciences and around 500 mid-size Pharma companies across India