Sapna Book House
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| Parent company | Sapna Book House[1][2] |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | 26 January 1967 in Bangalore[3] |
| Founder | Suresh C. Shah[4] |
| Country of origin | India |
| Headquarters location | Bangalore |
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| Official website | www |
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Sapna Book House is an Indian book store chain and a publisher of books.[9] It is one of the biggest book shops in India.[10]
The Limca Book of Records recognised Sapna as the largest book shop in India, for seven years in a row.[6][11] The Government of Karnataka presented the Karnataka Rajyostava Award to Sapna Book House, describing it as the largest Kannada book publisher, in 2008.[6] As of May 2016, Sapna Book House has published more than 5000 books by 500 writers, including Jnanpith and Central Sahitya Academy awardees.[6]
Around sixty percent of the store includes books and the rest of stationery, multimedia products, and sports items etc.[12][13][14] It has its export of over 5,000 books in Kannada language, to the Kannadigas settled in Brazil.[15] Its online business[16] has eight million users.[15]
