Vishal Info Subsidiary To Launch Book Portal CoralHub Online Service, a subsidiary of e-publishing company Vishal Information Technologies has published classics since 2006 and has a catalog of 5,600 titles. It will be launching an online book store with 3 million books, and plans to ramp it up to 60 million by September. (MyIris) It will be competing against Infibeam's recently launched bookstore, Pustak, Flipkart, Rediff Books, In.com Books, eBay's Books section and FutureBazaar Books. Pustak claims to have 20 million books, so CoralHub's ability to scale up and offer a wider variety will be crucial in this market. eBay also owns Half.ebay.com, a second hand store for books, music, DVDs and CDs. The design looks like it was done sometime early in 2000, and certainly needs to take cues on content discovery from the likes of Amazon. India Today's News Buzzer Service India Today has set up a group Twitter service that is fed by its journalists. News Buzzer sees a constant stream of twitter updates from across the country. Though it says it brings news from the "corridors of glamour," we find it retains the same theme of the magazine - India related political news. News Buzzer on Twitter has 1,921 updates logged as of the time of writing this article and 401 followers. You can comment either on the website or on Twitter. News Buzzer's updates are just a flood of formal-sounding, clipped headlines without attributions/references. If Twitter has taught us one thing it is that quality is…
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