Rockstand, an e-book initiative by Handygo Technologies, has partnered with M-Y Books, VJM Media Group, Network 18 Publications, Kalki Magazine, Pearl publications, Sapna book house, Sharda Prakashan. Post partnership, Rockstand will get access to the entire book collection of these publishers and provide the digitized version of these books on its platform. The partnership will allow Rockstand to expand its e-book and e-magazine collection across various categories such as regional content, lifestyle, entertainment and celeb magazine. Through VJM Media Group, Rockstand will get titles in film, lifestyle category with magazines such as Hi! Blitz, OK! India, and Cine Blitz. Through Network 18 Publication, it will get titles such as Overdrive, Entrepreneur, Better Photography, Better Interiors, among others, and from Kalki Magazine it will get access to magazine titles in Tamil language. Besides this, it has also updated its Android app to add more social features such as share views, ideas, book reviews, among others. The company claims that the new app with social features is still in beta and that it will release a final version in next few weeks. Rockstand app is available on Android smartphone platform and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store. Rockstand allows publishers to share the pdf of the books with RockASAP Retail Pvt Limited which are then converted by them into ePub. Rockstand bears the cost of digitizing the books. In February 2013, Rockstand had partnered with publishers like Diamond Comics Books, OM Books, Rajkamal Prakashan, Katha, Times Group and Pratham. At that time, the company had claimed that it also plans to partner with Disney…
