"After multiple trials, one becomes a loyal subscriber to audiobooks": Storytel's Yogesh Dashrath Share Via: The country manager India at Storytel, which competes with the likes of Amazon's Audible, Scribd, etc., talks about the growth of his platform and the industry. Landmark and Crossword bookstores across India have remained shut for the most part of 2020 and 2021. Declared "non-essential" by the government, the country's book publishing industry saw players finding different ways of selling. In an interview with the Press Trust of India (PTI), Ananth Padmanabhan, CEO, HarperCollins Publishers India, said that 2020 was an unprecedented year, with zero sales for over three months.