Booksline is a unit of SRAS publications. We publish information based books and materials for the benefit of rural communities. The objective of our programme is to educate people through ‘simple and easy to understand’ books covering a wide range of subjects in the areas of agriculture, other related livelihoods and also subjects relating to women’s health so that by reading them, rural people can learn to set up an income generating livelihood, learn about health & nutrition and thereby improve the quality of their life.

We produce handbooks, posters, flip books and training manuals in print form as well as in electronic form, in Telugu, the local language of the state of Andhra Pradesh of India. We are planning to publish in other Indian languages soon.

Our publications are useful to individuals, for the communities as well as grassroots level trainers who are directly in contact with the communities. They also serve as excellent support material for training programmes conducted by various agencies at grassroots level. The books are available and supplied in PDF format on demand, either by email or in CDs.

• We select subjects after identifying the information needs of the people. After selecting the subject, we bring out either a comprehensive book or divide the subject into appropriate sub topics and publish a series of smaller books. This gives our readers a choice to buy all or only a selected few as per his/her requirement.
• The scripts are written and developed by consulting technical experts from various reputed national level institutions/universities and the final scripts are reviewed by other experts, to ensure the content quality and make them technically sound. The books are then revised and translated into the local language, after which they are field tested with the target audience to ensure maximum utility.
  
• To suit our target audiences, the books are written in easy to understand language and contain a lot of illustrations / photographs. The books are very colourful and appealing, and have a reasonably good quality production.
  
• Prices of the books are kept low to make them affordable.