Booksline brings out information-based self learning materials and books on livelihoods and women’s health issues for rural people, which are used by the target audience directly or by the organizations that work with the rural masses for their development.

Booksline can do the following:
1) carry out the necessary research to give complete information on the topic by approaching experts from various institutions/universities,
2) shoot pictures,
3) get artworks prepared,
4) develop and edit the script, put together the content initially in English,
5) carry out reviews by other experts to ensure that the material is technically correct,
6) translate and adapt scripts in the local languages of India,
7) field-test the scripts with the target audience (ie villagers or the field staff) to ensure its maximum utility, before producing it.

Organizations can approach Booksline with a proposal of developing material for the grassroots level audience.

Publishing for NGOs:
Booksline offers publishing assistance to NGOs, donor agencies, Government departments, institutions/universities and even corporate companies in developing their own material such as their study reports, annual reports and other communication material like brochures, posters, power point presentations, and short films, by providing the editorial assistance, translation, design, layout, and printing and dispatching of the material.

Booksline is in the process of establishing a network of reading clubs in a few villages of Andhra Pradesh, wherever the literacy levels are low and reading books is a problem.

A young woman from the village is selected and trained, as a book reader, who reads our books to a group of 15 members (selected from existing network group in that village), and one book is read every week in a two-hour reading session.

Booksline is interested in working in partnership with the organizations having network in the villages. The books are supplied by Booksline to the clubs in the print form or PDF form, which either can be read aloud or viewed with the help of computers. Booksline also helps the organization to selects the book readers and provides training to them.

At present, there are 15 clubs functioning in Mahaboobabad mandal of Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh.

Booksline is preparing a pilot programme of on-demand training by using power point presentation on various technologies and techniques required to be learned by the communities. These training modules are on various livelihood activities and will impart training at people’s doorstep. The material generated while publishing the books, is used to prepare the training modules and the resource people / experts who develop scripts, will provide trainers. The trainees could be farmers, women or facilitators at grassroots level.

• The information will be given along with a lot of pictures in a slide show of power point presentation
• Exclusive sessions will be held on demonstration of technologies eg .1) Urea treated paddy straw (UTPS), Silage making, Clean milk production in case of Dairy cattle management or 2) Leafy vegetable preparations for prevention of Anaemia in women.
• A field trip to a nearby ideal unit will be held.

1. Booksline plans to adapt these books into 4 to 5 other languages of India, such as Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil and Oriya. The master copies are ready in English, so the adaptation in the other languages will be easy.
2. More titles will be produced to take the number of titles from 65 to 100 in a couple of years.
3. The reading clubs also will be established and the training programmes will be done for the neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh.