India celebrates

Bhupesh Trivedi, in his new edition of the Indian Media Observer, makes some interesting observations from an Indian perspective about the likely impact of China's recent crack-down on media investment. China's regulatory environment is now clearly less welcoming than India's and, although the commercial environment in India remains very challenging, many companies are indeed turning their attention in that direction.

We share Bhupesh's instint that:

In some ways, China has always been an uncertain place to do business in...This announcement is expected to significantly influence international publishers' decisions on making larger investments in an emerging economy.

Hugo Martin, ever quick to pick up on the news, has posted an interesting excerpt from Bhupesh's newsletter which makes it clear that English is far from the dominant language when it comes to magazines. For B2b, English is probably still dominant, but possibly not for ever. There were signs, the last time we looked, that local language publishing may become a more interesting trend in the B2B world as well, whether online or in print.