In 2016, when Amazon announced that it was acquiring the publishing business of Westland, CEO Gautam Padmanabhan had said that it was a great day for authors and readers across the globe – Amazon’s roots, after all, are in books.
More than five years later, on February 1, 2022, Padmanabhan broke the news of the company closing down its operations to its employees and authors, saying that this was a difficult decision, and Westland had been honoured to publish the work it did.
