Sampark Books
A Kolkata literary press taken online with Neusler — magazine CMS, bookstore, and order management under one platform.
About the Project
Founded in 1998, SAMPARK is a literary-academic press based in Kolkata. It publishes around thirty-five titles a year in English, Bengali and Hindi — fiction and poetry, biographies, academic works in the social sciences, travelogues, narrative non-fiction, and children's books. Its list includes translations from French, Norwegian, German, Chinese, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Turkish, Slovenian, Irish, Welsh, Italian, Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada, and the press is a regular presence at Frankfurt and other international book fairs.
Sampark also publishes Eastern Review, a magazine with a special focus in every issue. Neumeral implemented Neusler — our publishing platform — as the single system behind both sides of the business: the magazine and the bookstore. We delivered the engagement end-to-end, from registering the domain and standing up hosting through to configuring Razorpay and handing over a working order management workflow.
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The Challenge
Sampark had a catalogue built over twenty-five years, a magazine with an established readership, and no way to sell either online. Reaching readers meant book fairs, distributors, and phone orders — which caps a press that publishes in three languages and translates from sixteen more.
The obvious route was to bolt together a CMS, a hosted store, a payment gateway, and an order tool. For a team whose work is editorial, not technical, that meant four systems to learn and maintain, and no single place to see what had been published or what had been sold. What they needed was one platform, and someone to stand the whole thing up for them — domain and hosting included, not just the software.
- Neusler implementation: Deployed Neusler as the single platform behind both the magazine and the bookstore — one editorial workflow, one catalogue, one order pipeline.
- Magazine CMS for Eastern Review: Category and contributor management with issue-based publishing, so the editorial team files articles without touching code.
- eCommerce enablement: The full catalogue online — filterable by category, language, and imprint — with book detail pages carrying pricing, stock status, binding, page count, ISBN, and author profiles.
- Order management: Cart, checkout, customer accounts, and an order pipeline the team runs day to day for fulfilment.
- End-to-end delivery: Domain registration, hosting, Razorpay merchant setup and integration, catalogue migration, and team handover — all handled by Neumeral.
Tech Stack
- Neusler — publishing CMS and editorial OS
- Magazine publishing with categories and contributors
- Product catalogue and order management
- Managed cloud hosting
- Next.js with server-side rendering
- Faceted catalogue search and filtering
- Responsive, SEO-optimised page delivery
- Razorpay payment gateway (INR)
- Cart, checkout, and customer accounts
- Domain registration and DNS configuration
Results & Impact
The difference it made.
Selling Direct
Sampark now sells its full catalogue directly to readers, no longer limited to book fairs and distributor channels.
One Platform, Not Four
Magazine, bookstore, and orders run on Neusler alone — the editorial team publishes and fulfils without juggling separate CMS, storefront, and payment tools.
Live Without a Tech Team
Domain, hosting, payments, and content migration were delivered end-to-end, so a press with no in-house engineers went live and stays live.
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