Are Moleskines available in India? I am not sure. I definitely haven’t spotted them around. Any how, with fantastic notebook alternatives available that are much cheaper, of good quality and very likable, you won’t miss Moleskines at all.
Here’s a list of notebook alternatives you should find handy (yes, there’s just one item right now, but the list will grow as I come across good notebooks. Let me know if you can add to this list, drop a comment).
1. Rubberband Notebooks
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Available at
Note: For addresses and contact details of stores in these cities, go to the website and you’ll find them under ‘Stores’.
Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Baroda, Calicut, Chennai, Coimbatore, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Pune, Salem, Secunderabad
Noida- Odyssey, No: 240, 2nd floor, Great India Place, Sector 28A, Noida: 210301, Tel: +91 120 4349 581/ 582 (I first saw these here).
Website
Contact Details
Telephone: +91 22 6451 2478, +91 22 2354 1861
Email: info@rubberbandproducts.com
Advice for Rubberband
In case you come across this post, this advice is for you. I wouldn’t have bothered giving it but I think you have some nice products and I would definitely like to see them being bought more.
Your website is a stand alone Flash website. It looks pleasant and is well done from a visual design point of view. However, at current, poor SEO, SEM and a number of usability issues are seriously cutting through using the website as a channel to create awareness of and sell your product. A web strategy that addresses these issues amongst others will help you use the web to increase sales which it currently doesn’t seem to be doing very well.
2. Brahma Books
Available at
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Website
Contact Details
Telephone: +919818503278
Email: brahmaforces@gmail.com
Buy Moleskine in India
If you still want to buy Moleskine in India, here is where you can order it from Flipkart beginning a little over Rs. 500.
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Hi. I started Rubberband-keep it together along with Maithili Shah. I just came across your blog-link regarding the products.
Firstly I thank you for mentioning us.
Secondly you are right-our website does need a revisit. We have been considering e-selling and are presently trying to work towards this.
Thanks for your suggestion.
best regards,
Ajay
Good to have you drop by Ajay. I like RB-02/A5/RBR- Plain. My advice for your website would be to convert it from a standalone Flash website to an XHTML website if you want for usability and search engine optimization benefits, and this means more conversions for you.
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Moleskine products are available at the Landmark Store in Palladium Mall, Lower Parel, Mumbai. I believe they are the only persons in India who have it.
I have been going nuts looking for Moleskines in India. Guess I’ll check out the rubberband stuff now. Thanks for this post..
Now Moleskin available at William Penn, where you can find all kind of Moleskin accessories.
I found an excellent alternative to Moleskine in India, Brahma Books.
While Moleskine is available at William Penn stores and landmark it retails at Rs. 1000. This is double the rate at which it is available abroad, $10 to $12. The other books out there are nice but sorely lacking in paper quality and that defeats the purpose of a good drawing/writing books.
The Brahma Books all use acid free paper of excellent quality. They have 2 lines, an Amateur line which uses excellent Acid free paper and a Professional Line. The professional line is far superior to Moleskine as they use the best drawing papers in the world including BFK Reeves, Fabriano, Canson among others. Moleskine uses chinese paper.
The design of the Brahma Books seems similar to Moleskine. Also they dont have plastic covers like some of the other books on the market as Plastic is not biodegradable or eco friendly. I’ve enjoyed working on these. I bought mine at a stationary store in Delhi.
Here is an online link: http://www.facebook.com/brahmabooks
karuna, thanks for the info. I’ve added the details to the post.
Your welcome Abhay, I am not sure where to buy them but Brahma posted some photos online which i found through their facebook page…very interesting:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brahmabooks/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brahmabooks/page2/