Suneet Tuli, CEO of Datawind, the company that developed the low-cost Akash tablet, told WSJ:

The media in India was reporting last month this supposedly feel-good story that the country now has 100 million active Internet users. But if you read more closely, you realized that they were defining ‘active’ as using the net once a month.

If you were counting only people who accessed the Internet at least once every other day, the number drops to 48 million. That’s 4 percent of the Indian population. On the other hand, India now has over 900 million mobile phone subscriptions.

Founder Sachin Bansal shares some interesting statistics about Flipkart’s growth in India:

• Flipkart ships close to 30,000 items per day or about 20 per minute.
• The daily sales of Flipkart is Rs 2.5cr or around $ 0.5m.
• Around 60% of Flipkart’s orders are cash or card on delivery.

“Indian consumers are much more cautious about shopping online as compared to the West. They are reluctant to divulge credit card details. The cash on delivery service has helped a lot of traditional consumers turn to online shopping,” he told the Hindustan Times.

Some people I know don’t even have a credit card but they do frequently shop at Flipkart.

My book – The Most Useful Websites – got some decent reviews this week. Excerpts:

By Michael Schilli (on Amazon)

This is a quite interesting collection of quick descriptions of 150 web sites, many of which you’ve probably never heard of, providing useful services for free. Everything from slicing and dicing browser content in order to read or print or store it more efficiently, to finding out who’s behind a web site or hosting it or how much traffic major sites get, to editing PDFs, to recognizing EXIF data in images, to sending faxes, to sending email anonymously, to scheduling your social updates … it’s impossible to list everything here, but you get the picture: You really get a lot of different, throughout useful and often pleasantly surprising tips.

By Ludwig Flug (on Facebook)

I’m the one, who bought this. Every chapter has one theme, one or more links and a few sentences to explain the theme and the links. Among a few well-known I found a few interesting infos and a few very worthful pearls of internet-tools. I’m happy, that I bought this book. Look at the price. It’s cheap.

By Marie Boe (via Email)

I just got your ebook on Amazon.com for 3,99$. (I live in Montreal, Quebec). Very good info and easy to consult on Kindle as all the links work very well in the table of contents and for every site.

Thank you all who bought the book. I self-published this book using Amazon’s KDP platform and this WSJ story discusses in detail how I went about it.