If I come to the Pakistani market, most of the people buy used
books from Sunday bazaars which are located in crowded areas and are not
organized at all. Muniza, an ardent student of history, art and politics says,
“I get all my books from Sunday Bazaar” (Salman, 2009). While india, the trend
of selling used books online is gaining immense popularity, where startups like
Bookkida are gaining immense traffic. (Deb, 2014) Thus we could say that the overall print book
industry is growing with an increasing rate of 3.3% recorded in 2016 (Segura,
2017) and the industry of used books is growing along with it, with increasing
sales being recorded every year.
Considering the economic disparity among the country men e-books provide a cheap way of achieving the goal of learning. Moreover, individuals have attitudes with regard to reading are social, personal, reflective, recreational. These functions in regard to book reading along with the high costs of book, and governments lack of attention has led to overall demise of book reading culture. Reading as a cultural phenomenon with support from provincial governments has been seen to promote book reading. Example is the famous Hunza Valley of Gilgit-Baltistan. Where civil society has set up community libraries in almost each village with help of village based community organizations. Complimenting this the provincial government has kept the Municipal Library in a very good condition. However, because of lack of attention given to the book reading culture and lack of facilities provided to the public in the form of libraries, the print book industry has seen demise in the country. The ...
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