Lahore: A three day long “Al-Hamra Book Fair” a series of event with respect to National Literary and Cultural Conference being organized by Lahore Arts Council would start from Friday, October 12, 2012, sources learnt Wednesday.
According to the sources, thousands of books would be displayed at about 20 stalls to be set up at the fair which will last till October 14. The participating publishers and booksellers would belong to Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and other cities.
All books would be carrying a 10 to 40 per cent discount in order to promote reading habits among the people. The academic event will be inaugurated by some official of Punjab government.
The event will seek to excel the need to provide the required facilities to the publishers and booksellers so that they could provide low-priced reading material to the people.