Indian publishers gear up for Pak market
New Delhi: Indian publishers are gearing up to exhibit their books in Lahore next year to strengthen business ties, though roadblocks like piracy and restrictions on export impede cooperation.

The Delhi Book Fair saw the participation of 12 publishers and 200 people from the book industry in Pakistan as also several poets and artists. And the publishers from the neighbouring country are happy about the "great response" they have received.

An eight-member working group was also formed to promote book trade, co-publishing and sale and purchase of copyrights between the publishers of the two countries.

The cooperation between the publishing industries of the two countries got a boost exactly a year ago, with the signing of an MoU on August 25, 2003 between the FIP and the Pakistan Publishers and Booksellers Association (PPBA).
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