NBF Reader Club membership launch today

Islamabad: With an aim to encourage and promote book culture among the people, the National Book Foundation will begin the membership of its Readers’ Club today (Wednesday).

Adviser to the prime minister on national history and literary heritage Irfan Siddiqui will inaugurate the membership launch during a special ceremony at the main NBF offices here.

According to the NBF, the membership will be issued to the people on the ‘first come, first served’ basis in the major cities of the country, including Islamabad, Lahore, Faisalabad, Wah Cantonment, Multan, Peshawar, Abbottabad, Dera Ismail Khan, Quetta, Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Larkana, Khairpur, Jacobabad, Gilgit and Muzafarabad.

The Readers Club is a public oriented book promotional activity attracting people to buy books of their choice at half the original price. Besides promoting reading habit, it also encourages the book industry, help increase literacy rate, create reasonable demand for good quality reading material and motivate youths to read more and more books.  The club membership allows registered members to purchase books of up to Rs 6,000 with a 55 per cent discount on all books, excluding textbooks from NBF bookshops, and 50 per cent discount from the panel bookstores throughout the country.