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Calligraphers' Ink : The calligraphers use a special kind of ink for calligraphy. It has been stated that there is only one company in the country which holds virtual monopoly of this item. No research has so far been conducted either to improve the quality or to 7.93
a substitute for it. This needs to be looked into. 7.94 Railway Stalls : The Railway bookstalls used to provide the biggest outlet for Urdu find
and journals but of late there have been complaints from the publishers and the books
reader alike that the facility has been virtually withdrawn. Urdu books and journals that are sent to them are shoved away in some obscure corner of the shop. If true, the Railway Ministry should see to it that the Urdu books are also displayed general
at the railway bookstalls. 7.95 Refresher Courses : As the publishing trade in Urdu is disorganised and still in its properly
in so far as modern techniques are concerned, periodical exposure of the infancy
publishers to the latest methods being adopted by more progressive publishers will be useful. It is, therefore, suggested that the Indian Institute of Mass Communication New Delhi, or the School of Printing at Allahabad may be asked to enterprising
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the meagre print orders, the lack of expertise in book production, the absence of sales knowhow, the need of a countrgwide sales organization, the printing of pirate editions, and the abuse of the authors' rights These phenomena, unhealthy as publishers,
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they are, are not peculiar to Urdu. But the Urdu writer, being economically more vulnerable, suffers more. He also suffers because Urdu publishing trade is in the hands of a majority of petty publishers, who have neither the resources nor the sales organization to plan large editions.
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