Promoting book culture through website

Amritsar, May 21

To encourage book reading, especially among rural people, a youth has created a website for delivery of books at the click of a button. It’s a convenient mode for any reader to ask for book of his choice which will be made available at his door step.

Ravinderjit Singh, a computer engineering postgraduate, had come up with his website — hook2book.com — two years ago and found good feedback from book lovers. He feels it’s a myth that Punjabis don’t read books and that there is no book culture here. “Booksellers are available only in major cities. One can’t buy book from towns like Tarn Taran, Khemkaran, Ajnala, Kalanur and Gurdaspur due to non availability. Even shopping websites don''t deliver books in rural areas. So I have started the website," he says. —TNS