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Yes, as per ISBN International’s website, there are 2000+ publishers in Pakistan. However, issue is that a huge majority of them is into traditional publishing.If you delve a bit more then significant portion out of them is primarily into ‘publishing coursebooks’. I am not sure that which sort of publisher you are looking for.Generally some broad categories of publishers are as followsTraditional publishersSelf publishersI wont go into more details as I already wrote a detailed review to these types in past questions which I answered. However, there is further classification intoFictionNon-fictionChildren FictionReligiousResearch workMagazinesPoetryI am not sure about the language in which you intend to publish. Usually each publisher operates in a niche e.g. if you have an action thriller novel in English (like I had when I started Daastan ) then you can’t go to Afaq publishers. They only do course books. Similarly, Sang-e-meel publishers are strictly into Urdu. So you need to identify your niche before approaching a publisher.Assuming you have a clear understanding of what your content is about then a good place to inquire about such publishers is to go to Welcome to the U.S. ISBN Agency! and search their directory. It is really hard and tiring process but there is a chance that you might find the publisher’s contact details there. Then you will call them to inquire about their publishing process. Just keep in mind that publishers in Pakistan, generally do not pay authors anything and will expect you to pay them like 100,000 PKR or more to publish your content through them.Another place to inquire about publishers is by calling to National Library Of Pakistan. They have an ISBN office inside their building which can guide you. They are the official entity responsible to maintain a national database of all publishers of Pakistan and the titles which they publish. Usually, they are not authorized to give out any information. But still give them a call and may be you are able to get something out of them.If you are based in Pakistan, which I am assuming you are, then visit Urdu baazaar of Lahore or Rawalpindi. You will find lot of publishers there. HOWEVER, keep in mind that most of them are illiterate and they just know that how to operate a machine which prints :P Don’t expect them to be professional in their conduct, they will not do any paper work with you. Punjabi is an ideal language to communicate with them. They will ask for cash upfront. Also expect that they will not even entertain you IF you do not have a finalized manuscript and book cover in soft form in your hand. You must have sound technical knowledge of book types, sizes, paper qualities and bindings to communicate with them. Otherwise, expect to be ripped off or rejected :PThere is Oxford publishers too. They have a website form where you can drop your manuscript query and if you are lucky then they will contact you. Again they too focus on academic books. Fiction writers have almost close to zero chances of getting published in Pakistan as we do not have enough publishers there who are doing it seriously and in a professional manner.I am not sure if you are aware of self-publishing or not. Amazon’s Createspace is a good option to publish but you just can’t draw out your earnings out of it. Same goes for other platforms like smashwords, lulu or any other selfpublishing platform. However, we, at Daastan launched Qissa - Unfold your stories which is Pakistan’s first self-publishing platform.We have published around 200 manuscripts in 13 genres written by authors from over 17 countries in 2 languages. We have 3000+ global users which are growing steadily each week. With almost 500 readers per day who spend an average of 5 minutes of their time on our website, you can definitely consider publishing your work through us.The best part is that you can not only publish digitally through our platform but also go in print publishing too using crowdfunding campaigns. In this way, you as an author dont have to pay a single rupee from your own pocket. Our platform provides you a cushion to test your content before you even think about investing anything in it.If there is anything related to publishing in Pakistan which you want inquire, shoot us an email at [email protected] Our experts will guide you that what’s the best possible option out there for you. Our motto is that “we are here to help”.Still, if you feel I missed anything then leave a message, I will get back to it.

Hello I am New in Here, My name is Sikha Sharma from Delhi. Today I discussing Many more Great Advertisements, That's a amazing. Indian Advertising starts with the hawkers calling out their wares right from the days when cities and markets first began. Concrete advertising history begins with classified advertising. ... The power of advertising increased rapidly with the growth in trade and commerce.The dawn of Indian Advertising marked its beginning when hawkers called out their wares right from the days when cities and markets first began. It was then that the signages, the trademarks, the press ads and the likes evolved.Concrete advertising history began with classified advertising. Ads started appearing for the first time in print in Hickey’s Bengal Gazette which was India’s first newspaper. Studios mark the beginning of advertising created in India as opposed to being imported from England. Studios were set up for bold type, ornate fonts, fancier, larger ads. Newspaper studios trained the first generation of visualizers and illustratorsMajor advertisers during that time were retailers like Spencer’s, Army & Navy and Whiteaway and Laidlaw. Retailers’ catalogues that were used as marketing promotions provided early example. Patent medicines: The first brand as we know them today was a category of advertisers. Horlicks becomes the first ‘malted milk’ to be patented in1883. “Munish Kumar Choudhary”B Dattaram and Co. claims to be the oldest existing Indian agency in Mumbai which was started in 1902. Later, Indian ad agencies were slowly established and they started entering foreign owned ad agencies. Ogilvy and Mater and Hindustan Thompson Associate agencies were formed in the early 1920s. In 1939, Lever’s advertising department launched Dalda – the first major example of a brand and a marketing campaign specifically developed for India. In the 1950s, various advertising associations were set up to safeguard the interests of various advertisers in the industry. In 1967, the first commercial was aired on Vividh Bharati and later in 1978; the first television commercial was seen. Various companies now started advertising on television and sponsoring various shows including Humlog and Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi.In 1986, Mudra Communications created India’s first folk-history TV serial Buniyaad which was aired on Doordarshan; it became the first of the mega soaps in the country. Later in 1991, First India-targetted satellite channel, Zee TV started its broadcast. 1995 saw a great boom in media boom with the growth of cable and satellite and increase of titles in the print medium. This decade also saw the growth of public relations and events and other new promotions that various companies and ad agencies introduced. Advertising specific websites were born, one of them being agencyfaqs now known as afaqs.And In the United States around 1840, Volney B. Palmer set up the first advertising agency in Philadelphia. ... The situation changed in the late 19th century when the advertising agency of N.W. Ayer & Son was founded in New York.The Early years of Advertising in America:1. 1843 – Volney B. Palmer opens the first American advertising agency, in Philadelphia.2. 1852 – First advertisement for Smith Brother’s Cough Candy (drops) appears in a Poughkeepsie, New York paper – the two brothers in the illustration are named “Trade” and “Mark.”3. 1856 – Mathew Brady advertises his services of “photographs, ambrotypes and daguerreotypes” in the New York Herald paper. His inventive use of type in the ad goes against the newspaper industry standard of all-agate and all same-size type used for advertisements in the papers.4. 1856 – Robert Bonner is the first to run a full-page ad in a paper, advertising his own literary paper, the New York Ledger.5. 1861 – There are twenty advertising agencies in New York City.ADVERTISEMENTS:6. 1864 – William James Carlton begins selling advertising space in newspapers, founding the agency that later became the J. Walter Thompson Company, the oldest American advertising agency in continuous existence.7. 1865 – George P. Rowell and his friend Horace Dodd open their advertising agency in Boston.8. 1867 – Lord & Taylor is the first company to use double-column advertising in newspapers.9. 1869 – N. W. Ayer and Sons advertising agency is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the following year begins advertising its own agency in both general and trade publications.10. 1869 – E. C. Allan starts the People’s Literary Companion, marking the beginning of the “mail­order” periodical.11. 1869 – The first advertisement for Sapolio soap is published.12. 1869 – George P. Rowell issues the first Rowell’s American Newspaper Directory, providing advertisers with information on the estimated circulation of papers and thus helping to standardize value for space in advertising.13. 1860s – Advertising begins to appear in nationally distributed monthly magazines.14. 1870 – 5,091 newspapers are in circulation, compared to 715 in 1830.15. 1872 – Montgomery Ward begins mail order business with the issue of its first catalog.16. 1879 – John Wanamaker places the first whole-page newspaper advertisement by an American department store.17. 1870s – Charles E. Hires begins advertising Hires Root Beer in the Philadelphia Ledger, expanding over the next two decades into national magazines.18. 1870s – $1 million dollars is spent annually advertising Lydia Pinkham’s Pink Pills.19. 1870s – Louis Prang, a lithographer and printer, develops the idea of mass-producing small “trade cards” that could be adapted to the needs of individual advertisers at low cost. Thread companies, such as Clark’s O.N.T., are among the first to begin nationwide distribution of advertising trade cards.20. 1870s – In response to the high volume of outdoor advertising (including posters and signs painted on rocks, buildings and barns) in cities and rural areas, several states begin to impose limitations to protect natural scenery from sign painters.21. 1880 – John Wanamaker hires John E. Powers, who brings a fresh style to advertising – an honest, direct and fresh appeal emphasizing the style, elegance, comfort and luxury of products. Powers is later called “the father of honest advertising.”22. 1886 – Sears, Roebuck & Company begins mail-order business.23. 1880s – Illustrated trade cards reach the height of their popularity, not only with advertisers but also with the American public, which becomes remarkably interested in collecting them.24. 1890 – J. Walter Thompson Company’s billings total over one million dollars.25. 1891 – The precursor organization to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) is created under the name Associated Bill Posters Association of United States and Canada. OAAA is not used as the organizational name until 1925.26. 1891 – Batten and Co. advertising agency is founded by George Batten in New York, merging with another agency in 1928 to form Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborne (BBDO).27. 1891 – Nathan Fowler, in Advertising Age, recommends that because women make most of the purchasing decisions of their household, manufacturers would do well to direct their advertising messages to them.28. 1900 – 192029. 1902 – Packard begins use of the long-lasting slogan “Ask the man who owns one.”30. 1902 – Unilever hires the J. Walter Thompson Company for advertising Lifebuoy Soap and later Lux and other products in America. Unilever is still with J. Walter Thompson and represents the oldest client relationship in the advertising industry.31. 1904 – Cigarette coupons are first used as a draw for a new chain of tobacco stores.32. 1914 – The first full-length feature comedy motion picture, Tillie’s Punctured Romance, stars Marie Dresser, Mabel Normand, and newcomer Charlie Chaplin.33. 1917 – A massive advertising campaign for Lucky Strike tobacco gets underway, employing the slogan “It’s Toasted.”34. 1917 – The American Association of Advertising Agencies is formed.Thanks……