Daastan Publishers

Daastan Publishers is a Pakistani self-publishing company, founded by Syed Ommer Amer in 2014.

Daastan Publishers
StatusActive
Founded2014 (2014)
FounderSyed Ommer Amer
Country of originPakistan
Publication typesBooks
Official websitedaastan.com

History

In 2014, Syed Ommer Amer, a university student and writer, launched Daastan as Pakistan's first for-profit self-publishing company. He, along with his two friends, submitted a proposal for a self-publishing platform to the Plan9's 5th incubation cycle, which is Pakistan's largest technology incubator managed by the Government of Punjab, Pakistan. The proposal was chosen and funded.[1][2][3]

Daastan also arranges story writing competitions and a podcast, Nishast, for new writers.[2]

Projects

In January 2016, Daastan was branched into two projects; Qissa, a self-publishing wing for writers to self-publish themselves and freelance wing, a marketplace for Pakistani writers.[1][2] The portal of Qissa has been modeled on Amazon's CreateSpace.[3][4]

References
  1. Kim, Farah (24 January 2017). "Daastan – Reviving Pakistan's literary sector one click at a time". Dawn.
  2. Aijaz, Rahul (18 June 2017). "Daastan offers Pakistan's first self-publishing platform". The Express Tribune.
  3. "Meet Daastan, a publishing platform for budding Pakistani writers". Techjuice. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  4. "داستان، اپنی کتاب خود شائع کرنے کا ویب پورٹل". Urdu VOA. 30 October 2019.
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