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Goodbye books, hello stories

Nury Vittachi
Oct 09, 2013
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By a staff reporter

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IT'S WAR. Luckily the weapons are just pens, and the combatants mild-mannered authors and poets—but the prize is enormous.

The global book industry is a US$100 billion-a-year market in expansion mode, and the world’s fastest-growing division by far is Asia.

Yet authors and poets from Asia feel marginalized and are fighting back by …

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