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Friday, April 24, 2009

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Malaysia has to publish 27,000 book titles for general reading annually to become a knowledgeable, developed nation and be on par with other developed countries ...
See how this little piece in The Star the other day made our Daphne splutter.

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  1. That made me splutter too. It's such a Malaysian solution.

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  2. Confusing quantity for quality again, people do that a lot.

    The reason there are 40,000 lecturers and professors is that your average prof makes 15-30K a month.

    The reason there are no writers is that you sell, on the average, 2 books a month (if you're lucky.)

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  3. where's all that paper going to come from i wonder...

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