Select Books – the struggle of an independent bookshop.
This is a first‐hand account of the initial 28 years of Select Books, an independent bookshop, located in Singapore, but with a regional Southeast Asian focus and a global reach. Select Books carved a niche for itself by specializing in books about Southeast Asia and published in Southeast Asia. Its...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 6; no. 4; pp. 581 - 591 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2005
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