Appraisal of Formative Years of Malaysian Book Publishing

Abstract

In studying the contemporary Malaysian book trade it may be useful to examine the role of the colonial ruler in shaping the educational system because the life of a book-related industry is much dependent upon the development of the preliterate and oral-based society into the book-reading society of the 90s in Malaysia. Therefore the purpose of this paper is to study the general thinking on education and development and its impact on the present structure of the trade.