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It gives me great pleasure to present the catalogue for the 50 Best Malaysian Titles for International Rights 2011.
The titles were selected based on submissions and feedback from publishers and other independent parties. It was not easy to select 50 titles from the many proposed. Apart from quality content and production, the titles had to reflect Malaysian culture and be able to travel across borders.
We hope this is the start of an ongoing endeavour to promote excellent Malaysian books to the international market.
Malaysian publishers produced 15000 titles in 2010. We aim to increase this figure to 26000 titles a year. To this end, a number of initiatives have been announced, including plans for a Book City in Kuala Lumpur in 2012.
The Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair attracts more than one million visitors each year. The Trade and Copyright Centre (TCC), now in its third year, is held in conjunction with the book fair. It is the largest Rights fair in South East Asia, which reflects the fact that there is a lot of room for growth in the buying and selling of rights in this part of the world.
I would like to take this opportunity to invite you - publishers, booksellers, librarians, agents, media specialists and all those involved in the book trade - to come to Malaysia for the 4th Trade and Copyright Centre which will be held from 25-28th April, 2012 in Kuala Lumpur. We promise you a vibrant and friendly environment in which you will meet potential business partners from South East Asia and around the region.
Our stories and our lives are in our books, so I hope you will find the titles here of interest and will want to know more.
I wish you a good fair!
Dr. A ‘Azmi bin Shahri
Director
National Book Council of Malaysia Secretariat
The titles were selected based on submissions and feedback from publishers and other independent parties. It was not easy to select 50 titles from the many proposed. Apart from quality content and production, the titles had to reflect Malaysian culture and be able to travel across borders.
We hope this is the start of an ongoing endeavour to promote excellent Malaysian books to the international market.
Malaysian publishers produced 15000 titles in 2010. We aim to increase this figure to 26000 titles a year. To this end, a number of initiatives have been announced, including plans for a Book City in Kuala Lumpur in 2012.
The Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair attracts more than one million visitors each year. The Trade and Copyright Centre (TCC), now in its third year, is held in conjunction with the book fair. It is the largest Rights fair in South East Asia, which reflects the fact that there is a lot of room for growth in the buying and selling of rights in this part of the world.
I would like to take this opportunity to invite you - publishers, booksellers, librarians, agents, media specialists and all those involved in the book trade - to come to Malaysia for the 4th Trade and Copyright Centre which will be held from 25-28th April, 2012 in Kuala Lumpur. We promise you a vibrant and friendly environment in which you will meet potential business partners from South East Asia and around the region.
Our stories and our lives are in our books, so I hope you will find the titles here of interest and will want to know more.
I wish you a good fair!
Dr. A ‘Azmi bin Shahri
Director
National Book Council of Malaysia Secretariat
