Malaysians should be encouraged to write more

We should be publishing 30,000 titles annually as Malaysia’s population is nearly 30 million. — filepic

THE reading habit (or lack thereof) among Malaysians is well known, so it comes as no surprise to learn that we don’t write nearly enough books as well.

According to Unesco’s standards, a developed nation should publish 1,000 books a year for every one million of its population.