From buku to kedai: Indie publisher Fixi opens a 'real' bookstore

Local independent publisher FIXI’s first physical book store opens at Jaya Shopping Centre. Photo: The Star/ Azhar Mahfof

Amir Muhammad, founder of indie publishing company Buku Fixi, has always wanted to open a 'real' bookstore. And this year, he’s done just that. Kedai Fixi, his labour of love, opened last week in the Jaya Shopping Centre in Petaling Jaya. Amir, however, reveals he once had far loftier ambitions for this shop.

“I always wanted to open a bookstore, even before I became a publisher! But I wanted to open a bookshop and a cinematheque and a coffeeshop, all in one. It was based on certain things I saw in other cities, especially Manila,” Amir says during an interview last week at the store.