What Do Asians Really Want to Read?

Asians may identify more closely with success stories akin to the American Dream than with the colonial values left by Europeans in the last centuries, writes Duncan Jepson.

What Do Horatio Alger and Book Piracy Have in Common? Patterns of book piracy can tell you a lot about the aspirations of a culture and what people really want to read. And it might direct you toward the next bestseller.

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From the Archives: The Peculiar Path of the E-book Transition in Singapore Despite a tech-savvy population of avid readers, Singapore has been overlooked by the global e-booksellers and local solutions are slow in developing.