Affordable English-language bookseller arrives in Myanmar

Yangon fair marks eighth country for Big Bad Wolf Books after Thailand and Philippines

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The Big Bad Wolf book fair has toured cities in eight countries in Asia. (Photo by Yuichi Nitta)  

YUICHI NITTA, Nikkei staff writer

YANGON -- A Malaysian seller of affordable English books with a unique business model has branched out to Myanmar to capture demand among the country's legion of English-language learners.

Big Bad Wolf Books, in Shar Alam, outskirt of Kuala Lumpur, hosted a touring book fair in the Myanmar metropolis of Yangon for 11 days through Jan. 28. Guests young and old visited round-the-clock to browse through the million books written in English, arranged in dozens of shelves within an exhibition hall.

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