When former journalists Fong Min Hun and Elaine Lau opened Lit Books in Kuala Lumpur in 2017, they fielded "a lot of skepticism" about the prospect of running a bricks-and-mortar bookshop. Critics speculated that it was a sunset industry, and that people were only interested in e-books now.
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Malaysia's bookshop boom: a bricks-and-mortar revival
Unconventional business models, pandemic-changed reading habits fuel upsurge
Perusing the shelves at a BookXcess store in Kuala Lumpur. (Photo by Paulius Staniunas)
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