Culture Vulture: In praise of the printer

A book store at the Singapore Writers Festival at the Arts House on Nov 12, 2017. PHOTO: ST FILE
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SINGAPORE - For decades now, people have been sounding the death knell for physical books.

As a rookie books reporter in the 2000s, I covered the rise of e-books, along with the predictions of print on pulp going the way of the dodo.

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