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April 27, 2006: Book Lovers Mourn Changes in Indonesia Book Market
"In the old days, if you wanted to get your hands on a first edition of Syumanjaja's Aku, or copies of the works of Dickens or Camus, you would go to Kramat Kwitang in Central Jakarta."
"But market demand has changed. Very few people go to Kwitang now for secondhand books in good condition, they are mostly after cheap text books. "
