Download or read book Books Without Borders, Volume 2 written by Robert Fraser and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concentrates on one of the world's oldest, and most buoyant, book cultures: South Asia. It examines the transition from manuscript to hand press, orality and performance, scripts and nationalism, libraries and copyright, and the recent international vogue for Europhone writers from the region.