He later repeated the charge, with a swipe at the Malays themselves for being overly fatalistic, in his book The Malay Dilemma.

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Book publishers charge extra for readers who are either rich or impatient by releasing the hardcover first, the paperback later.

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"They can buy, sell, share or put a call virtually to any stock, bond or currency in the world, they can do it from their basement, and they can do it with information that in the past brokers would only give to their clients for a charge, " says Thomas L Friedman, of the New York Times, author of a book on globalisation.

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Although it was impossible for him to distribute hard copies inside the country, Hamid made the book available online free of charge.

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