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Book industry in the Philippines then is a lethargic industry wherein Filipinos then are not much inclined on reading books and less intelligent on digesting the contents of a non-fictional books and most aspiring Filipino writers then have no financial capability to publish their own ideas or their own books because of the high cost of publishing one.

But nowadays this modern times, things have change, almost Filipinos today who would like to express and share their ideas and insights in a published book, could already able to write their own book. Thanks to the top leading low cost publishing program of the publishing company Central Books that give chance and opportunity for not financially rich aspiring Filipino writers in helping make their ideas published in a book form.

Not only this top Philippine publishing company make every ideas of aspiring Filipino writers published but thanks also to modern way of exchanging information we have today, that is the internet. Through the internet one can express and share his own ideas and insights freely and for free using web platforms like websites, blogs and forums.

Consequently, this big development on sharing ideas and insights to other people or to the public has given many a chance to be heard and to earn an income just by sharing their thoughts and ideas; and have started the annual book exhibit in the Philippines – the Manila International Book Fair (MIBF) – that helps more Filipino writers and Philippine publishing companies gain revenues from their published books.

Actually, the Manila International Book Fair (MIBF) has staged a recent book fair at SMX Convention Center Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay city which celebrates its 32nd year on its annual book exhibit.
According to the organizers of Manila International Book Fair (MIBF), the recent book fair is the largest book fair they ever staged so far. For it is the most varied gathering of collection of reading materials, more book launches and author signings as well as dialogues with readers and book related activities over 85,000 visitors who visit their current year book exhibit.

The Manila International Book Fair (MIBF) have become one of the major force why the Philippine book industry has flourished abundantly nowadays and have gained a larger readership for the published books of Filipino writers; since its first exhibit during 1980s at the Philcite grounds.

The annual book fair exhibit staged and organized by Manila International Book Fair (MIBF) is supported by the Book Development Association of the Philippines (BDAP), Philippine Booksellers Association, Inc, Asian Catholic Communicators, Inc,, and Overseas Publishers Representatives Association of the Philippines.

The Filipinos does not come out into the world just as they are now today. The Philippine is not a pure cultured country and neither the Filipinos’ blood that runs within their veins pure – for just like the intermarriage of different cultures into the fabric of Philippines culture so also the Filipino is a product of the marriage of different races who conquer the archipelago- nor their dominant beliefs and traditions today is a pure culture of their own.

For the Philippine culture is a mixed conglomeration of different culture taken from and influenced by those who conquest it since the beginning of its arousal from the beds of the Pacific Ocean.

Historically, it was said that the first inhabitants who settled on the Philippine archipelago are the Negritos and their fellow Australoid Sakai race who migrated from the South Asia during the Pleistocene Era who cross the soil bridge toward the Philippine archipelago whose culture become the first Philippine culture ever recorded in the Philippine history. However, their cultures have not become the dominant culture of Filipinos today but somehow have some traces of it like fishing. But the most influential race that migrated into the Philippine archipelago that marks a great impact on the Philippine culture today and that shape the Filipinos today are the Malay race.

The Malay race are said to be the second group who inhabited the country who come from Taiwan or Formosa then. They are called Austronesian or Malayo-Polynesian people. They have a more advance culture than the Negritos. For they are highly civilized race that has brought and shape the Philippine literature, Philippine art, and the Philippine government today altered only by the culture of the Spaniards and American conquerors who conquest the Philippines whom these conquerors have injected and intermixed on it. Thus, this conglomerated culture has now become the modern day culture of the Filipinos today.

One of the culture that mostly influence the Filipino today from both Malay, Spaniards and Americans, that affects predominantly the Philippine literature and Philippine art is Malay’s native and Islam beliefs and the Spaniards and Americans Roman Catholicism beliefs or the catholic Christianity. For most of the writings of the Filipino writers and authors today, have either a reflection or vestiges of their Islam and Malay philosophy or catholic Christian beliefs, as well as the art of their wrings and the designs of their books.

You could check them up their writings on their books available at the Philippine national Library or you could buy their books at National Bookstore Philippines number one source of Filipino books and writings for sale today. However, you could also see some writings of the ancient Filipino writers at the National Library which varies from epics, dramas, idioms (bugtong), riddles (palaisipan), talinghaga, sayings, hymns, salawikain, and many other similar writings. Some of this writings were even dramatized by some Filipino artist at the Cultural Center of the Philippines – the country’s culture and arts center.

Moreover, not only some Filipino artist dramatized these ancient Filipino writings but at their performance they also display the Filipino artistry in terms of their clothing designs which the ancient Filipinos used to wear, the way Filipino dance and sings, the rituals and ceremonies Filipino held, and other Filipino culture which Filipino inherited from the foreigners who conquest their country and as well as who form the way the Filipinos are now.