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Classics and other Pandemic Related Books

In these weeks of global crisis due to the coronavirus, sales have risen. Reviews of the classics and other books about pandemics and other disasters that have devastated the world have skyrocketed.

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Literary reviews contest in Instagram. Prizes to let winners buy in any bookstore.

The Jose Manuel Lara Foundation, in collaboration with CEGAL, will highlight a review each month during the Corona virus in Spain.

Reading rates increase during quarantine in Spain

Since the confinement started, the amount of readers increased from 50% to 54%, while total daily reading time has increased 71 minutes.

Alfonso Lopez Gradoli, a Mediterranean poet dies

His book, “El sabor del sol” (1968) (The Taste of the Sun), with an introduction written by Jose Hierro, was the first in the beautiful collection of Biblioteca Nueva (New Library) directed by Antonio Hernández.

This is what the Book Fair will be like: Desinfecting of booths twice a day and fever-testing measures.

The Madrid Book Fair strives to limit crowding by taking “extreme social distancing,” and a redesign of the fair in order to limit space. There are still five months before the October celebration of the Madrid Bookfair.

Bookstores are reopening, and it feels like a rebirth.

An appointment and strict sanitary meassures: A morning in Tipos Infames, in Madrid, on the first reopening day, after seven weeks of closure.

Study on reading habits during quarantine

Readers have increased their reading habits 63.8% during quarantine. This data has been gathered by an online survey done by ExLibric, a publishing company forming part of the IC Group.

Arce's Bulletin is now available, Jueves, April 30, 2020

The Association of Publishers of Cultural Magazines of Spain (ARCE) was established in 1983 at the initiative of the publishers of cultural magazines, with the purpose of pooling the necessary resources and instruments to promote these cultural projects,

More US schools teach in English and Spanish, but not enough to help Latino kids

Bilingual education programs can help children from all backgrounds become better students. Classes taught in both languages help students from various backgrounds, but many districts have fought to keep Spanish out of schools. Kristin Lam, Kristin Lam, and Erin Richards, Mar. 31, 2020

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