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United States is the third largest market for digital books in Spanish

A study by the online distributor Libranda reveals that sales of works in Spanish in electronic format rose by 6.7% in 2016. Books enclose mysteries and adventures. In their pages pirate ships sail, spaceships fly, and new theories about our lives emerge.

Argentina, Country of Honor for Liber 2017

Madrid, May 17, de mayo de 2017.? Argentina has been chosen as the country of honor for the this year’s celebration of LIBER (International Book Fair), organized by IFEMA (International Madrid Fair) and promoted by FGEE (Federation of Spanish Publishing Guilds)

ICEX Spain, Exports, Investments organized the 1st Workshop on Children’s Books at the Spanish Cultural Center in Miami, USA.

With the name "Children's Books Day Workshop", thirteen Spanish publishers participated at this workshop, counting among the attendees with teachers from the districts of Miami Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, as well as with distributors of the children's publishing sector. This event was intended to bring children's books edited in Spain to a market in which the demand for these materials is increasing.

The biggest publishing houses celebrated the success of the Buenos Aires Book Fair

Sales are up 20%, especially in non-fiction and young adults, but the crisis hits the smaller companies.
The success of Penguin is not repeated in the smallest publishers, many of which had shared stands. But it is similar to that of the other editorial tank, Grupo Planeta.

Get to know this week's List for the week 19 ending on May 14th, 2017

Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS), present the free weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US market for week 19 of 2017 (week ending 5/14/2017).

"Despierta con Cala," the new book by Ismael Cala, is the leading best-selling book on psychology and counseling in Spanish on Amazon

MIAMI, May 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- "Despierta con Cala," (Wake Up With Cala), the new book on life strategy by international conference presenter and speaker, Ismael Cala, climbed to the top of the rankings on Amazon, in the category of books on psychology and counseling in the Spanish language. It is also among the 20 best-selling books in Spanish.

Editorial Dos Bigotes Presents "El Amante Alemán" (The German Lover) by Julián Martínez Gómez

In 2014, Julio returns to Cuba after spending five years away from his country. On his return flight to Madrid he meets a young attractive German called Sebastián. And this is where everything begins and is reborn, his story and the stories that had been hidden for years.

HACU's 2017 Annual Conference Agenda at a glance

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) was established in 1986 with a founding membership of eighteen institutions. Because of HACU’s exemplary leadership on behalf of the nation’s youngest and fastest-growing population, the Association rapidly grew in numbers and national impact.

New editors at Libros del Lince and Ara Llibres

The recent publishing imprint acquired by Malpaso, Libros del Lince, has a new editor. Mireia Lite (Barcelona, 1982) has been an editor of Catalan language imprints since 2015, at Ara Llibres and Amsterdam.

One hundred activities to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Juan Rulfo’s birth in Mexico

The one hundredth anniversary of any celebrated author’s birth does not come along too often for a country. For that reason, Mexico is pulling out all the stops for the centenary of Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) ...

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