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The Havana International Book Fair (Feria Internacional del Libro de La Habana) starts today

The Havana International Book Fair is one of the highlights of the Cuban annual social calendar. First held in 1982, the fair is usually conducted in February and is spread across ten days.

Get to know this week's List for the week 5 ending on February 5th, 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 5 of 2017 (week ending 02/05/2017).

‘Leemos’ (We Read), a free digital platform for young readers.

On February 15th, at the auditorium of Espacio Fundación Telefónica, we will present ‘Leemos’ (WE Read), a new digital project for the promotion of reading, born of a desire to create a program for a real improvement of the reading comprehension of students.

El Paseo: a new publishing house - "Literary and independent", propose "an intellectual search".

David González Romero, former director of Berenice - the literary label of the Almuzara group, in which he discovered Chris Stewart or Max Brooks’ World War Z - has founded the publishing house El Paseo a "literary and independent"....

Anagrama opens comic book collection. It will begin, already in 2017, with Liniers and Javier Mariscal.

This new collection of comics in Anagrama joins some changes in the dynamics of the publishing house, caused by this new stage with the direction of Silvia Sesé and the administration of group Feltrinelli.

Antonio Iturbe wins the Premio Biblioteca Breve, worth 30,000 euros

“La casa del aire (A House in the Air), the winning novel, addresses the pioneering years of aviation.

Pilar Rahola wins the Ramon Llull Prize

“The journalist wins the most valuable award in Catalan literature with a novel about the Tragic Week: Rosa de cendra (Ash Rose).

Óscar Sáenz de Santamaría is the new general director of Culture and Book Industries in Spain

Óscar Sáenz de Santamaría Gómez-Mampaso will be the new the new general director of Culture and Book Industries, after the designation of José Pascual Marco as the new general director of Coordination of Common Policy and General Affairs of the European Union.

Instituto Cervantes at Harvard

A Celebration of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: texts and voices. Learn more about The Observatory upcoming events.

In 2016 81,391 books were published in Spain, of which 28% were in digital format

The publishing sector in Spain published 81,391 titles in 2016, according to data from the ISBN Agency, a figure that reflects a two-point rise of digital editions from last year, which in turn means that digital books were 28% of the total.

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