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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.

El País Recommends Seven books this week

Luis Landero, Luis Antonio de Villena y Atticus Lish, among distinguished authors

Justyna Rzewuska is now in charge of ‘Oficina de Ildefonso Falcones’

The former rights manager of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial is working exclusively on the author’s work. Los Herederos de la tierra is on top bestsellers lists since its publication.

Boston’s Only Spanish Language Used Bookstore, Libreria Donceles, Opens at Urbano Project in JP

Urbano Project will present Librería Donceles, a socially-engaged art project consisting of an itinerant bookstore of more than 10,000 used books in Spanish.

GOBI® Library Solutions from EBSCO Partners with Digitalia Hispanica to Provide Spanish E-Book Content through GOBI

Nearly 20,000 Spanish E-books in the Social Sciences and Latin American Literature Now Available in GOBI Acquisitions Too. A new partnership between GOBI® Library Solutions from EBSCO (GOBI Library Solutions) and Digitalia Hispanica (Digitalia) is making thousands of Spanish-language e-books available in GOBI®,......

OverDrive Pushes into Spanish

Based in Cleveland, Ohio, OverDrive has worked exclusively to distribute digital content since 1986, becoming one of the first companies to be involved in supplying digital content to libraries, first with audio and then with e-books.

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