The editorial world has reduced their customary downpour of new releases. Are we facing a new turn in the industry?
Publish less books, prolong shelf life in bookstores, better selection of new releases and keep a low risk margin. Everyone in the Spanish editorial market has a clear image of what the perfect situation would be, but, inertia has maintained a high number of published works every year, which pass fleetingly through bookshelves to then become irrelevant.
During the last decade the amount of titles has been going down from 115,000 in 2010 to less than 80,000 in 2014, though the end of the economic crisis launched close to 90,000 new volumes in 2017. The crisis prompted by the Coronavirus, which has hit the cultural world espeially hard, could be a way to restart the book industry with a new attitude, if it is really necessary. Will our reading habits change? In what way will it change the publishing dynamics?.
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