With 35.9 percent of Spaniards saying they never or almost never read, Spain’s publishers want to ‘redouble our efforts’ to boost those numbers.

With reading rates growing five points above those of 2012—and holding stable after the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic era—Spain’s book publishing industry has turned in a strong financial report on 2023, albeit with what is described as “a significant percentage of non-readers.” Many of our readers, of course, will remember that Guest of Honor Spain in the 2022 Frankfurter Buchmesse was quite successful in showing the literate caliber of the Spanish population.

Provided to Publishing Perspectives by the Federación de Gremios de Editores de España (the Federation of Publishers’ Guilds of Spain, FGEE), the new report—once more produced for the federation by Conecta with sponsorship from CEDRO and support from Madrid’s ministry of culture—is led by a series of top-line findings worth enumerating:

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