The impact of digital, the population’s loss of ‘cultural habits’ that support reading, and challenges to the supply chain: Madrid’s José Manuel Anta on the Spanish publishing market’s challenges.
‘Challenges to the Supply Chain’
Having heard yesterday from Spain’s Luis Solano of Libros del Asteroid, we turn today to one of his colleagues.
José Manuel Anta, the founding editor of the Spanish Federation of Book, Print Media and Digital Contents Distributors (FANDE) and the International Publishing Distribution Association (IPDA), is, like Solano, speaking on October 18 at The Markets: Global Publishing Summit as a player in the Spanish marketplace.
We asked Manuel Anta to start by naming three areas of concern in the Spanish market.
José Manuel Anta. “I think the Spanish book market nowadays,” he tells Publishing Perspectives, “is facing different challenges. In some cases [they are] very similar to other international markets. But with the deep economic crisis we’ve suffered since 2008, book consumption has has reduced turnover by some 35 percent.
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