Citing a 110-percent jump in digital book sales in Latin America and 41 percent digital growth in Spain, a new report sees digital as a key to the Spanish markets’ turnaround.
A new report indicates that in 2016, Latin American publishers saw an upturn of digital sales growth, year over year, of 110 percent–and their Spanish counterparts saw a 41-percent jump.
This report, the Spanish Markets Digital Evolution Report 2017, becomes available for download today (May 30) and is being released by the Madrid-based consultancy Dosdoce.com and ebook distribution platform Bookwire.
In a signal paragraph from the paper’s executive summary, we read, “The soaring number of new ebooks published in the Spanish markets (more than 50,000 in 2016), the growing importance of digital reading in the region, and the increasing role of the Internet as a distribution and marketing tool for print books, as well as ebooks and audiobooks, all lead to the assumption that the rapid evolution of the digital market will be reality in most Latin American countries by 2020.”
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