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Ingram to buy Perseus division in major publishing shake-up

Nashville-area publishing giant Ingram Content Group is set to buy the distribution business of Perseus Books Group, a New York-based independent publisher, in a deal that reshapes the local company's core business.

The power of the Spanish language in 12 bits of data

Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría (Deputy Prime Minister of Spain) expressed her pride in the fact that Spanish was the language spoken on Christopher Columbus’ caravels; the tongue in which Góngora y Quevedo fought their acerbic battle of wits; the parlance used by Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez in their debates.

Get to know this week's list of best selling titles in Spanish for week 8 ending on February 28th, 2016

Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS), present the free weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US Market for week 8 of 2016 (week ending 2/28/2016).

The novel La Casa de los náufragos (Ediciones Siruela) by Cuban writer Guillermo Rosales, is being adapted into a film.

On the 11th of February, filming began on a movie based on La Casa de los náufragos (The Halfway House), the best known novel by the Cuban writer Guillermo Rosales, which was published in 1987 and translated

On Spanish Poetry Publishers in the Digital Era

The Spanish publishing industry is facing radical changes in the digital era, but poetry is often overlooked in discussions about these changes. Has it been disregarded because it is a minor genre? What kind of experimentation is happening in Spanish poetry publishing today?

The Ten Best Historical Novels of 2015

Once more, we have made our own selection of the ten best historical novels of the year. This time we have taken into consideration, besides the opinions of our critics and collaborators, the votes of our readers.

Argentinian Graciela Mochkofsky named director of CUNY's new Spanish-language Master's in Journalism

It’s Graciela Mochkofsky’s first week on the job and she already has a full to-do list.The Argentinian journalist has been named director of the new Spanish-language journalism initiative at the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY).

Tusquets Brings Us "Ejercicios de Supervivencia" (Exercises of Survival), Jorge Semprún’s Posthumous Novel

Tusquets Brings Us "Ejercicios de Supervivencia" (Exercises of Survival), Jorge Semprún’s Posthumous Novel

Frank Miller is Guest of Honor at Barcelona's Salón del Cómic

American artist Frank Miller, considered one of the greatest artist in comic book history, will be the guest of honor at the 34th edition of the Barcelona Salón Internacional del Cómic (International Comic Book Salon), which will be held May 5-8, 2016, at the Fira Barcelona Montjuïc.

ANIMACÓMIC

More than 8,000 people have visited the 4th Edition of the Comics Festival in Málaga. The universe of comics is a sort of gravitational force that works as a binding core of very diverse worlds and people who have nothing in common.

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