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Santillana New Publishing Imprint is born: Loqueleo

The new children's imprint has been launched at FIL 2015 with the aim of reaching nearly 100 million students in Latin America and Spain across 22 countries.

Legacy of two book publishing giants recognized.

The International Guadalajara Book Fair honors the memory of literary agent Carmen Balcells and Planeta's President Jose Manuel Lara.

Sorry pilgrims, the Spanish beat you to the first Thanksgiving

Researchers claim the pilgrims weren’t the first to host a banquet in America. More than 50 years earlier, Spanish settlers landed in St. Augustine, Florida where they gave thanks and dined with natives.

Uber Español now Available in San Antonio

Uber has announces that it's now offering San Antonio its Uber Español service, which allows customers to select Spanish-speaking drivers when they're ordering up a ride. The service is available in a handful of cities, including San Diego, Chicago, Los Angeles and Phoenix.

Burlington, North Carolina’s first bilingual playschool starts Spanish education early

According to Jocelyn Safirt, one of the founders of the playschool, Holy Comforter, Harvey R. Newlin Elementary and other groups in the community had been talking about establishing a new playschool in the area for years but decided to open the bilingual school to address a growing need for multicultural and bilingual education in the area.

Scholarships to study Spanish.

The Spanish Language Foundation offers scholarship to students and teachers to learn Spanish.

Get to know this week's list of best selling titles in Spanish for week 47 ending on November 22nd., 2015.

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 46 of 2015 (week ending 11/15/2015).

San Antonio praised for bilingual education.

Harlandale's dual immersion program is one of a number of San Antonio bilingual education programs to be praised by Washington think-tank New America. Their latest report, Boomtown Kids, looks specifically at San Antonio as a model for the rest of the country to aspire to.

Spanish-language TV station says ‘hola’ to Hazleton, PA market.

Hazleton, the city’s first Spanish-language television station is on the air, with its reach extending far beyond the city.

Univision, The Atlantic To Launch Spanish-Language CityLab Latino.

Hoping to tap into the growing Latino media market, Univision Digital and The Atlantic announced Tuesday they would partner to launch CityLab Latino, a Spanish-language digital publication that draws its inspiration from The Atlantic's CityLab.com.

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