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Spanish, the most popular foreign language at West Chicago school districts.

More than half of area high school students who take a world language class choose Spanish, with French being the second most popular language to study.

Epic! Launches Spanish and audiobook titles.

Epic!, the leading children's eBook subscription service, announced that more than 10 million books have been read on Epic!'s platform. The company also announced the launch of its first non-English language content, adding over 500 Spanish and bilingual Spanish/English books to its library. 

New novel by Chilean writer Isabel Allende releases in English language.

The Chilean-American author’s novel ‘The Japanese Lover’ comes out in English in a few days.

ODILO to power? nationwide digital library in Spain.

ODILO has been awarded a contract with the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sports, to bring digital content to the entire network of public libraries in Spain. Over 15 million library card holders will benefit and enjoy digital content through eBiblio (powered by OdiloTK, a complete digital asset lending and management end-user platform).

The Spanish Bookstage: boom of publishing right platforms all over the world.

The platforms to buy or sell publishing rights online are even more present in today’s international marketplace.

Get to know this week's list of best selling titles in Spanish for week 43 ending on October 25th, 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 43 of 2015 (week ending 10/25/2015).

Beek, a social media start-up, for lovers of books in Spanish

According to consumer research, 70 percent of people trust brand recommendations from their friends. The same can be said for books too. How many times have we picked up a book — either at the library, book store or online — based on how well someone we knew said they enjoyed it? It was a behavior that Mexicana Pamela Valdés soon realized after she created a Facebook fan page for lovers of books in Spanish, called Beek. When after a few months, she registered over 23,000 fans, she knew she was on to something.

Don Antonio María Ávila, shares highlights about Liber 2015 held in Madrid recently.

America Reads Spanish interviewed Don Antonio María Ávila, executive director of the Federation of Publishers' Guilds of Spain (Federación de Gremios de Editores de España, FGEE) about Liber 2015, recently held in Madrid.

Join Guatemalan writer David Unger at one of McNally Jackson's key cultural events.

"El manipulador", book signing event on Friday October at 6 pm.

400 years later, new English edition of "World's Best" Book, "Don Quixote"

Four centuries after Miguel de Cervantes killed off Spain's most famous knight, Don Quixote rides from his grave again in a new commemorative edition of the classic novel—released on Oct. 6 by Restless Books—to remind modern readers that everyone has an important story to tell.

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