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 48 of 2016 (week ending 12/04/2016

Andana editorial is an exciting new publisher of high-quality picture books. Lectorum is overwhelmed for its addition to the impressive list of companies we distribute.

It was only fitting that over 30 SALALM librarians (and vendors) would be among the many "profesionales del libro" participating in what has become the most important book event in the Spanish-speaking world: the 30th Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL).

Total attendance at the recently concluded Guadalajara International Book Fair was about 813,000, a 3% increase over 2015. Figures include participation for both professional attendance and the general public.

About six-in-ten U.S. adult Hispanics (62%) speak English or are bilingual, according to an analysis of the Pew Research Center’s 2013 National Survey of Latinos.

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 47 of 2016 (week ending 11/27/2016

"I do not want to sound arrogant, but I need no advice to choose an author”
Literary agent Andrew Wylie, nicknamed The Jackal, chats with EL PAÍS from the Guadalajara Book Fair

The Prize is awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport to distinguish the complete literary work of a Spanish author whose work is considered as an integral part of the today’s Spanish literature written in any of the official languages of Spain. It is endowed with 40,000 euros.

“The Catalan writer, who also received the National Prize for Fiction for the same novel, won out over Sonia Hernández, Milena Busquets and Sara Mesa.

The market for e-books in Spain is relatively small (around 5% of sales if one only takes into account traditional publishers rather than self-published editions and forgets about......