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Ismael Cala and Amazon announce Second Literary Contest of Indie Authors in Spanish

Ismael Cala and Amazon announce the Second Literary Contest of Indie Authors in Spanish. Through this initiative, independent authors can publish their unpublished works on the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform.

The industry of the Spanish language and its main agents converge at the International Spanish Language Forum 2015

This unprecedented and unique initiative in the history of the Spanish language has been organised by IFEMA together with the Plataforma del Español. The aim of this financial forum is to boost Spanish as an asset for driving business.

What City Has More Bookstores Per Capita Than Any Other?

Buenos Aires, with 2.8 million people, has 734 bookstores, or 25 for every 100,000 people — the highest per capita in the world.

In the wake of the city’s highly successful annual book fair comes this piece of good news: According to a recent study by the World Cities Cultural Forum, Buenos Aires has more bookstores per capita than any other major city in the world.

Get to know this week's 20 best-selling titles in Spanish in the US according to Nielsen for week 19

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 19 of 2015 (week ending 5/10/2015).

LéaLA, the Los Angeles Spanish-language Book Fair opens doors tomorrow.

With the objective of expanding its programs by focusing on the diffusion of the culture and the arts of the Latino community in the City of Los Angeles, California, the University of Guadalajara has created one of the biggest and most ambitious projects around the promotion of the Spanish-language: LéaLA, the Los Angeles Spanish-language Book Fair.

"All the voices in Spanish"

Spanish language is the sum of all the different ways of speaking it.

Second Literary Contest honors Spanish-language ‘Indie” Authors

The award is for self-published works in Spanish for any independent author who publishes through Kindle Direct Publishing. Winning title will be published as printed book by La Esfera de los Libros and will be published in English by Amazon.

Spanish courses at Instituto Cervantes - Chicago

Registration for the Summer Spanish courses is now open.

Spanish immersion trips in New Mexico for school groups.

Instituto Cervantes in Albuquerque, New Mexico offers a variety of Spanish courses for individuals and groups including program with historical, cultural and linguistic aspects.

A signed first edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude was stolen at the Bogota Book Fair last week. Police recovered the book, but the thieves are still at large.

After a “labored pursuit,” according to the director of Colombia’s national police, Rodolfo Palomino, Colombian police recovered the book in downtown Bogota (Taken from Publishing Perspectives).

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