Riera is recognized by Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports for the "high quality of her writings in Catalan and Spanish languages, which combine literary creation with research and divulgation, a multifaceted work with universal repercussion".
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!, 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.
The Chilean-American author’s novel ‘The Japanese Lover’ comes out in English in a few days.
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 platforms to buy or sell publishing rights online are even more present in today’s international marketplace.
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).
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.
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.
"El manipulador", book signing event on Friday October at 6 pm.
