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 42 of 2013 (week ending 10/20/2013).

Under the motto “El español en el libro: del Atlántico al Mar del Sur” (The Spanish in the book: from the Atlantic to the southern oceans,) the event congregates professionals and experts from all Spanish-speaking countries and other parts of the world. The academic program is structured around four themes: "The book between the Atlantic and the Pacific,” “The Book Industry,” “Book, reading and education" and "The Book between creation and communication." The congress ends today.

The Spanish-speaking world is the battlefield where global giants of cultural distribution and the analog-digital entertainment maintain with the traditional publishing industry, in full and rapid change. It is the struggle for a market of nearly 500 million speakers with a high proportion of young and expanding educational structure. These are some of the warnings and concerns exposed at the 5th “Congreso Internacional de la Lengua.”

David Unger will launch his novel ¨Para mí, eres divina¨, on Wednesday, October 23. The author will do a reading in English, while Peruvian actress Gy Mirano will be reading the Spanish version.

With a public inauguration ceremony last week, Instituto Cervantes and Harvard University launched the center that aims to set international standards for the analysis of Spanish and all things Hispanic in the United States.

As the nation’s finest and largest literary gathering, Miami Book Fair International, gets closer – audiences are intrigued by this year’s diverse, relevant and thought-provoking program.

This well-known distributor of books in Spanish in the US, shares her impressions of Liber 2013, in anticipation of her upcoming book exhibit at the New York’s Instituto Cervantes on October 28th & 29th.

Today, Monday October 21 at 8 p.m. Montaner will present her book “Se alquila Casa Blanca” (White House for rent), a collection of stories about the White House; their special tenants; the history of the building; and the personal experiences she had from her job as a US correspondent in the last seven years. The event will take care in Books and Books in Coral Gables and the admission is free.

As part of its ongoing support of the propagation of library-based diversity research, the ALA Council Committee on Diversity and the ALA Office for Diversity recognize Montiel-Overall for her contributions to the profession and her promotion of diversity within it. She is an associate professor, School of Information Resources and Library Science, and affiliate professor, Mexican American Studies, College of Social and Behavioral Science, at University of Arizona.

Teresa Mlawer is one of the most recognized and respected women in the Hispanic publishing industry. A frequent presenter at global industry conferences and events, Teresa was recently chosen one of the “Top 50 People in Spanish-Language Publishing” by an international network of publishing professionals. For 31 years, Teresa has attended every Liber edition and was interviewed by ARS to talk about this past Liber and her new consulting activity.