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 18 of 2013 (week ending 5/5/2013).
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 18 of 2013 (week ending 5/5/2013).
The U.S. has now over 50 million people of Hispanic and after Mexico, it has the largest Spanish-speaking population in the world. In this article, Delfin Carbonell Basset posed the question: “Will Spanish survive as a language widely spoken by Latinos in the United States?”
The price Hispanic readers abroad expect to pay for content is much lower than what readers in the U.S. expect to pay, reports digitalbookworld.com, suggesting that publishers may need to adjust their expectations for profit margins.
Adan Griego, curator for Iberoamerican Collections at Stanford University Libraries, was at the Bogotá 2013 Book Fair. He shares with us his experiences, the publishers that called his attention, the offerings of ebooks and tell us why Gabriel García Márquez is still dominating Colombia’s literary scene.
The movie, based on Adelaida García Morales' novel, will be available at Días de Cine Reading Club until May 12th, 2013. This initiative is sponsored by the America Reads Spanish program and the American Library Association to promote literature and the Spanish language in American libraries and universities.
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 17 of 2013 (week ending 4/28/2013).
This new tool, called PreTEL, can help publishers to decide if a book is publishable or not. The researchers working on this project come from the GeNeura group (GranadaUniversity) and PRM Consultores S.C.A. (Grupo Trevenque).
Missouri Western State University's English, Foreign Languages and Journalism Department hosted “A Taste of Spain” event to help educate people on the Spanish culture, customs and country, reports the Griffon News, the university's student newspaper.