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Since last week there is a new player in the e-Book business: BajaLibros.com. The new site allows Spanish-language readers to download more than 50,000 titles, including classics and bestsellers, HispanicBusiness.com reports.

The movie, based on Antonio Gala's novel, will be available at Días de Cine Reading Club until April 28th, 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.

The nation-wide celebration, April 14-20, is a time to highlight the value of libraries, librarians and library workers. Caroline Kennedy is the honorary chair of this event sponsored by American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country.

The organizers of the the largest Hispanic book fair in the U.S. poised to break attendance records. The event, May 17-19 in Los Angeles, California, will be a homage to Carlos Fuentes, world-renowned Mexican author, reports EON.

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 14 of 2013 (week ending 4/7/2013).

The humanist, writer and economist died Monday in Madrid. The Latin Times publishes five things to know about Sampedro, who once said “the oldest I get, the more revolucionary I am.”

Canal de Lector (reader's channel) is an effort of Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez to promote reading for the youth. The channel's goal is to serve as a communication channel for Spanish and American professionals that share the Spanish language at a time when it is crucial to put ideas together and build knowledge through debate.

In it's section “By the book”, the newspaper asked the Chilean author all kind of questions: from the last good book she read to what author, dead of alive, she would like to meet. Short questions and answers that revealed the personality, and a couple of intimate details, of Ms. Allende.

The panel is organized and moderated by Jo Labanyi (Director of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU) with the participation of academic specialists in Federico García Lorca’s work Antonio Monegal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Paul Julian Smith (CUNY Graduate Center), Andrés Soria (Universidad de Granada) and Jonathan Mayhew (University of Kansas).