Trade publishing grew by nearly 7%, ebooks expanded nearly 45%, according to BookStats industry survey for 2012. This is U.S. publishing’s most comprehensive annual survey now available.

The study “Public Policy for the Emerging Population of Dual Language Learners,” prepared at the University of North Carolina’s Frank P. Graham Child Development Institute and funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is designed to be used by lawmakers to determine how to fund and assess Head Start, publicly funded preschool, literacy and cognitive development programs, reports The National Press Club.

Thanks to a grant awarded by the Texas Book Festival 2013, Jacksonville Library, in Texas, is going to expand and update its Spanish-language materials for adults, the Daily Progress reports.

The festival’s second edition, May 16-18, will showcase the work of 86 video artists from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America as well as Latinos living in New York.

The publisher includes more than 600 titles in its catalog. The books come from every Spanish-speaking country and are specially selected for the U.S. market.

Zed, a Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain-based mobile content, services and technology company has signed an agreement with 24symbols, a Spanish startup that enables users to read e-books from a wide variety of publishers in the cloud on tablets and smartphones without the need to download them, reports TNW.

Spanish Publishers announces the arrival to the United States of Spanish publisher Editorial Anagrama, one of the most prestigious Spanish-language publishers in the world.

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.