Today, Cervantes Institute's director, Víctor García de la Concha, will sign an agreement with Harvard University to open an observatory of the Spanish Language in the prestigious campus, reports El País.
Today, Cervantes Institute's director, Víctor García de la Concha, will sign an agreement with Harvard University to open an observatory of the Spanish Language in the prestigious campus, reports El País.
“La Gaceta” magazine, published by Fondo de Cultura Económica of Spain, features Javier Celaya's article on the future of bookstores. Celaya proposes twelve ideas to help bookstores understand the transformation process they have to go through to be updated, reports dosdoce.com.
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 15 of 2013 (week ending 4/14/2013).
Bookmasters will be the official U.S. distributor of the Spanish edition of Francisco, Nuevo Papa (Francis, New Pope), a biographical account of the life of Pope Francis, for one of the world’s most prominent Spanish-Catholic publishers, Edibesa.
Asociación de Revistas Culturales de España (ARCE) and Instituto de Comercio Exterior (ICEX) signed a collaboration agreement to promote the internationalization of cultural magazines, which runs until December 2016.
With growth as a goal, the Institute is strengthening its presence in the U.S. Part of this stragety is the agreement that its director, Víctor García de la Concha, has reached with Harvard University, reports El País.
The cultural magazines' newsletter features the latest publications on architecture, art, social sciences, movies, music, politics and many other subjects. It also includes interviews and interesting articles.
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.
