In an unusual approach to evaluating book publishing in Spain, the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation looks at both the industry’s ‘mystic’ artistic strengths and business realities.
As the new year batters us with mounting coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic threats, political upheaval, economic shudders, and stuffed email inboxes, the Madrid-based Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation has provided to us a copy of its singular Renodo report.
It proposes “a new way of explaining the value that book professionals and companies make to society”—something anyone who has fought for funding during pandemic is open to hearing—and “a strategy to enhance the strengths of the book sector facing the challenges from the growing dominance of digital platforms.”
We want to bring it to you today—with special thanks to the foundation director general Luis González for providing it to Publishing Perspectives—because it touches on some of the subtler points of consideration for world publishing at the top of this potentially pivotal year, not just on the obvious issues.
