The Reading Barometer indicates an increase in all means. During confinement Spaniards broke their weekly reading record.

"In 2020 we could not imagine that we were going to end like this. We thought we were going to do much worse." The words of Patrici Tixis, president of the Spanish Federation of Publishers Guilds, recaps the results of the Barometer of Reading and Buying Habits of Books in Spain, prepared together with the Ministry of Culture and presented this morning in Madrid in the presence of Minister Uribes and the General Director of the Book, María José Gálvez. The year of the Coronavirus, which was adequate for publisher sales and good for bookstores, has accelerated the upward trend in reading of recent years. The companies of the largest cultural industry in Spain have survived with very few closures and, what is better, they have broadened their audience.

More frequent readers. Although the proportion of Spaniards who read books at least once a quarter, only grew a few tenths in 2020 (68.8%), there is a very encouraging result: the percentage of Spaniards who read every day has risen from 32.4% to 34.7% in 2020. If we also consider those who read at least once a week, the percentage is 52.7%.

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