Analysis of the Spanish-language publishing market in the United States, Report by María Fernández Moya.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution and future perspectives of the Spanish-speaking market in the United States with regard topublishing,one of the most important cultural industries.

The United States is among the countries with the greatest number of Spanish speakers. Along with other considerations, the sixty million Hispanics residing in the country constitute an attractive market for a variety of industries, including © María Fernández MoyaThe United States, a promising market for Spanish-language publishingInformes del Observatorio / ObservatorioReports. 023-09/2016ENISSN: 2373-874X (online) doi: 10.15427/OR023-09/2016ENCervantes Institute at FAS -Harvard University © CervantesInstitute atthe Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University 2those which can be denominated as cultural. The aim of this paper is precisely to analyze the evolution and future perspectives of the Spanish-speaking market in the United States with regard to one of the most important cultural industries; i.e. publishing.The structure followed here is a simple one. The first two sections trace the historical evolution of the Spanish-language publishing market in the US since the 19thcentury. The third deals with its most recent phase, that of the great change undergone by this market in the final years of the 20thcentury and the first decades of the 21st.

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