The pandemic produced numerous challenges for book distributors, not the least of which was how to get much-needed books and supplies to students who, during lockdowns, had no access to school libraries.

This challenge was particularly acute for students who learn in Spanish.

. One solution was to provide digital-learning resources. Lectorum, the Spanish-language book distributor based in New Jersey, reacted quickly to the demand.

“We had met with Makemake, a young company from Colombia, during the previous Guadalajara Book Fair [FIL] in November 2019,” says Alex Correa, president and CEO of Lectorum. “The founder was a very young and enthusiastic entrepreneur, Catalina Holguin, who had previously developed an e-book platform for Colombia’s national library system. When customers started asking for e-books in spring 2020, this proved very fortuitous.”

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