Representing Bookwire customers in Spanish-language markets, this report finds strong performance of both ebooks and audiobooks.

By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson

here seem to be few book and publishing markets more frequently surveyed or otherwise reported on than the Spanish and/or Spanish-language book and publishing countries.

In a read-out released today (May 13) by Bookwire, the company announces, “We want to acknowledge our leadership” and “celebrate our consolidation as leaders in the Spanish digital sector.”

The company reports that its assessment covers both major and smaller independent publishing forces in the market. “For the first time,” the text reads, its information “represents almost the entire market, as it includes data from the universe of independent publishers as well as from the two major Spanish-language publishing groups, which have chosen Bookwire as their exclusive digital distributor: Grupo Planeta and Penguin Random House.”

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