Spain’s federation of publishers’ guilds and ‘Foundation GSR’ announce a collaboration to cultivate and advance ‘higher-level’ reading.
‘Our Commitment to Reading as a Driving Force’
Y‘ll recall last week’s report on the 2024 Barometer of Reading and Book Purchasing Habits in Spain from the Federación de Gremios de Editores de España, , the Federation of Spanish Publishers’ Guilds (FGEE).
Today, we have news that FGEE and the Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez (GSR) in Madrid have made an agreement to collaborate on a framework “that seeks to consolidate the role of reading in society and promote innovation in the publishing sector, with special attention to the training of professionals and the international visibility of Spanish books.
The “Foundation GSR,” as many Publishing Perspectives readers know it, is the producing body of the annual Readmagine conference at the foundation’s Casa del Lector (Reader’s House) complex in the Spanish capital.
And it’s the leadership of both the publishers’ federation and the GSR who are behind the new effort to formalize and craft a dedicated construct in which to focus on developing and advancing reading. Luis González is the director-general of the Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez, an independent and nonprofit foundation created in 1981.
