Open Road Media is teaming up with Barcelona Digital Editions to form Ciudad de Libros/Open Road Español

The partnership, that marks Open Road’s first venture into the foreign-language e-book market, will release its debut list in the first quarter of 2014 and according to Open Road CEO Jane Friedman the goal is to do “a few hundred” titles in its first full year of operation.

“Titles will be drawn from Open Road's English-language catalogue, where world-Spanish language rights can be secured, and new titles in Spanish will be acquired by both partners specifically for Ciudad de Libros/Open Road Espanol,” Publishers Weekly reports. Read more here.

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