Back in 1989, Latin American Book Source, Inc started distributing books in Spanish in the US. Since then, it had expanded its services from academic university libraries to public libraries. In 2007 the company started supplying books in Spanish to amazon.com. Its CEO and founder Edgardo Moctezuma talked to ARS about the company, its focus, the market, and the future of digital and print-on-demand books.
Can you tell us about the distribution focus of Latin American Book Source?
We do not specialize in any one area of books in Spanish. We deal with high-end academic titles as well as the more popular and accessible romance novels and books for children. The Internet has blotted out the lines between types of books. In spite of the intrinsic value a specific title may have, the internet has defined it first as a product. And we deal with as many as we can.