Two Barcelona literary agents launch The Spanish Bookstage, a new online rights and licensing platform for Spanish-language book titles.

Two Spanish literary agents, Anna Ascolies and Martina Torrades, launched The Spanish Bookstage, an new platform that intends to the make the buying and selling of Spanish-language literary rights significantly easier. The new platform comes at a time when the Spanish publishing industry (both in Spain and Latin America) is gaining stronger visibility in the global marketplace. In 2014, some 79,000 new titles were published in Spain, with a further 194,000 in Latin America the previous year — meaning there is no shortage of books from which foreign language editors can plunder new talent.

According to the Instituto Cervantes report, El español: una lengua viva (Spanish, a live language), over 500 million people speak Spanish across the globe and it is the third most spoken mother tongue in the world following English and Mandarin Chinese.

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