Named as ‘an act of justice’ for the predominance of women among readers, La Lectora Futura is a web-based project designed to bring together fans of literature from Spain, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina.
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“Our aim is to be the center of the book world in the Spanish language,” says said Elena Bazán, account manager for the Mexico part of La Lectora Futura, an online book community, on its launch in Mexico City.
Bazán describes the project’s feminine title as “an act of justice.” She cites data that reveals women to be more avid readers of books than men, including a 2015 survey by Mexico’s statistics agencyINEGI. One assertion of that survey’s results has it that men prefer reading newspapers over books.
Such gender factors are mirrored in other countries, such as Spain and the United States. Spain’s center for reading promotion (CEPLI), affiliated to the Castilla-La Mancha University, along with the US National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), have found that, on average, women read more books.
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