he Spanish book market is reporting revenues of €2.5 billion in 2021, a gain of 5.6 percent over 2020, but some softening in overseas trade.

Releasing its new 2021 data today (July 19), the Federación de Gremios de Editores de España (Federation of Publishers’ Guilds of Spain, FGEE) is reporting revenues of €2.5 billion in 2021 (US$2.56 billion), a gain of 5.6 percent over 2020.

Last year, the federation says, its book publishers sold a total 174 million print units, an increase of 5.9 percent over 2020’s total. In digital products, Spain recorded 13.49 million downloads, a gain of 1.7 percent over digital titles’ performance in 2020.

This welcome jump in sales in 2021 is the largest annual increase in turnover achieved in this century by the Spanish book market. It is better by 2.4 percent than the increase seen in 2020 over 2019. It also sets a strong, upbeat tone for the Guest of Honor Spain programming now in final preparation for Frankfurter Buchmesse (October 19 to 23).

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