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  Why Spanish Publishing is the Next Digital Battleground

  1891 readersInternational digital players are targeting the 500 million strong Spanish-language market. It’s scary stuff for Spanish-language publishers, who need to prepare. Editorial by Javier Celay Javier Celaya A dramatic shift is happening in the Spanish-language publishing sector. In the last few months, the three largest publishing houses — Random House Mondadori, Grupo Planeta and Santillana — have taken

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  Digital Publishing coming to Spain

  2551 readers  Javier Celaya, vice president of the Spanish Digital Magazines Association, has an editorial in Publishing Perspectives that is well worth reading.  Here’s a snippet:: A dramatic shift is happening in the Spanish-language publishing sector. In the last few months, the three largest publishing houses — Random House Mondadori, Grupo Planeta and Santillana — have

• Bertelsmann Buys 100% of Random House Mondadori

  1024 readersFollowing the announcement of the proposed merger of Penguin and Random House, Bertelsmann has bought the its joint venture with Italy’s Mondadori. The move signals the company’s new priority on developing the Spanish-language markets in Latin America. The press release follows: Gütersloh/Barcelona, November 5, 2012 – Bertelsmann’s leading trade book publishing group Random House will now own

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  Bertelsmann Acquires 100% Stake in Random House Mondadori

  1783 readersBertelsmann, the corporate parent of Random House, has purchased a 100 percent stake in Random House Mondadori. Random House created the publishing house for Spain and Latin America in 2001, splitting the shares 50/50 with the Spanish publisher. Spanish antitrust authorities still need to approve the acquisition, and the name will be changed “in the near

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  Spain set to see increase in digital sales

  1217 readers From The Bookseller: The Spanish book trade is preparing for unexpectedly fast growth in digital sales, Liber, the international book fair for the Spanish speaking world has been told. Iría Álvarez, trade manager at Santillana, one of Spain’s largest publishers, told delegates at the show in Madrid yesterday (6th October): “With e-books expected to take 22% of

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  Spain set to see increase in digital sales

  797 readers From The Bookseller: The Spanish book trade is preparing for unexpectedly fast growth in digital sales, Liber, the international book fair for the Spanish speaking world has been told. Iría Álvarez, trade manager at Santillana, one of Spain’s largest publishers, told delegates at the show in Madrid yesterday (6th October): “With e-books expected to take 22% of

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  Amazon Coming to Spain Next Week – Kindle Store to follow?

  2153 readersGuess what? Next time you run with the bulls, you’ll be able to buy bandages afterward locally from Amazon. El Pais, a Spanish newspaper, is reporting that Amazon will launch Amazon.es next week. This is going to be Amazon’s 7th local website. According to sources, the new Amazon site is due to launch on 15 September,

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  The End of an Indie? Tusquets Sells 50% to Planeta

  1091 readersBy Julieta Lionetti Spain may have the Big Three, but it’s also the proud headquarters of two medium-sized publishing houses that are as central to the Spanish publishing landscape as Planeta, Santillana or Random House Mondadori. For the past four decades Anagrama and Tusquets have been the darlings of readers and literary critics, both for their

• 3M Cloud Library Unveils Better Tools, More Titles

  344 readers[Press Release]3M Cloud Library Unveils Better Tools, More Titles —- Catalog Acquisition Tool to be showcased at London Book Fair3M Library Systems announces the launch of a new Catalog Acquisition Tool (CAT) for the 3M Cloud Library, designed to give librarians more features to help manage content and to make the buying experience easier.Along with

• Amazon and the Art of Annoying Your Friends in Spain

  956 readersBy Julieta Lionetti Last month, Random House Mondadori announced the upcoming launch of their all-digital imprint RHMFlash, which will go live during the second half of April. Like Random House London’s Storycuts, the series takes stories out of their parent collections across dozens of lists and makes them available as singles or small bundles, along with