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  Brown Library fortifies Latin American collaborative venture

  1128 readers From the University of Texas at Austin: A project aimed at building a major research tool for the global study of Latin America at The University of Texas at Austin has just gotten a significant new academic partner. The John Carter Brown Library (JCBL) at Brown University will join the Primeros Libros project, which strives

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  Mexico’s Librerías Gandhi’s Ambitious, Aggressive Int’l E-book Expansion

  1427 readersLibrerías Gandhi plans to lure buyers in the Mexico, Spain, Argentina and the US with unique e-books from independent Latin American publishers. By Julieta Lionetti In 1551, 12 years after Olaus Magnus designed his famous Carta Marina, Antonio de Espinosa — unknown to the World but adored in Mexico — cut the first original printing typefaces

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  Israel to Star as Guest of Honor at FIL Guadalajara 2013

  1161 readersby Julieta Lionetti The Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) will host Israel as guest of honor in 2013, providing a platform for Israeli writers –both Hebrew and Arabic speaking– to be better known in the region. Mexico also stressed its wish to strengthen cultural ties with Israel. During the announcement, made on Wednesday, October 2 in Mexico

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  Bogota Book Fair Brings in 415,000 Visitors, $20m in Sales

  789 readersBy Julieta Lionetti Few cities in Latin America are more dissimilar than Bogota and Buenos Aires. Bookishly speaking, try to imagine them as the urbanite overgrowths of the baroque joy of Garcia Marquez and the astonishing gravitas of Borges, respectively. In April 2012, both towns opened their international book fairs within 24 hours — and displayed

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  Internet, Piracy, Indifference Kill 25% of Xalapa’s Bookstores

  1318 readersBy Julieta Lionetti MEXICO: Xalapa, known as “the Athens of Veracruz,” has seen nine of its bookstores close their doors in the last three years. The city, famous for its university and for having the biggest collection of Diego Rivera paintings in the entirety of Mexico, is at the center of a maelstrom which has destroyed

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  Why Mexico is Leading the Way in Latin America’s Digital Transition

  1292 readersBy Julieta Lionetti Digital publishing is gaining an ever-greater foothold in Latin America and, despite its lag in both reading rates and digitization of content, Mexico is leading the way. This week through Friday, Mexico City is hosting the Electronic Book International Symposium, which has drawn an impressive roster of speakers and presenters from across the

• Will Apple Have a First Mover Advantage in Latin America?

  952 readersBy Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief Today’s feature story reveals that Apple is rushing to launch it iBookstore in Latin America, making it the first of the large international e-book players to gain a foothold in the region. It’s no secret that all the major players, including Goole, Amazon, Kobo and even Copia, have plans for e-books in

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  What’s Going on in the Mexican E-Book Market?

  1088 readersSo much of the “future of publishing” and “future of ebooks” discussion seems to me, as a long-time resident of the third world, to have a US/UK slant that might be valid and progressive, but can ignore unsung realities in other parts of the world, where reading and “books” and publishing can mean different things. Since

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  University of Rochester students prefer paper textbooks

  1832 readers From the University of Rochester’s Campus Times: … The UR bookstore boasts a new e-reader station where students can explore versions of Barnes and Nobles’ own e-reader, the Nook.  Furthermore, the station highlights new, free software available online that allows students to easily access material from e-Textbook purchases. e-Textbooks have been available at

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  Chronicling America passes 4 million digitizes pages online

  1051 readers Kudos to all involved in this important and useful project. From the Chronicling America Web Site: Last week, the Library of Congress updated the Chronicling America Web site with more than 190,000 additional newspaper pages in various titles. The site now provides access to more than 4.1 million searchable newspaper pages from 581 newspaper titles, published in