UNSILO announces a partnership with journal publisher BMJ, while Vivendi is approved to close its acquisition of Editis in France.
Why Spanish Publishing is the Next Digital Battleground
International digital players are targeting the 500-million strong Spanish-language market. Scary stuff for Spanish-language publishers, who need to prepare.
A Second Helping of Edouard Cointreau’s Paris Cookbook Fair
By Olivia Snaije Last year Edouard Cointreau, the force behind the Gourmand Cookbook Awards, extended his reach further into the professional culinary world and launched the Paris Cookbook Fair, a trade fair exclusively dedicated to books about food and drink. Yesterday, on a brilliantly sunny Sunday in Paris, the second edition of the Fair ended and while the final count …
Can Latin American Publishers Compete with Spain’s Big Three?
By Edward Nawotka In today’s lead article, Joaquín Díez-Candedo Flores, Director General of Mexican publishing house Fondo De Cultura Económica, spoke about a “cultural trade imbalance” between the US and Latin America. But an even stronger cultural trade imbalance exists between Spain and Latin America. The Spanish “Big Three” — Planeta, Random House Mondadori, and Santillana — dominate much of …
Grupo Planeta CEO Jesús Badenes: “We Must Not Undervalue Publishers.”
By Edward Nawotka Grupo Planeta CEO Jesús Badenes is not afraid of the internet: “It would be easy to reduce the internet to mere diffusion, but that is too easy. The e-book phenomenon is not a Trojan horse, but it must be approached with the highest degree of common sense.” Addressing the opening press conference at the Frankfurt Book Fair, …