Category: Ibero-America
Voxa’s Latin America Leap. A Romanian Start-Up Challenges the Global Streaming Giants
We are not here to explore. We are here to win market share.
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Colombia’s Publishing Industry in 2024: Growth, Diversity, and Resilience
In 2024, 17,989 new titles were published in Colombia, with 37.9 million copies sold, signalling a strong rebound in production and demand.
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Waking Up to a Global Market: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
Publishers must recognise that the digital age demands a reorganisation and reimagining of anachronistic frameworks created in another era for another era.Publishers must recognise that the digital age demands a reorganisation and reimagining of anachronistic frameworks created in another era for another era.
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Stolen 16th Century Manuscript Returned to Paraguay from New York
It’s not clear from reportage quite how the auction house got away with allowing this treasure to be sold at auction without checking its providence properly.
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Brazil – National Award for Children’s and Youth Literature for Quilombola and Roma Authors Opens for Entries
Thirty-six literary works by Quilombola and Roma authors will be awarded, providing an opportunity for these stories to reach a broad audience, whether they are newcomers or established writers.
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PARIX IA: The Largest AI-Related Event for Spanish-Language Publishing Markets. Time To Leave The Luddites In The Dust!
Watching the global AI scene evolve, it’s clear that many publishers and authors in the US, and even more in the UK, blindly fixating on these issues and unable/unwilling to see the bigger picture thanks to a handful of Luddite influencers, stand to be left behind as AI-assisted publishing moves forward without them.
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Cuba – South Africa is Guest of Honour at the Havana International Book Fair
Apartheid ended in the early 1990s, meaning that for younger TNPS readers, the names of Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela may be as meaningless as Jose Marti. A reminder of the importance of publishing in keeping history alive for future generations.
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Brazil – Rio International Publishers Summit Will Ice the Rio Biennial Cake This Year
Key topics will, you’ll be astounded to learn, include the impact of artificial intelligence on the publishing market.
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Costa Rica’s 3rd Bookafest set for Feb 1-2
Like all self-respecting book fairs and festivals nowadays, Bookafest has a professionals element ,“Publishers’ Forum,” where industry leaders can discuss trends and network.
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Costa Rica Literary Projects 2025
PublishNewsEs has the list of literary projects that will be supported by the Colegio de Costa Rica, part of the Costa Rican Ministry of Culture and Youth.
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Colombia – FILBAC, the International Book Fair of Barranquilla, the Atlantic and the Caribbean launches this week
What especially appealed to me is that FILBAC will be city-wide, not just at a single venue, integrating the entire city into its celebration.
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Mexico – Falling school text book orders precipitate a more than 20% book market crash
Mexico’s publishing industry highlights the risks of over-reliance on de facto government subsidies.
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