In 2018, two firms in
Spain
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ranked among the world's biggest
publishers of books in terms of revenue:
Grupo Planeta
Planeta Corporación, S.R.L., doing business as Grupo Planeta (), is a Spanish mass media conglomerate operating in Spain, Portugal, France and Latin America. It is the world's leading Spanish-language book publisher.
Editorial Planeta, founded in ...
and
Grupo Santillana
Grupo Santillana, formerly Santillana Ediciones Generales, is a Spanish publisher founded in 1959 by Jesús de Polanco and Francisco Pérez González.
From 2008 and due to the high debts of the group PRISA, Santillana made disinvestments to guid ...
. In 2013, there were 524,213 titles
in print in Spain, including 76,434 new titles.
History
"The first Spanish
press was set up in 1473 at
Valencia
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...
, where the German trading company of Ravensburg had an important base.... Publishing flourished in the early period at
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...
,
Burgos
Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Burgos.
Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of ...
,
Zaragoza
Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...
,
Seville
Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...
, and the university towns of
Salamanca
Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Herit ...
and
Alcalá de Henares."
The Instituto Nacional del Libro Español (National Book Institute) formed in 1941.
As of 2004 Spain had some 2,000+ book publishers in the private sector, including , and
Prisa. As of 2013 there were 809 publishing enterprises.
The
designated
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...
the 2001
World Book Capital
The World Book Capital (WBC) is an initiative of UNESCO which recognises cities for promoting books and fostering reading for a year starting on April 23rd, World Book and Copyright Day. Cities designated as UNESCO World Book Capital carry out act ...
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Booksellers
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Biblioteca Colombina, Seville
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Burgos
Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Burgos.
Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of ...
See also
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Collection (publishing)
In the field of book publishing, a collection or, more precisely, editorial collection (french: collection éditoriale; es, colección editorial; it, collana editoriale; pt, coleção de livros, translation=collection of books), is a set of boo ...
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Copyright law of Spain
Spanish copyright law governs copyright ( es, derechos de autor), that is the rights of authors of literary, artistic or scientific works, in Spain. It was first instituted by the Law of 10 January 1879, and, in its origins, was influenced by ...
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Legal deposit: Spain
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Book publishing companies of Spain (
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Spanish literature
Spanish literature generally refers to literature ( Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain. Its development coincides and frequently intersects wi ...
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Media of Spain
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Spanish children's books
* University College Dublin's
Iberian Books project (est. 2007)
Notes
References
Bibliography
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* V. F. Goldsmith, A Short Title Catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese Books 1601-1700 in the Library of the British Museum. 1974
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** Printing in Spain and Portugal before 1501, p. 359?+
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** 17th Century: Spain, p. 441+
** 18th Century: Spain and Portugal, p. 471+
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External links
Federación de Gremios de Editores de España(publisher association)
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