In 2018, two firms in
Spain
Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...
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 headquartered in Madrid.
Editorial Planeta, founded in 1949, was the seed of Gru ...
and
Grupo Santillana. 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
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, where the German trading company of Ravensburg had an important base.... Publishing flourished in the early period at
Barcelona
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,
Burgos,
Zaragoza
Zaragoza (), traditionally known in English as Saragossa ( ), is the capital city of the province of Zaragoza and of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributaries, the ...
,
Seville
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, and the university towns of
Salamanca
Salamanca () is a Municipality of Spain, municipality and city in Spain, capital of the Province of Salamanca, province of the same name, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is located in the Campo Charro comarca, in the ...
and
Alcalá de Henares
Alcalá de Henares () is a Spanish municipality of the Community of Madrid. Housing is primarily located on the right (north) bank of the Henares River, Henares. , it has a population of 193,751, making it the region's third-most populated Municip ...
."
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 List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...
the 2001
World Book Capital.
Booksellers
Fairs
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Collections
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Biblioteca Colombina, Seville
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Burgos
See also
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Collection (publishing)
In the field of Publishing, book publishing, a collection or, more precisely, editorial collection (; ; ; ), is a set of books published by the same publisher, usually written by various authors, each book with its own Title (publishing), title, b ...
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Copyright law of Spain
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Legal deposit: Spain
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Book publishing companies of Spain (
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Spanish literature
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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?+
** 16th Century: Spain and Portugal, p. 412+
** 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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