Books in Spain
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{{Culture of Spain}}
In 2018, two firms in Spain ranked among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Grupo Planeta and Grupo Santillana.{{citation |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20180917/78036-pearson-is-still-the-world-s-largest-publisher.html |title= The World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2018 |date= 14 September 2018 |work=Publishers Weekly |location=US |volume=265 |number= 38 }}{{refn|group=nb|The same two also topped the list in 2016 in 2017.{{citation |work=Publishers Weekly |location=US |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-book-news/article/71268-the-world-s-52-largest-book-publishers-2016.html |title=World's 52 Largest Book Publishers, 2016 |date= 26 August 2016}}{{citation |work=Publishers Weekly |location=US |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-book-news/article/74505-the-world-s-50-largest-publishers-2017.html |title=World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2017 |date= 25 August 2017}}}} In 2013, there were 524,213 titles in print in Spain, including 76,434 new titles.{{citation |url=https://www.internationalpublishers.org/images/reports/2014/ipa-country-report-spain-book-market.pdf |title=Spanish book market data |work=IPA Country Report |publisher=International Publishers Association |author=Federación de Gremios de Editores de España |year=2014 }}
History
{{see also|Global spread of the printing press#Spain}}
"The first Spanish press was set up in 1473 at Valencia, where the German trading company of Ravensburg had an important base.... Publishing flourished in the early period at Barcelona, Burgos, Zaragoza, Seville, and the university towns of Salamanca and Alcalá de Henares."{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Britannica.com |url= https://www.britannica.com/topic/publishing |title=History of Publishing |access-date= 20 November 2017 }} The Instituto Nacional del Libro Español (National Book Institute) formed in 1941.{{cite web |url=http://datos.bne.es/entidad/XX141541.html |title=Instituto Nacional del Libro Español |language=es |work=Datos.bne.es |publisher= Biblioteca Nacional de España |access-date= 20 November 2017 }} As of 2004 Spain had some 2,000+ book publishers in the private sector, including {{illm|Prensa Española|es}}, and Prisa.{{sfn|De Mateo|2004}} As of 2013 there were 809 publishing enterprises.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization designated Madrid the 2001 World Book Capital.
Booksellers
{{further ill|Bookstores in Spain|es|Categoría:Librerías de España}}
Fairs
- {{illm|Feria del Libro de Albacete|es}}
- {{illm|Feria del libro y del disco vasco de Durango|es}}
- {{illm|Feria del Libro de Madrid|es}}
- {{illm|Feria de Otoño del Libro Viejo y Antiguo de Madrid|es}}
- {{illm|Feria del Libro Antiguo y de Ocasión de Madrid|es}}
- {{illm|Feria del libro de Valencia|es}}
Collections
{{See also|Category:Libraries in Spain|Category:Spanish bibliophiles}}
{{further ill|Libraries in Spain|es|Categoría:Bibliófilos de España}}
- Biblioteca Colombina, Seville
- {{illm|Museo del Libro Fadrique de Basilea|es}}, in Burgos
See also
{{Portal|Books|Spain}}
{{Literature of Spain}}
- Collection (publishing)
- Copyright law of Spain
- Legal deposit: Spain
- Book publishing companies of Spain (es)
- Spanish literature
- Media of Spain
- {{illm|Printing in Spain|es|Imprenta en España}}
- {{illm|Printing in Burgos|es|Imprenta en Burgos}}
- {{illm|Printing in Segovia|es|Imprenta en Segovia}}
- {{illm|Printing in Seville|es|Imprenta en Sevilla}}
- {{illm|Printing in Valencia|es|Imprenta en Valencia}}
- Spanish children's books
- University College Dublin's Iberian Books project (est. 2007)
Notes
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References
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Bibliography
;in English
- {{cite book |title=List of Bibliographical Works in the Reading Room of the British Museum |oclc= 3816244 |location=London |edition=2nd |editor1= G.W. Porter |editor2= G.K. Fortescue |year= 1889
|chapter= Bibliographies of Countries: Spain
|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/listofbibliogra00brit#page/n53/mode/2up
|via= Internet Archive
}}
- {{cite book |title=Early Printers of Spain and Portugal |author=Konrad Haebler |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029499021 |publisher= Chiswick Press for the Bibliographical Society |series=Illustrated Monographs |number= 4 |year= 1897
|author-link=Konrad Haebler }}
- {{cite book |title= Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum |url= https://archive.org/details/b29003611_0004 |author= Robert Proctor |location=London |publisher= Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company |oclc=6438080 |year= 1898
|chapter= Books Printed From Types: Spain |pages= 698+
|via= HathiTrust
|author-link= Robert Proctor (bibliographer) |hdl= 2027/uc1.c3450632 }}
- {{cite journal |author=Henry Thomas |title= Output of Spanish Books in the Sixteenth Century |journal= The Library |issn=0024-2160 |publisher=Oxford University Press, for the Bibliographical Society |volume=1, 4th series |number=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=og7DAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA69 |year=1920
}} [https://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-no96043845]
- {{cite journal |title= Earliest Books Printed in Spain |author= Laurence Witten |journal= Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America |volume=53 |issue= 2 |pages= 91–113 |jstor=24299724 |year= 1959
|author-link= Laurence Claiborne Witten II |doi= 10.1086/pbsa.53.2.24299724 |s2cid= 163403969 }}
- {{cite book |author=Frederick John Norton |author-link=:de:Frederick John Norton |title= Printing in Spain 1501-1520 |oclc=58905805 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vOY-btAmNokC |year= 1966
|isbn=9780521131186 }}
- {{citation |journal=New York Review of Books |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1969/07/10/publishing-in-spain/ |title=Publishing in Spain |author=Harry Braverman |display-authors=etal |date=10 July 1969
|volume=13 |issue=1 |author-link=Harry Braverman }}
- V. F. Goldsmith, A Short Title Catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese Books 1601-1700 in the Library of the British Museum. 1974
- {{cite journal |author= D. W. Cruickshank |title=Some Aspects of Spanish Book-Production in the Golden Age |journal= The Library |issn=0024-2160 |volume=31, 5th series |year =1976
}}
- {{citation |work=British Library Journal |location=UK |issn=1478-0259 |url= http://www.bl.uk/eblj/1976articles/articles.html |year= 1976
|title= More light on sixteenth-century printing at Salamanca
|author= Dennis E. Rhodes
}} {{free access}}
- {{cite journal |title='Literature' and the Book Trade in Golden-Age Spain |author= D. W. Cruickshank |journal= Modern Language Review |volume=73 |issue= 4 |pages= 799–824 |doi= 10.2307/3727595 |year=1978
|jstor= 3727595 }} [https://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n85078810]
- {{cite book|editor=Allen Kent |title=Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science |volume=23 |publisher=Marcel Dekker |isbn=978-0-8247-2023-0 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=tmnVublw2pwC |display-editors=etal |year= 1978
|chapter=Printers and Printing
|title-link=Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science }}
- 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+
- {{cite journal |title=Spanish Printers and the Classics: 1482-1599 |author=Theodore S. Beardsley Jr. |journal= Hispanic Review |volume=47 |issue=1 |pages=25–35 |doi= 10.2307/472922 |year= 1979
|jstor=472922 }}
- {{cite journal |author=Keith Whinnom |author-link=:es:Keith Whinnom |title= Problem of the 'Best-Seller' in Spanish Golden-Age Literature |journal= Bulletin of Hispanic Studies |year=1980
}}
- {{cite book|editor=Germán Bleiberg |editor-link=:es:Germán Bleiberg |display-editors=etal |title=Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dHnf68YaK8wC&pg=PA1294|publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-28732-9 |year=1993
|chapter=Printing in Spain |page=1316+
|author= Catherine Swietlicki
}}
- {{cite book |title= Europa World Year Book 2004 |isbn=1857432533 |publisher= Europa Publications |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP_-8rXzQs8C |year=2004
|chapter= Spain: Directory: Publishers |page=3909+
}}
- {{cite book|editor1=Euromedia Research Group |editor2=Mary Kelly |display-authors=etal |title= Media in Europe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_KRfXsBUBeAC|publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-0-7619-4132-3 |edition=3rd |year=2004
|chapter= Spain: Book Publishing
|author= Rosario de Mateo
|page= 228
|ref= {{harvid|De Mateo|2004}}
}}
- {{cite book|editor=Alexander Samuel Wilkinson |title=Iberian Books |publisher=Brill |oclc=948629100
}} 2010-
- {{cite book|editor1=Michael F. Suarez |editor2=H. R. Woudhuysen |title=The Book: A Global History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sbacAQAAQBAJ |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn= 978-0-19-967941-6 |year= 2013
|chapter= Iberian Peninsula |pages=406–419
|author= Maria Luisa López-Vidriero
}}
- {{cite book |title=Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe: A Contribution to the History of Printing and the Book Trade in Small European and Spanish Cities |editor=Benito Rial Costas |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004235748 |year=2013
}}
- {{cite journal |author=Antonio Cordón-García José |display-authors=etal |title=E-Book publishing in Spain: The paradoxes of a dual model |journal= Electronic Library |issn=0264-0473 |volume= 32 |doi=10.1108/EL-12-2012-0155 |hdl=10366/129764 |year= 2014
|hdl-access=free }}
- {{cite book |title=A Maturing Market: The Iberian Book World in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century |editor1=Alexander S. Wilkinson |editor2=Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo |publisher=Brill |isbn= 9789004340374 |year=2017
}}
;in Spanish
- {{cite book |title=Tipografia española, ó Historia de la introduccion, propagacion y progresos del arte de la imprenta en España |trans-title=Spanish typography, or history of the introduction, propagation and progress of the art of printing in Spain |author=Francisco Méndez |author-link=:es:Francisco Méndez (religioso) |editor=Dionisio Hidalgo |editor-link=:es:Dionisio Hidalgo |location=Madrid |url=https://archive.org/details/tipografiaespao00hidagoog |language=es |year= 1861}}
- {{cite book |author=Cristóbal Pérez Pastor |title= Bibliografia madrilena del siglo XVI |language=es |year= 1891–1907|author-link= Cristóbal Pérez Pastor }}
- {{cite book |title=Bibliografía Ibérica del Siglo XV: enumeración de todos los libros impresos en España y Portugal hasta el año de 1500 |trans-title=Iberian Bibliography of the 15th Century: list of all printed books in Spain and Portugal until the year 1500 |author= Konrad Haebler |publisher= Nijhoff |url= https://archive.org/details/bibliografaib00haebuoft |language=es |year=1903}}
- {{citation |title=Bibliografía general española e hispano-americana |oclc=1112967 |language=es |year=1923–1942 }}
- {{citation |title= El libro espanol |oclc=243469877 |publisher= Instituto Nacional del Libro Español |location=Madrid |language=es }} 1958-
- {{cite book |author=Fernando Cendán Pazos |title=Historia del derecho español de prensa e imprenta (1502-1966) |trans-title= History of the Spanish press and publications law |location=Madrid |isbn=8427611862 |language=es |year= 1974}}
;in other languages
- {{cite book|author= Raimundo Diosdado Caballero |title= De prima typographiae hispanicae aetate specimen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z_wUAAAAQAAJ |language=la |publisher= Antonium Fulgonium |location=Rome |year= 1793
|author-link= Raimundo Diosdado Caballero }} [http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-no2014008010]
External links
{{commons category|Books from Spain}}
- [http://federacioneditores.org Federación de Gremios de Editores de España] (publisher association)
- {{citation |url= http://data.cerl.org/istc/_search?query=place:es |title= (Place:ES) |work=Incunabula Short Title Catalogue: the International Database of 15th-century European Printing |publisher=British Library }} (Bibliography of editions published in Spain; also browsable by [http://data.cerl.org/istc/_index/imprintplace town])
- {{cite web |url= https://www.ifla.org/node/2216 |work= Ifla.org |publisher=International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions |location=The Hague |title= National Bibliographic Register: Spain }}
- {{cite web |work=WorldCat |publisher=OCLC |title=(su:Book industries and trade -- Spain) |url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=su%3ABook+industries+and+trade+Spain&qt=results_page |location=US }} (Bibliography)
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