Books in Spain

In 2018, two firms inSpainranked among the world's biggestpublishers of booksin terms of revenue:Grupo PlanetaandGrupo Santillana.In 2013, there were 524,213 titlesin printin Spain, including 76,434 new titles.

History

See also:Global spread of the printing press § Spain

"The first Spanishpresswas set up in 1473 atValencia,where the German trading company of Ravensburg had an important base.... Publishing flourished in the early period atBarcelona,Burgos,Zaragoza,Seville,and the university towns ofSalamancaandAlcalá 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, includingPrensa Española,andPrisa.As of 2013 there were 809 publishing enterprises.

TheUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural OrganizationdesignatedMadridthe 2001World Book Capital.

Booksellers

Further information (in Spanish):Bookstores in Spain

Fairs

• Feria del Libro de Albacete
• Feria del libro y del disco vasco de Durango
• Feria del Libro de Madrid
• Feria de Otoño del Libro Viejo y Antiguo de Madrid
• Feria del Libro Antiguo y de Ocasión de Madrid
• Feria del libro de Valencia

Collections

See also:Category:Libraries in SpainandCategory:Spanish bibliophiles

Further information (in Spanish):Libraries in Spain

• Biblioteca Colombina,Seville
• Museo del Libro Fadrique de Basilea,inBurgos

See also

Literature of Spain
•Medieval literature
•Renaissance
•Miguel de Cervantes
•Baroque
•Enlightenment
•Romanticism
•Realism
•Modernismo
•Generation of '98
•Novecentismo
•Generation of '27
• Literature subsequent to the Civil War

• Collection (publishing)
• Copyright law of Spain
• Legal deposit: Spain
• Book publishing companies of Spain(es)
• Spanish literature
• Media of Spain
• Printing in Spain
  • Printing in Burgos
  • Printing in Segovia
  • Printing in Seville
  • Printing in Valencia
• Spanish children's books
• University College Dublin'sIberian Booksproject (est. 2007)

Bibliography

in English

• G.W. Porter; G.K. Fortescue, eds. (1889)."Bibliographies of Countries: Spain".List of Bibliographical Works in the Reading Room of the British Museum(2nd ed.). London.OCLC3816244– viaInternet Archive.{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Konrad Haebler(1897).Early Printers of Spain and Portugal.Illustrated Monographs. Chiswick Press for the Bibliographical Society.
• Robert Proctor(1898). "Books Printed From Types: Spain".Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum.London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company. pp. 698+.hdl:2027/uc1.c3450632.OCLC6438080– viaHathiTrust.
• Henry Thomas (1920)."Output of Spanish Books in the Sixteenth Century".The Library.1, 4th series (2). Oxford University Press, for theBibliographical Society.ISSN0024-2160.[1]
• Laurence Witten(1959). "Earliest Books Printed in Spain".Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.53(2): 91–113.doi:10.1086/pbsa.53.2.24299724.JSTOR24299724.S2CID163403969.
• Frederick John Norton[in German](1966).Printing in Spain 1501-1520.Cambridge University Press.ISBN9780521131186.OCLC58905805.
• Harry Braverman;et al. (10 July 1969),"Publishing in Spain",New York Review of Books,13(1)
• V. F. Goldsmith, A Short Title Catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese Books 1601-1700 in the Library of the British Museum. 1974
• D. W. Cruickshank (1976). "Some Aspects of Spanish Book-Production in the Golden Age".The Library.31, 5th series.ISSN0024-2160.
• Dennis E. Rhodes (1976),"More light on sixteenth-century printing at Salamanca",British Library Journal,UK,ISSN1478-0259
• D. W. Cruickshank (1978). "'Literature' and the Book Trade in Golden-Age Spain ".Modern Language Review.73(4): 799–824.doi:10.2307/3727595.JSTOR3727595.[2]
• Allen Kent;et al., eds. (1978)."Printers and Printing".Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science.Vol. 23. Marcel Dekker.ISBN978-0-8247-2023-0.
  • 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+
• Theodore S. Beardsley Jr. (1979). "Spanish Printers and the Classics: 1482-1599".Hispanic Review.47(1): 25–35.doi:10.2307/472922.JSTOR472922.
• Keith Whinnom[in Spanish](1980). "Problem of the 'Best-Seller' in Spanish Golden-Age Literature".Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.
• Catherine Swietlicki (1993)."Printing in Spain".InGermán Bleiberg[in Spanish];et al. (eds.).Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula.Greenwood Press.p. 1316+.ISBN978-0-313-28732-9.
• "Spain: Directory: Publishers".Europa World Year Book 2004.Europa Publications.2004. p. 3909+.ISBN1857432533.
• Rosario de Mateo; et al. (2004). "Spain: Book Publishing". In Euromedia Research Group; Mary Kelly (eds.).Media in Europe(3rd ed.).SAGE Publications.p. 228.ISBN978-0-7619-4132-3.
• Alexander Samuel Wilkinson (ed.).Iberian Books.Brill.OCLC948629100.2010-
• Maria Luisa López-Vidriero (2013). "Iberian Peninsula". In Michael F. Suarez;H. R. Woudhuysen(eds.).The Book: A Global History.Oxford University Press. pp. 406–419.ISBN978-0-19-967941-6.
• Benito Rial Costas, ed. (2013).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.Brill.ISBN9789004235748.
• Antonio Cordón-García José; et al. (2014). "E-Book publishing in Spain: The paradoxes of a dual model".Electronic Library.32.doi:10.1108/EL-12-2012-0155.hdl:10366/129764.ISSN0264-0473.
• Alexander S. Wilkinson; Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo, eds. (2017).A Maturing Market: The Iberian Book World in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century.Brill.ISBN9789004340374.

in Spanish

• Francisco Méndez[in Spanish](1861).Dionisio Hidalgo[in Spanish](ed.).Tipografia española, ó Historia de la introduccion, propagacion y progresos del arte de la imprenta en España[Spanish typography, or history of the introduction, propagation and progress of the art of printing in Spain] (in Spanish). Madrid.{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Cristóbal Pérez Pastor(1891–1907).Bibliografia madrilena del siglo XVI(in Spanish).
• Konrad Haebler (1903).Bibliografía Ibérica del Siglo XV: enumeración de todos los libros impresos en España y Portugal hasta el año de 1500[Iberian Bibliography of the 15th Century: list of all printed books in Spain and Portugal until the year 1500] (in Spanish). Nijhoff.
• Bibliografía general española e hispano-americana(in Spanish), 1923–1942,OCLC1112967
• El libro espanol(in Spanish), Madrid: Instituto Nacional del Libro Español,OCLC2434698771958-
• Fernando Cendán Pazos (1974).Historia del derecho español de prensa e imprenta (1502-1966)[History of the Spanish press and publications law] (in Spanish). Madrid.ISBN8427611862.{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

in other languages

• Raimundo Diosdado Caballero(1793).De prima typographiae hispanicae aetate specimen(in Latin). Rome: Antonium Fulgonium.[3]

External links

• Federación de Gremios de Editores de España(publisher association)
• "(Place:ES)",Incunabula Short Title Catalogue:the International Database of 15th-century European Printing,British Library(Bibliography of editions published in Spain; also browsable bytown)
• "National Bibliographic Register: Spain".Ifla.org.The Hague:International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
• "(su:Book industries and trade -- Spain)".WorldCat.US: OCLC.(Bibliography)