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BEA Attendance Low in Los Angeles by Aída Bardales, 6/15/2008 9:00:00 AM
This year’s location for BookExpo America (BEA), which took place in Los Angeles from May 29 to June 1, resulted in poor attendance and overall low energy. More
BEA Attendance Low in Los Angeles
by Aída Bardales - 06/15/2008
This year’s location for BookExpo America (BEA), which took place in Los Angeles from May 29 to June 1, resulted in poor attendance and overall low energy.
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10th Latino Book Awards Go to Popular and Under-the-Radar Titles
by Ximena Diego - 06/15/2008
The winners of this year’s International Latino Book Awards included best sellers like Rhonda Byrne’s El Secreto (The Secret, Atria Books) and Isabel Allende’s La suma de los días (The Sum of Our Days, Rayo), as well as less-familiar titles from small, independent (and unorthodox) publishing houses.
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ImpreMedia and Rayo Serialize De La Hoya Autobiography
by Carmen Cusido - 06/15/2008
ImpreMedia, a leading online and print Hispanic news company, has joined forces with HarperCollins’s Rayo to promote boxing champion Oscar De La Hoya’s autobiography.
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Former Audio Book Distributor Launches Online Store
by Carmen Cusido - 06/15/2008
After years as a marketing manager at the Miami Beach-based Spanish-language music and audio book distributor YoYo Books, Luis Carlos Leaño decided to go on his own to form the online store Audiolibros en Español, based in Pembroke Pines, FL. More
Down in the OC: Previewing ALA
06/15/2008
The 2008 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference will be held in Anaheim, CA, from June 26–July 2, 2008. It is open to librarians, exhibitors, and attendees to exchange new and innovative information on the future of libraries. There are exciting events to serve Spanish speakers as well.
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Former Planeta Sales Director Joins Rayo Team
by Adriana V. López - 05/15/2008
Planeta’s former U.S. sales director, Marla Norman—a recognized mover and shaker in the U.S. Spanish-language publishing world—has joined HarperCollin’s Rayo team. Norman officially began her role as a Spanish-language consultant and contributor to Rayo’s marketing, publicity, and sales forces on May 27.
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California Dreaming: Previewing BEA.
05/15/2008
For the past several years, the Spanish-language book market’s presence at BookExpo America (BEA) has grown in scope, and this year’s event in the Los Angeles Convention Center is no exception
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Playing the Angel
After making fans wait seven painstaking years, Ruiz Zafón returns with El juego del ángel, a prequel to his global best seller La sombra del viento.
Publishing in Tough Times
When I read a recent New York Times article about how the recession is affecting Hispanic immigrants, I wound up thinking about the book business.
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