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The objective of this article is to give an account of the production of cacao in the Girón governorate and its circulation in the internal market of New Granada, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The aim is to reconstruct the commodity chain of cacao, with the different necessary links for the creation of this commodity. The different phases necessary for the cultivation and preparation of cacao are described, as well as the necessary social and commercial relationships between merchants and farmers that allowed for both the financing and circulation of the crops. For the development of this work, testaments, and debt and payment records registered in the Girón notarial archive were reviewed, as well as the alcabala record books of the city and the trade guides located in the Nation's General Archive. The comparison of notarial and fiscal sources allows for an account of the necessary relationships between local merchants and farmers, the magnitude of the cacao trade, and its importance within the local economy at the end of the colonial period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the changes that occurred in 19th century Spain in the book industry and education and how these circumstances contributed to more women taking up the pen. During that period the industrial revolution profoundly affected the publishing industry, resulting in fundamental changes to the production, distribution and access to books. This resulted in a proliferation of both titles and print runs, increasing access to books and the possibility of a larger segment of the population to read them. The 19th century also saw the democratisation of access to education, allowing new social groups to receive a basic education, increasing literacy. This new context encouraged a group of brave women to publish their writing and even attempt to influence public opinion through articles published in the press. Access to education and reading opened the eyes of these courageous women, allowing them to learn about the lives of others and encouraging them to write about their own stories and thus leave a testimony of their struggles and hopes that ultimately paved the way for numerous other women writers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on the results of the application of a survey to 214 users of bookstores in Bogotá and Medellín, and 21 interviews with booksellers in these same two cities, this article presents an analysis of the conditions in which bookseller or bookstore owners performs their role and the functions they perform in relation to the particularities of each bookstore. The aim is contributed to the knowledge of these important spaces within the fabric of our cities, even more so in the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic. The conclusions of the analysis make it possible to establish the main characteristics that are currently expected of a bookseller and the bookstore space, as well as to propose a series of recommendations to strengthen the country's bookstore network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The general aim of this research is to validate the hypothesis that the book and its industry, as an integral part of cultural industries, have economic-social characteristics that differentiate them from other industries and merchandise. Once this statement has been corroborated, it is considered that this fact should be taken into account by the academic community, professionals, companies, and those responsible for public administrations when it comes to equating, subsuming, or assimilating the book industry with respect to the creative industries, content industries, entertainment industries, media economics, or copyright industries. The process followed to validate the hypothesis is structured around three objectives: (1) to analyze the main attempts at economic modeling of culture developed over the last 25 years, and how these contemplate the categories of cultural industries and the book industry; (2) to determine by comparison the main socioeconomic characteristics of the cultural industries; (3) to establish in an original way the socioeconomic characteristics of the book industry. For this research, an inductive-deductive method based on three qualitative tools was applied over 29 months (April 2019 to August 2021), including (1) the review, analysis, systematization, and extraction of relevant information through an inductive process of purposefully searching the main sources relating to the objects of study, (2) the establishment of a group of 28 experts who anonymously and systematically debated the different phases of this study in three stages, and (3) in-depth interviews with 43 experts from and on the book industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We carry out mesoeconomic and mesoanalytical analyses of the structure and economic dimension of the book production process in Spain. For this report, the following have been carried out: (1) 43 in-depth interviews with experts have been conducted; (2) the information provided by Panorámica de la edición española from 1996 to 2019 has been systematized; (3) financial information from 2,683 companies for the period 2019-2021 has been obtained through the Sistema de Análisis de Balances Ibéricos. The report contains: (1) an original and rigorous way of analyzing the book production process in Spain; (2) novel quantitative and qualitative information about publishing companies, as well as their suppliers of goods and services: editorial services, packagers, graphic arts divisions, the paper industry, and software providers; (3) relevant information about the context in which book production takes place in Spain and the national and international institutions involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A study of the Chilean publishing production during the period from 2013 to 2020 is presented with the objective of evaluating the publishing activity in Chile between those years. For this purpose, a review of the projects selected in the calls of the Book Fund has been made, selection made through the processes that the National Fund for the Promotion of Books and Reading indicates in the modality "Support to the industry". As a result of a quantitative analysis, a vision is obtained of the current state of the publishing market, the impact of the promotion policies and a prospection of the future of the book industry in Chile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Book sale catalogues are the main source in the history of the book trade. Its advertising nature allows us to approach the rhythms of the book market, and guides on the strategies used by booksellers to reach their customers. The ephemeral nature of these materials has prevented, however, to know their impact on commercial life or even determine the frequency of their use by booksellers. Based on a database that registers more than 500 catalogues published for the Argentine cultural space between 1850 and 1920, this article analyzes the rise of these materials, reveals their origins and producers, and highlights some of their transformations in a long time. The study thus emphasizes the need to recognize bookshop's sales catalogues as a leading material in the consolidation of a printed culture in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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From the focus of the editorial studies, in this text, I will reconstruct part of the history of the publishing house Pijao Editores (1972-present), one of the longest-running Colombian literary publishers in the country. Pijao Editores is recognized for its robust literary catalog and for functioning as a publishing house for the dissemination of the first works of many Colombian authors, when they did not easily find support for the publication of their works. The objectives of the text are, on one hand, to present a part of the history --until now non-existent-- of the publishing house and, on the other hand, to reconstruct and analyze its catalog (1972-2000). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the study of cultural history has undergone an extraordinary development and, within that framework, the knowledge of society has been deepened through writing, publishing and reading. So, starting from considering that books acquire new life when they are recovered in their textual meaning, in their production conditions and their materialities, the Argentine editions of the 19th century present in the catalog of the Biblioteca de la Academia Argentina de Letras will be analyzed. It is understood that this approach allows studying texts in multiple dimensions. Thus, after passing from the world of print to the world of the reader, we will try to find answers to old questions -such as those found in the Almanaque Indicador Argentino (1899)- from new perspectives of understanding the multiplicity and differentiation of cultural practices, showing the author and his texts, the editor and the editions to reach the readers and the strategies deployed and shared senses around the books and readings in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main goal of this paper is to analyze how technological change affects the Spanish publishing industry and how it is adapting to the new digital environment. This work provides an averview of the situation of the Spanish publishing sector through the collection of data, mainly from secondary sources of information, both public and private, from 1996 to 2017, that involved the review of a large number of documents from different sources, the analysis of data obtained, and the generation of a time series allowing us to glimpse the state and evolution of digitalization in the Spanish publishing industry throughout these last twenty years. The paper refers to the new business models emerging as a result of digitization to, finally, close with some conclusions and limitations of the research. This study is not trying to be just a journey through the past, present and future of the spanish book industry in Spain, but it pretends to be the first step to continue investigating these and other aspects in a deeper way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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According to one of the main concepts of the material bibliography, which states that the format of the book conditions the meaning of the text, we propose the analysis of illustrated covers and book jackets. Because it is a type of graphic discourse, it is closer to editorial design than the author of the text. However, illustrated covers are responsible for different interpretations and are addressed to different kinds of readers. We exemplify this phenomenon with one of the latest novels by Beatriz Guido, The Invitation, published by Losada in 1979, by Alianza Editorial in 1982 and by Círculo de Lectores in 1984. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article reports on the current status of the worldwide book industry, with specific reference to that in Argentina. Topics discussed include the case of Argentine national market with its own characteristics; how the Argentine book industry processed, in more or less conflictive ways, the effects of the global changes in a specific context; a process of increasing market concentration of transnational oligopoly; new technologies applied to the production of books; and the emergence of small and medium publishers.

The aim of this study is to put into value the work done by the bookseller and bookbinder Pedro Martínez, with a bookstore and workshop in Madrid from the end of the eighteenth century until the first decade of the nineteenth century, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. This work was made through the consultation of the account books and other files of the Academy Archive and the analysis in situ of the bookbindings outlined in the documentation, thus getting to know better the type of bindings ordered, their prices, materials, recipients, for a better understanding of the history of the institution itself, the guild of booksellers, printers and bookbinders from Madrid and therefore from the society of that time in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following article presents a methodological proposal which allows to approach the study of the Best Sellers collection of the Colombian publishing house La Oveja Negra. This clarifies some categories and concepts that place the historical study of reading in a triangle that combines the text, the material form and the meanings that readers generate. The corpus of the study comprises 100 titles arranged in a series, of which, for all practical purposes, 8 were selected to delimit and propose a group of instruments that allow for progress in this research. This article is divided into various parts, in which an attempt is made to simultaneously reconstruct the context of appearance of the collection and the theoretical implications that the phenomenon demands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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At the beginning of the 20th century, there were emerged democratizing projects of book access emerging, accompanied by processes of urbanization and schooling that signed and shaped the "future readers". In the construction of book history, edition and reading in Argentina, a series of researches are bringing new approaches and reflections, which makes it possible to study how, when, why of the uses of the book and the modes of reading, as well as the circumstances and strategies deployed by the editorial activity, the author/publisher relationship, the marketing, the profile of the readers and the practices that allowed the appropriation of the print culture. Taking this as a starting point the project The print culture in advertisements of the printing press in Argentina during the twentieth century. Scopes and projections seeks to inquire about some of the many reasons men and women have read, looking at advertising notices and booklets in book's marketing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current article presents the research results about the publishing project led by Germán Arciniegas, when he was Minister of Education of Colombia: The collection of the "Biblioteca Popular de Cultura Colombiana". This project shows some editorial trends of the official edition in Colombia during the first half of the twentieth century as well as the way in which the editor configured his readers and supported the idea of expanding the market for Colombian book. In this way, this project contributed to the modernization of the Colombian publishing industry, at a time of transition towards the professionalization-specialization of the function of editors and writers in Colombia, and of an increase of the reading public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes a topic which has attract the attention of historians, journalists, and librarians, but it has almost never been systematically researched: Secondhand book trade. The period of time between 1886 and 1930 is explored to criticize the romantic ways to approach this subject. Also, through the analysis of this 'street business', concepts like modernization, hygienic measures, and urban planning can be reviewed. For the purpose of writing this article, archives were consulted that are not specifically related to this topic, especially the Ramo Mercados of Archivo Histórico de la Ciudad de México. Finally, the article explores how secondhand books trade was linked to political, cultural and economic processes of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In a research field to be explored yet as is the history of the print culture and reading in Colombia, we discuss the main contributions achieved up to now, trying to classify them by historical trends that, from its methodological and theoretical approaches, allow us to explore the practical and symbolic meanings embodied by the "book" and the "reading" in a specific context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to reveal a research that was centered in the design of textbooks in a professional context. Theoretical and empirical methods were applied in order to analyse and resume different theories related to this topic, to systematize the content of some models of the professional and to observe the behaviour of the students in the different careers. This gave rise to the elaboration of a model that may serve as a guide to the authors in order to elaborate textbooks. Its application is strengthened when verification tests are applied. This test was made after the publication of a book (La Expresión Gráfica para Ingenieros Eléctricos) that was derived from the suggested model in the research step and the results showed a development in the acquisition of knowledge by the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is intended to answer the still open questions regarding the title of Quevedo's Marco Bruto (Marcus Brutus), the last political treatise which was published during his lifetime. There are substantial changes in the different reviews caused by bibliographical and textual vagueness: partial mutilation of the title page of some princeps copy, an inadequate delimitation of the information on the half title and title page, or the innovations introduced by the series editions of the 17th century. According to the detailed study of the kept copies of 1644 and 1645, which was set in a context of particular bibliographic circumstances regarding the author's imprisonment and the loss of the second part of the book after his death, the sole genuine title endorsed by text transmission is Primera parte de la vida de Marco Bruto (First Part of the Life of Marcus Brutus). Thus it was printed, without any differences between editions and copies, in the two printings supervised by him before he died. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article discusses the commercial activities involved in the book industry of Seville, Spain, during the 16th century. The author comments on the role of publishers, librarians, and merchants in forming a successful trade network with Europe and the Americas. The process of business negotiation at the time is also explored.

El artículo discurre sobre el estado actual de la industria del libro en Venezuela. El autor comenta sobre las condiciones económicas asociadas con esta industria, incluyendo el costo de libros a causa de la escasez de papel en la región. También se considera la demanda de los venezolanos en cuanto a los libros.

The author analyzes some aspects around the political dimension of the public library. In this way, he states that the connection of politics with the discipline of library science and the practice of librarianship is a complex topic which can be analyzed from different approaches. He deals with the apolitical myth of the public library through the discussion of four political factors about libraries: government, citizens, electoral and revolutionary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current work analyses consumers' attitudes towards eBooks and eReaders, as well as the use behavior in order to know the real risks that threaten the book industry. Findings show that the price of the devices and the eBooks, and the lack of eBooks variety are the main inhibitors to buy these devices. Moreover, users' preferences about eBooks' prices and the tendency to pirate depict an uncertain future to this industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an interview with Spanish writer and editor Jorge Herralde, the founder and director of the Anagrama publishing house in Barcelona, Spain. Herralde discusses the rise of the electronic book, his desire to see the history of publishing in Spain studied, and the balance between Latin American literature and Spanish literature.

This article analyzes the reception of the Instituto Literario's iniciative to create a public library in Cali during the Regeneration. To do so, it examines brief public statements as well as various book donations, which are useful to understand the cultural climate of the period and the dynamics of urban literary consumption. It also explores how women and other social groups responded to the initiative. The article concludes by looking at the role of the interational book market in promoting certain tendencies, titles, and authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an in-depth analysis of the library and life of Francesc Veray, the Spanish general vicar of the bishopric of Gerona, Catalonia, Spain. Biographical facts of Veray are presented along with a complete list of the titles found in his library. The vicar's library provides valuable historical insight into the legal culture of the Baroque period, the international book trade during that time, and the dissemination of legal literature and information across Europe and into America. The influence of gifts and sales on the book trade is also discussed.

This study explores the ideological implications of black humor in David Toscana's narrative works. The satiric and acerbic humor, the mocking parody and irony play a crucial role in the author's critique of contemporary Mexican society. We highlight his satirical treatment of Modernity and history, but above all of the book culture in Mexico, to show how his critique relates to the idea of individual and collective failure as a corollary to underdevelopment. In particular, his works critique the instrumental reason promoted by the nonfiction books that have saturated the book market. We also examine his morbid humor and parody in relation to the Hispanic tradition, primarily in comparison with Cervantes and the play of truth and fantasy in Don Quixote. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the appearances of heraldry in ancient books, and evaluates their use for researching the history of the books' owners and the manuscripts themselves. The author discusses the use of heraldic watermarks and ex libris, or bookplates, used in Spain beginning in the 14th century as markers of possession. Heraldic images were primarily family shields or coats of arms, and the varying styles, designs and traditional uses of the heraldry from country to country are described. The social statuses of nobility and royalty, indicated by the heraldry, are also discussed.

It has been affirmed that Choderlos de Laclos's Les liaisons dangereuses (1782) was not published in Spanish until 1822. Yet a rare (mutilated) translation, titled La Presidenta de Turvel, appeared in 1799 and was announced repeatedly in various newspapers. This article studies the drastic pruning that the translator (most likely Benito Riveira, the name of the individual who sought permission to publish the work) undertook. Even with the pruning the novel would have had serious problems getting by the censors had it not fallen into the hands of a lazy or indifferent evaluator (don Andrés Navarro) who gave his permission to publish it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An interview is presented with Mexican editor Jorge Herralde. He discusses the history of the Mexican publishing house Anagrama and talks about the tasks and skills involved in editing books. Herralde reflects on the relationship between book editors and literary critics and comments on the importance of translations.

The article discusses the 2007 release of a 40th anniversary commemorative edition of "Cien años de soledad" ("One Hundred Years of Solitude") by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, with respect to the concentration of media ownership and the politics of marketing. The author describes the edition as being supported by academic organizations, media companies like Bertelsmann AG, and other Latin American authors, but asserts that by commemorating a book so important to the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s and 1970s, the publishing and media industries may do a disservice to the field of Latin American literature, making it a book that is owned and revered worldwide but seldom read.