Spanish-Language Digital Publishing: A New Report
In a batch of new analysis based on Bookwire’s Spanish-language clients, a coda cautions the industry about ‘What We Need To Learn.’
In Segovia, during the ‘pandemic summer’ of 2020, this shot made on August 24. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Javier Gonzalez
A Seventh Report from Bookwire and Dosdoce
By the time you get through the new
Evolution of the Digital Market report for 2021, it may be 2022. But you can’t say that this extensive, 70-page PDF doesn’t offer a lot of information.
Released today (May 18), this is the seventh iteration of the annual assessment from the Frankfurt-based Bookwire‘s Spanish arm and the long-established consultancy Dosdoce in Bilbao. It’s produced by gathering information from at least 840 publishers in Spain and Latin America. Those 840+ publishers are customers of Bookwire, described as “involved in distribution via the Bookwire OS platform.”
In its second year, the distributor’s ‘All About Audio’ event again hears from key companies’ representatives on their offers and observations.
An audio listener in Moscow on April 16. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Yury Karamanenko
Nine ‘Makers of the Boom’
Many
Publishing Perspectives readers will remember the first outing of Bookwire’s “All About Audio” conference in June 2020. With its slightly dire-sounding message of “streaming is inevitable,” the first wave of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic‘s most furious outbreaks was only then easing up in many markets. Publishing’s “digital acceleration,” driven by the pathogen, still hadn’t been fully demonstrated by statistical analysis, though it clearly was a good bet.