Barcelona, Dec 15 (EFE) .- The publishing sector in Spain “is coming out of the tunnel” in 2015 and, although no figures yet, growing for the second year row, even though 40% of the population “never or almost never read a book,” said today the president of the Guild of Editors of Catalonia, Patrici Tixis.
Tixis has assessed the situation of sector, the same day that celebrates the 30th edition of Night and called for a pact of State to promote interest in reading in schools and the study of the humanities in the school curriculum.
this point, stressed that something “went wrong” in Spain when seven million adults “reading comprehension difficulties,” considering that “the great social elevator is reading.”
in his view, it is “functionally illiterate,” so you have to reverse the situation “a pact of State for all political parties to promote reading in schools and create reading habits from a young age”.
Regarding the sales figures that handles the union this year, it noted that the sector “will grow for the second consecutive year,” possibly above 0.6% in 2014, but have not yet been closed quantities, . waiting for the end of the Christmas season
However, the increase in book sales on the day of Sant Jordi was 6%, with a turnover of 20 million euros; Fair in Madrid there was another increase of 6% over 2014; and Setmana del Llibre en Català in September marked a turnover of 300,000 euros, 25% more than last year.
Since the beginning of the crisis, by 2008, the publishing industry had suffered a sales drop about 40%.
One of the keys to growth is the “momentum” in the sale of books on paper, while the digital book progresses “very slowly” to consider contributes “decisively” to recovery.
To Tixis therefore the “coexistence book paper and digital will be long” and added that “the role you have many years of life with strength and energy. “
On the other hand, he stressed that Spain is one of the countries” most pirates in the world “, which occurred in 2014 334 million illegal downloads of books.
Patrici Tixis loaded against the government and the parliamentary parties, because in January approved the amendment to the Law of Intellectual Property to fight piracy, but “since that date there has been not a single penalty is exemplary “.
In addition, has called tax incentives for innovation, supporting libraries and public resources to renew the catalog in libraries.
As for the appointment of Barcelona Literary as Unesco City, President of the Catalan publishers has maintained that serve to “make the leap” that the city needs and has advanced that it is already working to organize an annual international conference of editors.
Regarding the implementation of a distribution plant in Catalonia Amazon, Tixis has argued that if the company “complies with the law, there is no problem.” “Welcome to all those who help spread the book, the thing is, when you have a size that exceeds that of the other, tend to establish the conditions,” he noted
In your opinion. “Competition must be fair,” although he has not missed many of these multinationals are set in places “where they do not pay taxes, because the pay elsewhere, causing competition is not equal equals “.
Catalonia currently produces 48.3% of the books in Spain, followed by Madrid with 43.3%, Basque Country, with 2.9% and Andalusia with 1.9%.
During the celebration of the Night of the Atlantis Award Edition sculptor Jaume Plensa be delivered, for his contribution to promoting reading, and recognize the fiftieth anniversary of the Encyclopedia . Catalan and Editorial Kairos, and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Caja de Arquitectos Foundation
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