Libranda says non-fiction e-book sales remained roughly the same in 2020 as in 2019, making up about a third of the market, with self-help and personal development books, society and culture, the latest in science and humanities, and biographies being the most popular.Ĭhildren's and young adult e-books sold also remained similar to figures seen the previous year, at 5.6% of the total, with YA series and educational books featuring children's characters being the main genres. Some of the bestselling books in e-reader format in 2020 were French crime writer Joël Dicker's The Enigma of Room 622 Juan Gómez-Jurado's trilogy made up of Reina Roja, Loba Negra and Rey Blanco ('Red Queen', 'Black She-Wolf' and 'White King') Almudena Grandes' La Madre de Frankenstein ('Frankenstein's Mother') Carmen Mola's La Nena ('The Young Lass'), and in non-fiction, Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: From Animals to Gods. In the past 11 years, she has written nearly 40 'chick-lit' novels, which have been flying off the shelves so fast that she ended up winning the 2017 Mediterranean Letters Prize in the Romantic Novel category, despite having initially had her works rejected by a number of publishers before finally ending up in print. Top Spanish authors bought in e-book format were Juan Gómez Jurado (Madrid), Elísabet Benavent (Valencia), and German-born Megan Maxwell – real name María del Carmen Rodríguez, whose mother is from Toledo, father is from the USA, and who grew up in Germany before moving to Madrid as a young adult. Works of fiction continue to be the most popular, representing 60.7% of the overall cost in euros, with about a quarter being contemporary fiction, crime and detective novels 13.3%, and romance novels 9.9%. The bulk of the market was shared between mainstream international platforms such as Amazon, Google and Apple – a 77.8% market share, representing a growth of 35.5% in 2020 – although smaller independent platforms, including those run by book stores themselves, noticed a rise of 40.9%, with their overall market share totalling 11.4% or, in Spain, 14%.īorrowing of e-books from libraries took 5.1% of the market, increasing in financial value by 63.7%, and e-reader platform subscriptions taken out rose by 36.2%. In terms of growth rather than numbers, Uruguay, Ecuador, Perú and Guatemala were ahead of Spain. Not including academic textbooks, the Spanish-language e-book market last year reached €115.7 million worldwide, of which Spain accounted for 65%, or €75m México for 11.2%, and the USA for 9%. Loba negra / The Black Wolf (LA TRILOGÍA REINA ROJA) (Spanish Edition) by Gomez-Jurado, Juan and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. SEGUIR VIVA Antonia Scott no tiene miedo a nada. El fenómeno que ha enganchado a más de 2.000.000 de lectores. Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first audiobook free. In general, electronic versions of books which had been out for some time captured about 7.3% of e-reader users, although this would rise to between 15% and 20% in the case of new releases and some brand-new, often eagerly-awaited titles broke the 40% barrier. Loba negra Gómez-Jurado, Juan B de bolsillo Ref. Listen to 'Loba negra' by Juan Gómez-Jurado available from Rakuten Kobo. Libranda deals in audio books and e-books, so it was not able to reveal to what extent 'traditional' paper books sold last year – although high-street book shops were closed during the three-month lockdown and their hours have been restricted in the past few months, many continued to sell these online, via their own websites or via Amazon, particularly national chains.īased upon data from 2019, sales of e-books in Spanish soared worldwide by 37%, said managing director of Libranda, Arantza Larrauri – an increase she called 'extraordinary' and 'the biggest in recent times'. Information collected is aggregated and anonymous.SALES of e-books in Spain rocketed by 43% last year, and fiction was the most popular type, according to one of the country's leading distributors. These cookies enable us to provide better services based on how users use our website, and allow us to improve our features to deliver better user experience. 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