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April 17, 2008

Yearbook of Children and Youth Literature 2008

The SM Group has presented the Yearbook on the 2008 book for children and teens. This publication includes statistical information, trends and an analysis of the sector during the year 2007. The yearbook also presents data from the literature for children and teens in Catalan, Basque and galician, as well as their presence in several Latin American countries. The full text of the Yearbook can be downloaded from the Web SM. In the press release by which it has disseminated the publication of the yearbook for 2008 provides some data as outstanding children's literature and youth continues gaining presence in the publishing industry Spanish, with nearly 60 million copies and rising billing 14'8%. It stresses that the fantasy genre is still booming thanks to the publication of new titles and the closure of trilogies of success. According to this source, 64'2% of those under 14 read by choice.

---> Automatically translated text by Google Translate. Version without links. See the original post in Spanish in Biblioblog.

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