Comments on: Overview of the state of Spain’s ebook business http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/overview-of-the-state-of-spains-ebook-business/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:28:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: asphalt http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/overview-of-the-state-of-spains-ebook-business/comment-page-1/#comment-1149915 asphalt Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:30:47 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=32846#comment-1149915 My expectations for Spain's 'ebook publishing industry' are extremely low. This, based upon my experience with their *print* publishing industry. They do short runs, and reprint few titles. At least one publisher re-uses ISBN's. Or at least they were as of 2000-2001. A good indication of a lack of understanding of data. The online ordering system of one of the largest distributors -- whom I no longer use at all, so if I'm not alone may have shrunk in the meantime -- can only be described as backward. Last time I ordered, it automatically sent an e-mail message to the distributor with the citation of the desired title. And the subject line: 'Pedido'. Yikes. E-publishing? That's really *hard*. And *technological*. I would love to hear about this from a contributor or commenter who knows more than I do about publishing -- and reading -- in Spain. Is reading still an exclusive activity of the upper classes? My expectations for Spain’s ‘ebook publishing industry’ are extremely low. This, based upon my experience with their *print* publishing industry. They do short runs, and reprint few titles. At least one publisher re-uses ISBN’s. Or at least they were as of 2000-2001. A good indication of a lack of understanding of data. The online ordering system of one of the largest distributors — whom I no longer use at all, so if I’m not alone may have shrunk in the meantime — can only be described as backward. Last time I ordered, it automatically sent an e-mail message to the distributor with the citation of the desired title. And the subject line: ‘Pedido’. Yikes. E-publishing? That’s really *hard*. And *technological*.

I would love to hear about this from a contributor or commenter who knows more than I do about publishing — and reading — in Spain. Is reading still an exclusive activity of the upper classes?

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