SPAIN BOOK SALES DIPPED IN 2010 SAYS SURVEY
October 1st, 2010
BY ROBERT STOKES
SPANISH bookshops suffered an overall 6.2% drop in the value of book sales in 2010, a survey for their national association suggests, as the Madrid book fair LIBER wraps up today (Friday). The decline found by consultants BCF marked a reversal in fortunes after a strong recovery that bucked Spain's deep economic crisis in 2009.
Findings of Barçelona based BCF's survey for the Confederación Española de Gremios y Asociaciones de Libreros (CEGAL), the Spanish Confederation of Booksellers' Guilds and Associations, were presented October 5 at ...
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