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BY ROBERT STOKES

A SURGE in e-book reading in Spain coincides with exhibition space being devoted to digital publishing for the first time ever at LIBER, the International Book Fair for the Spanish speaking world, from Wednesday to Friday this week in Madrid.…

BY VILLEN ANGANAN

The constant risk of financial crisis and economic malaise in the European Union (EU) is real and may have worrisome consequences for the Mauritius textile sector.

This Indian Ocean island state’s important textile and clothing sector has been dealing with the global recession in 2009, causing a contraction of 2.9% in output through a fall in demand from US and Europe markets.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

EXPORT development and digital trends dominated discussion at the 30th annual staging of Liber, Spain’s leading book fair, in Barcelona last week.

With Spain still gripped by recession, short-term hopes rest on exports and e-books. Government figures released at Liber showed book exports of all kinds rose 5.4% to EUR482 million (GBP402 million) in 2011.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

The European Commission has proposed a second handout this year for redundant Spanish textile industry workers, drawn from the European Union’s (EU) Globalisation Adjustment Fund. Brussels in August proposed spending Euro EUR2.8 million on former Galician textile workers; now it has asked the European Parliament to authorise another EUR2 million on 350 unemployed textile workers in Alicante province.…

BY PAUL RIGG

SPAIN’S top book fair has been told by an American anti-piracy firm that publishers and retailers can protect themselves against illegal downloads, even as digital publishing becomes increasingly dominant.

Yuri Burka, Europe, Middle East and Africa director for Attributor, told LIBER, the international book fair for the Spanish speaking world that acting proactively against illegal downloaders did work: "There is a group of occasional offenders who can be influenced," he said.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

SPAIN’s main publishing association has demanded greater political

commitment to defending the book industry against piracy and promoting

reading.

Antoni Comas, president of the Federación de Gremios de Editores de España

(FGEE), the Federation of Spanish Publishers’ Guilds, made the demand at the

October 4 inauguration of the 29th LIBER International Book Fair in Madrid.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

GRUPO Planeta, Spain’s foremost publishing and media group, has started distributing its entire Spanish language catalogue through Apple España’s iBookstore.

e-books from 24 of Planeta’s imprints can now be downloaded via iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and www.itunes.es

Leading Spanish and international authors feature among more than a thousand digital titles.…

BY OSAMA DIAB

THE EGYPTIAN Refining Company (ERC) signed a deal in August to build a US dollar USD3.7 billion second-stage greenfield refinery adjacent to the existing Mostorod refinery 40 kilometres northeast of Cairo. The purpose of the new hydro-cracking and coking refinery is to take its needs of fuel oil from the nearby Mostorod refinery owned by the Cairo Oil Refinery Company, the biggest oil refining company in Egypt contributing 20% to Egypt’s oil refining capacity, and transform it into lighter fuel such as ultra-low sulphur diesel.…

BY PAUL RIGG

THE DIRECTOR of Spanish e-book platform Libranda has welcomed an announcement at LIBER, the international book fair for the Spanish speaking world, that Spain’s ruling socialists plan to "super-reduce" e-book IVA [VAT] to 4%. The announcement came from Alfredo Rubalcaba, who is the socialists’ candidate to become prime minister in the upcoming Spanish elections next month.…

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.…