Liber will seek to recover book exports, which fell by 26% – Culture

The publishing sector faces the LIBER 2021 fair, to be held in Madrid from October 13 to 15, as an opportunity to recover book exports that fell 26 percent in 2020 due to the pandemic, compared to the growth of 0.8 percent. cent experienced in the domestic market.

This was highlighted this Friday by Patrici Tixis, president of the Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE), at the press conference in which the International Book Fair was presented in which 300 companies from 10 countries will participate -Germany , Cyprus, Cuba, United Arab Emirates, Spain, United States, Russian Federation, Italy, Mexico and Republic of Korea.

It is the 39th edition of this international fair that, says the organization, “will show the vitality of a sector, that of the Spanish book, which in this exceptional time has seen the number of readers grow to an all-time high in Spain, especially during confinement. just as it has increased its billing “.

And it is that while sales outside the Spanish borders fell by 26 percent in 2020, to 374.6 million euros, turnover in the domestic market increased by 0.8 percent, to 2,439.93 million euros.

“Events such as LIBER are an unbeatable opportunity to recover our export position, which had been very dynamic in the last decade, and to consolidate the growth experienced in the domestic market,” Tixis pointed out.

Of the export figures, 86.3 percent, that is, 323.51 million, corresponded to books from the publishing sector, while 13.7 percent, (51.18 million euros) were exports from the printing sector .