From Publishing Perspectives:

Spain's E-book Business Stuck in Beta
By Emily Williams


MADRID: Last week, the inaugural Feria del Libro Digital-Spain's first e-book fair-took a few toddling steps into the future. Described by its organizers as "Version 0.0," the fair's two days of panels, exhibits and workshops elicited decidedly mixed reviews. While many were pleased that it provided a showcase for the digital companies that had been shut out of Madrid's traditional book fair, Liber, held earlier this year, others complained of disorganization, limited offerings and round tables with too many speakers and too much product placement in lieu of real discussion and debate.
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Bonus Material: Is Spain's Piracy Complex Legit?
By Emily Williams

It's accepted as common knowledge in Spain that the country has possibly the worst case of digital piracy in Europe and Spaniards may even be among the worst offenders in the world. Andreu Teixidor, former president of Destino, a division of Planeta, and a panelist on Digital Publishing at the recent Feria del Libro Digital, called the lack of protection for intellectual property "shameful" and further stated that Spain is second in the world in digital piracy after China.
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