Books and eBooks about Spain – in English
May 11, 2013
The R&A donate 150th anniversary flag to MND Charity Event Thanks to Neil White, whose mother also died of Motor Neurone Disease, The R&A have very kindly donated the flag from the 8th green used at the 150th anniversary of the Open at St Andrews in Scotland for auction at the 5th Spence Clarke Charity Golf event to be held on 18 May at San Roque Golf...
The origins of World Book Day The idea for World Book Day originated in Catalonia where, on 23rd April – Saint George’s Day (St Jordi) – a rose is traditionally given as a gift for each book sold. The 23rd April is recognised as being the birthday of William Shakespeare – it also the date on which he died. April 23rd was designated World...
Mar 11, 2013
Publishers’ support for independent bookshops – the Books4Spain experience By Rod Younger, Managing Director of www.Books4Spain.com 17 March 2013 Given the debate about what support publishers can give independent bookshops, I would like to give our experience in this regard. A year ago we launched Books4Spain, an exclusively online bookshop specialising in...
Feb 2, 2013
Kindle books from Books4Spain! We at Books4Spain are not believers in DRM on eBooks and we also believe that Amazon abuses its virtual monopoly as the largest online bookshop in number of ways which are not immediately obvious to the end consumer. One of these is the monopoly it has on the DRM technology for its Kindle ebooks which forces those publishers...
Lorca’s last love letter It has always been a mystery as to why Federico Garica Lorca did not flee Spain as the Civil War erupted and it was clear he would be a target for Franco sympathisers. This extract of an article in El Pais English language edition dated 16 May 2012 may help to explain the mystery. Seemingly indifferent to the terrible...
Feb 1, 2013
Amazon.com – ‘Earth’s Biggest Bookstore’ A Case Study on Amazon in: The Supply Chains of Electronic Commerce – a bestselling Financial Times Management Report by Rod Younger in 1999 Amazon.com (“Amazon“), originally launched in July 1995 as an Internet-based bookseller, has more recently expanded to offer more than 4.7 million music...
Feb 1, 2013
A potted history of Catalonia from middle ages to early 20th Century Rod Younger discusses the history of Catalonia with Selina MacKenzie of Talk Radio Europe and explains why he thinks the Catalans have such a strong nationalist streak after regularly having its powers emasculated by the central authorities in Madrid, from Ferdinand & Isabel to Philip V...
Jan 31, 2013
Catalonian independence – a historical perspective Today’s (October 2012) Catalan crisis is evolving at a rate that the principal actors are in danger of losing control. Initially the Catalan regional government sought to use the financial crisis to ask for fiscal autonomy – the right to raise their own taxes similar to the Basque region. Raising taxes...
