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Publishing production. Titles published. By types of publication. Provinces

Publishing production. Books and pamphlets. Titles and copies published. Provinces 2009
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Titles 19,266 642 457 506 20,871 74,521 28.0
Books 16,750 503 372 424 18,049 65,213 27.7
Booklets 2,516 139 85 82 2,822 9,308 30.3
Copies (Thousands) 74,314 1,210 519 578 76,621 183,866 41.7
Books 66,248 859 376 496 67,979 162,484 41.8
Booklets 8,066 351 143 82 8,642 21,382 40.4
Source: INE.
Note: Does not include publications for advertising purposes, of an ephemeral nature, musical work or cartography.

Last update: April 19, 2010.

Methodological note

Methodological aspects

The statistics on Book publishing production statistic produced by the Spanish Ministry of Culture together with INE covers the non-periodical print publications published in Spain and made available to the public, except for the following publications:

  • Published with advertising purposes, catalogues, brochures, etc.
  • Publications ephemerality: schedules, rates, show guides, statutes, etc.
  • Musical works (sheet music) and the cartographic production, except atlases.

The units of analysis are books and booklets.

With the entry into force of Law 23/2011 of 29 July on Legal Deposit, a change of adaptation for the publications is introduced, which is based on the new role that is attributed to the editor.

The presence of the editor as principal applicant subject (not the printer as before the Act).

This implies a change in the field of statistics going exclusively to publications published in Spain regardless of where they were printed (in previous research focused on the set of printed publications in Spain even coming from foreign publishers).

In 2012, due to adaptation to the methodological changes of the statistics, information about reprints, copies, and consequently, medium production volumes is not included.

The variable "Others" includes titles published in two or more languages/dialects from Spain, as well as in other foreign languages.