Publishers find big market for Spanish-language books

While successful Spanish-language titles in the United States typically sell between 15,000 and 20,000 books, more than 300,000 copies of “El Codigo Da Vinci” were scooped off bookstore shelves across the land, ushering in what some described as a new era for Spanish-language books in America.

“Distributors saw the potential,” said Lucia Laratelli, president of Urano Publishing in Miami. The firm’s Barcelona, Spain-based parent company, Ediciones Urano, hit the jackpot with its purchase of the book’s Spanish publishing rights.”*

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