In 2012, the publishing sector has seen several corporate movements with an increasingly significant presence of Planeta and Ramdom House.<\/p>\n
The publishing market is concentrated in 3 large companies:Planet<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>Rush,\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Random House<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The Spanish publishing market maintains three dominant operators, Planeta (with imprints such as Planeta,\u00a0Seix Barral<\/a>,\u00a0Destination<\/span>,<\/a>\u00a0Critique<\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0Ariel,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Paid\u00f3s<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Mart\u00ednez Roca\u00a0<\/span>andEspasa<\/span><\/a>and participation in the\u00a0Grup 62\u00a0<\/span><\/a>and\u00a0Tusquets<\/span><\/a>), Random House Mondadori (currently controlling\u00a0Plaza&Jan\u00e9s<\/a><\/span><\/span>,\u00a0Grijalbo<\/span><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Debate<\/a><\/span><\/span>,\u00a0Mondadori<\/span>,\u00a0Lumen<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Beascoa<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and PRISA (SAntillana\u00a0<\/a><\/span>and\u00a0ALfaguara)<\/a>). The first two groups, at present, also have common interests: they share 50%'s ownership of\u00a0Readers' Circle<\/a>are partners in the\u00a0digital distributor Libranda<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and in the as yet unfinished online project of\u00a0Nubico<\/span>together with\u00a0Telef\u00f3nica<\/a><\/span>and RTL, owned by\u00a0Bertelsmann<\/span><\/a>is a shareholder in the television station controlled by Planeta,\u00a0Antena 3.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \"The sector is also tending towards greater concentration. In April PRISA announced that it was negotiating with Random House the sale of its publishing division due to its critical financial situation, which is forcing it to sell profitable assets. Random House also bought during 2012 the 50% of its joint venture with\u00a0Mondadori\u00a0<\/span><\/span>4M and Grupo Planeta the 50% of Tusquets publishing house\", explains Diego Gutierrez, expert in corporate finance at\u00a0Abra Invest<\/a>.<\/p>\n Catalan-language publishers unite to strengthen themselves<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2012, the publishing houses merged\u00a0Angle Editorial<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>with the vallenca\u00a0Cosset\u00e0nia Edicions<\/a><\/span>\u00a0under the name of 9 Grup Editorial. The integration was the result of a collaborative process initiated in 2008 as a result of the problems shared with the distributor Arc de Ber\u00e0, one of the first victims of the crisis in the world of books in Catalan. Now, despite the decision taken, all the imprints will continue to exist and Jordi Ferrer, publisher of Cosset\u00e0nia, will take over the management of the project. The operation makes this group the second largest in terms of titles published in Catalan.<\/p>\n Also in 2012,\u00a0el Grup 62<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>increased its presence in the world of Catalan-language publishing. The group controlled by\u00a0Enciclop\u00e8dia Catalana<\/a><\/span>, Planeta andLa Caixa<\/span><\/a>\u00a0took the 50% from\u00a0<\/span>D\u00e8ria Editors. Among the titles published by D\u00e8ria are several books-interviews with political figures such as Ernest Lluch, Pasqual Maragall and Heribert Barrera. It has also published Economia liberal per a no economistes i no liberals, by the economist Xavier Sala i Mart\u00edn y Camb\u00f3, a portrait of one of the most important Catalan politicians of the early 20th century.<\/p>\n This was not Grup 62's first purchase, as in April 2011 it had already taken over the 50% from\u00a0Eumo<\/span><\/a>the publishing house promoted by the\u00a0University of Vic.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0This operation allowed it to enter the university textbook and textbook business. The operation was also channelled through a capital increaseThe amount was not disclosed.<\/p>\n Specialist publishers are also concentrating on<\/strong><\/p>\n The Canadian multinational\u00a0Thomson Reuters<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>specialising in information for companies, law firms and professionals in the legal and legal field, in 2012 incorporated the publishing company\u00a0Lex Nova<\/span><\/a>based in Valladolid.<\/p>\n