After the COVID-19 pandemic that overturned the whole world, book sector He trembled at the uncertain sight before him as the news began to freeze, fearing the worst. However, thanks to platforms such as Amazon The book managed to overcome adversity and, on the contrary, re-enter public taste.
And, contrary to what many thought, millions of people managed to rediscover books while in isolation, or found a way to increase their reading time.
Platforms like Amazon in Spain proved to be a great help to readers who, given the limited opportunity to go to a library or bookstore, chose to receive various titles by text message or download on electronic devices such as tablets or turn on.
Although it is well known that a library or bookstore allows readers to browse through its shelves and discover titles and authors that they did not know existed, on the contrary, on Amazon it is easier to do this if you know exactly. the type of book you want.
Amazon, understanding the need of readers to explore new offers, but without getting lost in all the news that comes out every day, has launched a ranking of the most popular titles and authors of the moment so that next time you won’t be scratching your head wondering what the next title will be to read.
1. Those who don’t sleep NASH (Ancora & Delfin)
author: Dolores Redondo
2. Destroy this journal. Now in full color (Singular Books)
author: Kerry Smith
3. Networks (Invisible 2) (Ink Cloud)
author: Eloy Moreno
4. Island of the Sleeping Woman (Hispanic)
author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
5. The Superconscious Exists: Life After Life (Non-Fiction)
author: Dr. Manuel Sans Segarra
6. How to Draw Kawaii: 101 Super Monkey Drawings to Learn to Draw Step by Step (Kawaii World)
author: Happy little brain
7. Goodbye inflammation. How to Prevent Disease, Slow Aging and Lose Weight (HarperCollins) Spanish
author: Sandra Moñino
8. The Storm and the Truth (The Storm Archive 5) (Nova)
author: Brandon Sanderson
9. My Beloved Lucía – First Luminescent Limited Edition: Could I have prevented their deaths? (novel)
author: The blonde neighbor
10. Victory: Planeta Prize 2024 (Spanish and Ibero-American authors)
author: Paloma Sánchez-Garnica
*Note: Some books may not have an author because the platform does not provide it.
THE buy books on amazon All you need to do is to have an account on the said platform and then type the job title in the search engine and then click “buy”. You can add more than one item to your cart and check out later.
it the number of readers in Spain has increased gradually since the coronavirus pandemic, managing to consolidate among the youngest, according to the report 2023 Book Reading and Buying Habits Barometer presented by the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
He details that in the last 10 years the reading rate of Spaniards has increased by 5.7%. 64.8% use their free time to read; However, when it comes to comic book readers, the figure rises to 66.2 percent.
Considering only those that they read for leisure in leisure time the percentage was 64.8%, a figure slightly higher than the previous annual measurement and which reaches 66.2% when comic book readers are added.
When we make a comparison with the figures that have been recorded in the last decade, the reading rate in free time there was an increase of 5.7%; THE “frequent readers” remained at 52.5%; while those considered as “casual” They have recorded only a slight increase of 0.4 percentage points.
Although reading figures have gradually approached European averages, the report reveals that there are still significant numbers of Spaniards who never read (35.2%). In this regard, 44% indicate that the main reason is that they do not have free time; 30.6% prefer to invest their time in other types of entertainment such as walking, resting or watching movies and series; 29.3% recognized a lack of interest; and 0.9% said they had vision or health problems.
The measurement also shows that women read more than men in a proportion of 69.9% compared to 59.5%. By ageit is found that the part with the largest reading population is between 14 and 24 years old and that represents 74.2% of the total.
