The publishing giant Random House, with more than 250 publishing houses spread over the 5 continents, finally closed the purchase of Editions B, for a total of 40 million. In this way, Ediciones B ceases to belong to the Zeta group to which it belonged until now.
What does this mean? That our dear "Mortadelo and Filemon" or the famous "Superlópez" They are no longer Spanish, although they were originally, of course ... Ediciones B had a great presence not only in Spain but also in the Latin American market, highlighting its fiction and non-fiction, children's, youth, illustrated books and historical comics for adults. Currently, its catalog also includes names from current literature such as Patricia Cornwell, PD James, Brandon Sanderson. Sarah Lark, John Katzenbach, Bernardo Stamateas, Deepak Chopra, Anne Rice or David Baldacci.
As published by the publisher Penguin Random House, Nuria Cabuti Brull, who until now held the position of CEO general director of Ediciones B, will continue in his position together with the until now also general director of Ediciones B, Roman de Vicente. They have also confirmed that there will be approximately 2.000 books per year, a very good figure considering the current book market.
Little by little, Random House is taking over a large part of the literary market. Let us remember that already in 2014 it took over the power of Alfaguara which at that time belonged to the Prisa group, for whom it paid a whopping 72 million euros. This currently leaves two major publishers in opposition to each other as far as our country is concerned: Spain. On the one hand there would be this publishing giant of Random House and on the other Planet Group, well known by all.
On the other hand, what will happen to the Zeta group now? This will focus primarily on your journalistic assets. Zeta currently has 'El Periódico de Catalunya', 'Interviú', 'Sport', 'Cuore' and 'Weather'. In the mouth of Antonio Asensio Mosbah, president of Grupo Zeta:
"We are at a time - he specified - in which enormous efforts are required to address the process of digital transformation of the media and maintain the quality and prestige of our brands and headers." Ediciones B remains in the hands of one of the best publishers in the world. It is very relevant to have reached this agreement with Penguin Random House. Ediciones B remains in the hands of one of the best publishers in the world, which is a total guarantee to continue its successful projection. "
We hope that the change is for the better as far as the literary world is concerned.