A study by the online distributor Libranda reveals that sales of works in Spanish in electronic format rose by 6.7% in 2016. Books enclose mysteries and adventures. In their pages pirate ships sail, spaceships fly, and new theories about our lives emerge.

It makes no difference if the coffer is made of physical or virtual paper, there’s often a treasure lurking within. But digital books do not only hold mysteries; they’re mysteries themselves. Years of gurus, prophecies, figures, and conflicting realities have witnessed prognoses both of their inevitable advance and their imminent demise. For this reason, each report of significant scope, like the one just published by Libranda, the preeminent distributor of e-books in Spanish with more than 58,000 titles in stock, shines an instructive light both on the current state of affairs and on future prospects. The study, concentrating on 2016, reveals that sales of electronic books in Spanish rose some 6.7% at the global level last year.

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