From 2019 to date, the Economic Culture Fund (FCE) has produced 21 million books and sold 24 million -which include other publishers -, its general director, Paco Ignacio Taibo II reported.
We promote the existence of a historical catalog of 15 thousand titles “which held thousands of readers of the American University World, and highlighted the creation of winds of the town to generate books with costs of 11 to 20 pesos, of which 3 million copies have been sold“ and increases ”.
He defined it as “a fan collection, which allows an intelligent teenager to read, but extremely popular.” He explained that to define the price they considered the range of half -cake at a school of Bachilleres. “In such a way that whoever bought a book lost half a cake, and repurchased it the next day.”
In the morning of President Claudia Sheinbaum, she indicated that the popular collection has published 207 titles in the last six years and distributed and sold 792 thousand copies, with prices between 100 and 200 pesos.
In addition, with collections such as the shore of the wind, child and youth, science for all, with the breviarians “we strengthen in this ideal of the new FCE, the low -quality collections and high quality.”
He added that they incorporated new genres that “were not in the background, absurdly: graphic novel, police literature, science fiction, fantastic literature, historical novel and all this looking for a policy of lowering the price of the book, which was a fundamental obstacle to the production of reading.”
With this we achieved, he said, increased ruling, new distribution networks, decrease in production costs and “lower the price of the books that the fund has produced in a substantive way.” He indicated that the FCE 10 books package can cost a third of a dozen competition.
Taibo II also commented that from 2019 to date, the subsidiaries of the Economic Culture Fund abroad have produced more than 2 million books and more than 6 million have been sold -considering texts from other publishers.
He also explained that the Bundo Educa bookstore network was strengthened and now there are 209, 27 abroad without already being deficient and minilibrerías were created in 45 ISSSTE stores. The year participated in one hundred book fairs in the Mexican Republic and 103 abroad.
In the same way, they have performed 218 lying in universities and developed a network of moving librobuses. “At the moment, five in composure because it is a network that was very deteriorated by the passage of time, and soon a new one will enter -which will be called sovereignty -, the product of a assignment that RTP made to us of seven of buses that we are adapting.”
He also explained that from 2019 to date, one million 131 thousand readers have risen to a librobus in schools, in communities, in urban and suburban networks.
He commented that the community interaction that is achieved is very powerful. “It was exciting to see in Baja California, in a day laborers, when the children could buy the first book, they had made a piggy for a month and a half, and with that it gave them for a book of 10 pesos.”
The historian said they created an information network that did not exist. “In the absence of resources, dissemination, we begin to build programs on books with two characteristics: that were fun, enjoyable, and trying to have five television problems and five radio: the library mythote, read an adventure, book that bricks, does not bite …”
