Paco Ignacio Taibo II, director of the Fund of Economic Culture (FCE), announced that the launch of a collection of books, at the scale of all of Latin America and will be called “25 for 25”, which includes 2 million and a half publications to give to young people.
At the morning conference of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo this Friday in the National Palace, the head of the FCE stressed that the collection includes authors and authors such as Mario Benedetti, Gabriel García Márquez, Eduardo Galeano, Adela Fernández and Piedad Bonett.
“With the president’s permission; and if not, I would not walk as a hocicon, I can inform you that we are preparing the scale of all Latin America of a collection that will be called ’25 for 25`, which will give to young people: 2 and a half million books in Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela, Chile, Paraguay, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico,” he said.
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He added that this project is coordinated with editorials and state governments to make a simultaneous launch of these 2 and a half million books at the end of the year.
“It is the biggest project to promote reading, and has a very clear object: the object is to make young people and adolescents read for pleasure, to discover the pleasure of reading,” said Paco Ignacio Taibo.
He mentioned that it is a “very varied” collection that includes texts from the Latin American boom “and a little later.”
By pointing out that the heart of the Economic Culture Fund is the book, Taibo reported that from 2019 to date there have been 21 million books and sold 24 million in the country, in addition to maintaining and promoted the existence of the historical catalog of 15 thousand titles.
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He commented that more than 2 million books have produced in Mexico and more than 6 million have been sold, taking into account books from other publishers.
He stressed that new literary genres were incorporated 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.”
“We had discovered that the price of the book was a fundamental obstacle to the promotion of reading, that the adolescent who scratched his pocket trying to get the money to buy the book he wanted did not arrive, he could not.
“We managed to go down with these growing runs, increase in circulating new distribution networks, decrease in production costs, and we managed to lower the price of the books that the fund produced in a substantive way,” he said.
In the Treasury Hall, Sheinbaum and Paco Ignacio Taibo II shared what their favorite books are.
“Obviously 100 years of Soledad (Gabriel García Márquez) and in the scientific to Thomas Khun, scientific revolutions, paradigm shift,” said the president.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II commented that his favorite book is “Spartaco”, by Howard Fast, because “defined my life.”
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