Photo… ParentingFirstCry . In his weekly round up at Publishing Perspectives Carlo Carrhena reports on a study comparing purchasing power of salaries in various countries, as measured by book purchasing power. “In its newsletter, Proyecto451 reports on a just-published study: The Book and the Salary: Purchasing Power and Access to Books in the Main Publishing Markets of Europe and the Americas (originally in Spanish), finding a sharp divide in book affordability between Europe and Latin America. Based on average wages and print book prices, the report says a European worker can buy 167 books with a monthly salary on average, rising to 252 in the U.K., while the Latin American average is 45, with Argentina ranking highest and Mexico lowest. Even Portugal, the least accessible European market surveyed at 90 books per salary, remains ahead of every Latin American market analyzed. Proyecto451 also notes that fixed pricing does not necessarily improve access, and that in Mexico, where the…
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