Identity and Traits of Colombian Independent Publishers. Analysis of the 2019 Characterization Survey

Abstract

This article presents a first analysis of the results of the application of the “Encuesta de caracterización de editoriales independientes de Colombia 2019”, designed by the Observatorio Editorial Colombiano (entity attached to the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Colombia). This survey was completed towards the end of 2020 by 62 of the 95 independent Colombian publishers belonging to the Comité de Editoriales Independientes of the Cámara Colombiana del Libro. In this article we have wanted to direct our gaze towards certain aspects (identity, production, commercialization) that account for the current configuration and operation of a significant sample of Colombian independent publishers, to outline some generalities that, in the light of a bibliographic review on the independent, allow to characterize this segment of the publishing sector of the country.