he Galician Publisher's Association (Asociación Galega de Editores) is a professional body currently including
forty-five publishing houses in Galicia.
Objectives
The
AGE's aim is the defence, promotion and dissemination of the publication of books in Galician. It also works in the field of representation, management and advocacy.
Amongst our priority corporate objectives the following are to be highlighted: to define a common position of publishing houses about future book and reading acts for libraries in Galicia; to increase the stock of Galician books in public libraries; to define support policies with the Galician Ministries of Culture and Industry; to achieve acknowledgement of the administration about its historical debt to Galician books.
Structure
The General Assembly is the supreme body of the Association, which is managed, administered and represented by the Managing Board. Besides, the AGE includes several working commissions created for specific subjects such as textbooks, book promotion, AGE publications, etc.
The Managing Board of the AGE includes:
President: Alfonso García Sanmartín (Rodeira.Grupo EDEBÉ)
Vice-president: Fran Alonso (Edicións Xerais de Galicia)
Secretary: Ana Guerra (Edicións Obradoiro)
Treasurer: Pilar Sampil (Editorial Galaxia)
Members:
- Belén López (Baía Edicións)
- Francisco Macías (Edicións Positivas)
- Lucila Ventoso (Tórculo Edicións)
- Telmo Eiriz (Galinova Editorial)
Technical Department: Luz Picos
Communication: Anxela Chillón
Services
The AGE offers information and documentation
services to its members, it organises training courses, it represents publishing houses in specialised fairs and promotes Galician books.
Other interesting features
Besides, through the Galician version of this web-site you can have access to
news from the business sector and an
agenda of the presentation of new titles.
The
links to other webs of editor's associations and organizations related to books and their promotion, and reference
documents from the AGE can be accessed from our website too. If you want you can also browse Galician books in the
ISBN catalogue.
