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El Cabanyal in the heart of Valencia
From Friday 4 November to Wednesday 30 November 2011, the exhibition and the book WELCOME TO EL CABANYAL come to the heart of Valencia. [read more] -
Plataforma Salvem el Cabanyal and the publishing house Media Vaca welcome and invite you to visit the 13th edition of Portes Obertes, which this year opens to the public 13 (+1) traditional houses located in the neighbourhoods of Canyamelar, El Cabanyal, and Cap de França. Visitors will have the opportunity to see the exhibition… [read more] -
After a lustrum (which in Latin means ‘clean’, ‘pure’: five years of purification), we have finally updated Media Vaca’s website. It has not been an easy task. Nothing ever is, but at some point over the years we have come to believe that it is easier to make books than to upload them to the website. [read more] -
Since we are unable to manage them, we do not accept deposits, so sales must always be firm, without right of return. / There is no minimum order. We accept single items. / Orders are always by cash on delivery, unless another method is otherwise stated (transfer or bank cheque)… [read more] -
Although the publishing house is small and not widely known, we receive a large number of daily communications —especially by e-mail—, which we are unable to attend to. This message, which we would like to give the character of an open letter, is nothing more than a letter of apology… [read more] -
The book Children’s Literature from A to Z by Bernardo Atxaga (Media Vaca, 1999), illustrated by Alejandra Hidalgo, has just been reissued. The alphabet has been out of print for a few years and we have received many requests to bring it back into circulation. Although Media Vaca has among its priorities to keep the catalogue alive… [read more] -
The book we are presenting this afternoon is titled Valencia, like the city that welcomes us. It is published by Media Vaca, a small Valencian publishing house some of you may know, and its authors are the poet Bartolomé Ferrando and the photographer Rafael de Luis. [read more] -
Books are probably made to avoid speeches. And also, of course, because they last. Not all do, and the mystery of books —the greatest mystery surrounding them— is not knowing which ones will and which will not. All publishers want their books to endure, and some even go through some trouble to achieve this. [read more]
