Editorial La Catedra

What Editorial La Catedra does

Editorial La Cátedra is a privately-held, small-scale Spanish publishing house based in Bilbao that operates in two narrow verticals: tauromaquia (bullfighting literature) and hospitality/hotel management for the 21st century. The catalog is organized into four sub-brands: Cátedra Taurina (general bullfighting history), Tauromaquia Vasca (Basque bullfighting), Cátedra Bilbaína (Bilbao's cultural heritage), and Cátedra Hotelera (hospitality and tourism). Antonio Fernández Casado is the dominant author, contributing across both the tauromaquia and hospitality collections, including "Manual Práctico de Dirección de Hoteles, Marketing y Ventas Online del Siglo XXI" (2nd edition), "Guía histórica de fondas, posadas, hoteles, restaurantes, tabernas y chacolís de Bilbao," and multiple titles on Basque bullrings and toreros.

The company makes money exclusively through one-time book sales (physical and digital) with no subscription, licensing, or services revenue. Distribution is multi-channel: Amazon.es marketplace, the publisher's own editorialacatedra.com website with email-based ordering, and wholesale supply to specialized bookstores through a dedicated ordering system. Marketing is minimal — website content, a Facebook page, and email newsletter — consistent with a publisher of niche, interest-driven titles. There is no proprietary technology platform, no mobile app, no API, and no disclosed corporate structure, headcount, or management team. Copyright notices reference 2023 as the most current operating year, and six additional titles are listed as "in preparation," indicating ongoing but likely low-volume publishing activity.

Name

Editorial La Catedra

Legal name

Editorial La Cátedra

Website

https://editorialacatedra.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Editorial La Cátedra is a privately-held Bilbao-based Spanish publisher specializing in niche books on bullfighting culture (particularly Basque taurine history) and 21st-century hospitality management, selling via Amazon.es, its own website, and specialized bookstores.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Specialty Book Publishing

NAICS

Book Publishers (513130), Book Publishers (51313)

SIC

Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro primary industry

Genre & Category Publishing (Romance, Mystery/Thriller, Sci‑Fi/Fantasy, etc.) (MPAJAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Humor, Gift & Specialty Format Books (Journals, Coloring, etc.) (MPAJAAAN)

Keywords

• Specialized book publishing
• Tauromaquia literature
• Hospitality management books
• Basque cultural publishing
• Niche editorial collections

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Book Sales (Physical and Digital): One-time purchase revenue from selling published books in both physical (paper) and digital formats. Books are sold individually through Amazon marketplace, their own website, and specialized bookstores.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Editorial La Cátedra is an independent Spanish publishing house that produces and sells specialized books in physical and digital formats across four collections: Cátedra Taurina (bullfighting/tauriomaquia), Tauromaquia Vasca (Basque bullfighting history), Cátedra Bilbaína (Bilbao cultural heritage), and Cátedra Hotelera (hospitality and hotel management for the 21st century). The books are sold individually to readers through Amazon.es, the company's own website, and wholesale orders to specialized bookstores.

Product overview

Editorial La Cátedra is a traditional book publishing company specializing in two main collections: Cátedra Taurina (bullfighting and taurismaquia) and Cátedra Hotelera (hospitality, hotel management, and tourism). The company publishes physical and digital books through the La Cátedra Taurina collection (covering Basque taurine history), La Cátedra Bilbaina collection (Bilbao's cultural heritage), and La Cátedra Hotelera collection (practical hospitality guides and historical hotel studies). Books are sold through Amazon, direct email orders, and specialized bookstores.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Cátedra Taurina: Book collection focused on tauriomaquia (bullfighting) covering topics including Basque bullfighting history, toreros, and corrida events
• Cátedra Hotelera
• Cátedra Taurina
• Cátedra Bilbaína
• Colección Tauromaquia Vasca

Products and services

• Manual Práctico de Dirección de Hoteles, Marketing y Ventas Online del Siglo XXI A practical handbook on hotel management and online marketing and sales for the 21st century, authored by Antonio Fernández Casado with a foreword by Antonio Briones Díaz. It targets hotel managers and hospitality professionals.
• Grand Hôtel de Paris Apple Store A historical account of 150 years of social life at the Grand Hôtel de Paris in Madrid (1864-2015), documenting significant Spanish historical events at the hotel up to its conversion into an Apple Store.
• Hospitales de sangre o cuarteles A guide to hotels during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), featuring accounts from writers including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and Martha Gellhorn.
• Guía histórica de fondas, posadas, hoteles, restaurantes, tabernas y chacolís de Bilbao A historical guide to inns, taverns, hotels, restaurants, and traditional cider houses of Bilbao, authored by Antonio Fernández Casado.
• Bilbao. Leyenda de Oro y Hierro A collection of articles by Ramiro de Maeztu from 1901 documenting Bilbao's economic prosperity and industrial development.
• Dr. Jacinto Segovia Caballero Biography of Dr. Jacinto Segovia Caballero, bullring surgeon of Madrid, socialist activist, and exile in Mexico, written by Antonio Fernández Casado.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Alianza Editorial: Major Spanish trade publisher with deep cultural and historical backlist. While broader than La Cátedra, it competes for shelf space in specialty bookstores and for niche cultural readers in the same Amazon.es category.
• Editorial Crítica: Spanish imprint under Planeta focused on history, biography, and intellectual non-fiction. Much larger than La Cátedra and broader in scope, but directly competes for the same culturally engaged Spanish readers on Amazon and in librerías especializadas.

Direct peers

• Editorial Renacimiento: Seville-based Spanish independent publisher of cultural, literary, and historical specialty titles. Operates in the same small-publisher, niche-cultural niche as Editorial La Cátedra and reaches readers through similar Spanish bookstore and Amazon channels.
• Turner Publicaciones: Spanish specialty publisher of narrative non-fiction, history, and cultural essays. Comparable to La Cátedra in subject-matter overlap (Spanish history and culture) and in serving enthusiast readerships via traditional Spanish retail channels.
• Editorial Paidotribo: Spanish specialty publisher of professional and technical titles (sports, health, and applied disciplines). Comparable to La Cátedra as a small Spanish house publishing applied/professional manuals (analogous to La Cátedra's hotel-management manual) for specialized professional readers.
• Ediciones Siruela: Independent Spanish trade publisher focused on literary, cultural, and specialty non-fiction titles for niche enthusiast audiences. Comparable in scale and editorial positioning to Editorial La Cátedra's role as a small, thematically focused Spanish publisher.
• Maeva Ediciones: Independent Spanish publisher specializing in narrative non-fiction, biography, and cultural history. Comparable in format and audience targeting for popular historical and cultural specialty books.
• Editorial Taurus: Spanish imprint within Penguin Random House focused on history, biography, and cultural non-fiction. Overlaps with La Cátedra's history/biography titles (e.g., biographies of toreros and historical figures) but at a much larger scale and broader subject scope.
• Editorial Pre-Textos: Spanish specialty trade publisher known for literary and cultural non-fiction and poetry. Comparable as a small Spanish house publishing curated cultural and intellectual content for dedicated readerships.
• Ediciones del Bronce: Spanish specialty trade imprint publishing narrative non-fiction, biography, and cultural subjects. Operates at a similar small-house scale with curated backlist titles distributed through Spanish bookstores and Amazon.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/EditorialLaCatedra
• Xx.com/andonimonterrey

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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