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In Latin America over the past two decades self-help texts have grown in both production and circulation, making self-help one of the most popular book genres across the region. Self-help texts amount to between 13 and 20 per cent of the books sold in the bigger Latin American countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela and Peru (Souroujón, 2009). Self-help books are notably popular in the region. As indicated in Chapter 3, the national publisher’s chamber of commerce in Mexico has found that between 3.5 and 4.5 million self-help books were sold annually in Mexico between 2005 and 2011; similar trends pointing to an increased circulation of self-help books have also been identified in other nations in the region1 (Camara Nacional de la Industria Editorial Mexicana, 2013; Papalini, 2010).
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© 2016 Daniel Nehring, Emmanuel Alvarado, Eric C. Hendriks and Dylan Kerrigan
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Nehring, D., Alvarado, E., Hendriks, E.C., Kerrigan, D. (2016). Cultural Struggles, Intimate Life and Transnational Narratives. In: Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230370869_6
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