The 40th Mauri School in Venice: 'Interpreting Change'
The Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri 'school of booksellers' returns to Venice, with a live-streamed half-day conference available on January 27.
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The Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri 'school of booksellers' returns to Venice, with a live-streamed half-day conference available on January 27.
Italy's publishers have set a Frankfurt goal of bringing rights sales of Italian books into other markets up to the level of imported titles.
At trade show Più libri più liberi, Italian Publishers Association said that Italian book business revenue was €1.268 billion for the first 11 months of 2022—down by 2.3% from 2021, but up by 12.9% from pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
In Italy, 2022 book publishing revenue is expected to be down by between a modest 1.1 and 1.8 percent as compared to 2021.
Despite a 4.2-percent drop in book sales in 2022, the publishing industry in Italy sees a 14.7-percent gain over the same period of 2019.