Year: 2024

Children’s Books in Italy: Pre-Bologna Statistics

Ahead of Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Italian publishers release statistics on the 2024 Frankfurt guest of honor’s children’s book sector. ‘Children’s Books: An Italian Excellence’ The Bologna Children’s Book Fair (April 8 to 11), will run again this year concomitantly with two “brand extension” programs, Bologna Licensing Trade Fair/Kids and Bologna Book Plus. In an interesting round of statistics released on February 28th by the Association … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Feb. 5 – 11, 2024

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Amore senza fine. Love me Love me/ Endless Love: Love Me Love Me (3rd in the series) Stefania S. Sperling & Kupfer 15.00 2 Tutti i particolari in cronaca / All the Details in the News Antonio Manzini Mondadori 17.50 3 Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros Sperling & Kupfer 19.90 4 Dare la vita/ To Give Life Michela Murgia … Continued

Bologna Book Plus Releases New Audio Forum Program

The Bologna Book Plus, a generalist-publishing program, offers its first ‘Audio Forum’ on April 10 during Bologna Children’s Book Fair. The upcoming Bologna Children’s Book Fair (April 8 to 11) is now three things: (a) the main fair led by Elena Pasoli; (b) a generalist (non-children’s) fair called Bologna Book Plus led by Jacks Thomas; and (c) the Bologna Licensing Trade Fair/Kids. Bologna Book Plus has added an … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Jan. 29 – Feb. 4, 2024

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros Sperling & Kupfer 19.90 2 Tutti i particolari in cronaca / All the Details in the News Antonio Manzini Mondadori 17.50 3 Dare la vita/ To Give Life Michela Murgia Rizzoli 15.00 4 Abel Alessandro Baricco Feltrinelli 17.00 5 Pesci piccoli / Small Fish Alessandro Robecchi Sellerio Editore Palermo 16.00 6 Cuore nero / … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Jan. 22 – 28, 2024

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Tutti i particolari in cronaca / All the Details in the News Antonio Manzini Mondadori 17.50 2 Dare la vita/ To Give Life Michela Murgia Rizzoli 15.00 3 Pesci piccoli / Small Fish Alessandro Robecchi Sellerio Editore Palermo 16.00 4 Cuore nero / Black Heart Silvia Avallone Rizzoli 20.00 5 La portalettere / The Postmistress Francesca Giannone Nord … Continued

Italy: Trade Book Sales Up in 2023

A new report from Italy shows the value of its consumer book market rose in 2023, despite a slight drop in overall unit sales. One of the traditions of the Scuola per Librai Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri (UEM) is a report on the final day of this “school for booksellers” set in Venice on the Italian market’s financial performance in the previous year. As … Continued

Italy: Bologna Licensing Trade Fair Announces 17th Edition

With Bologna Children’s Book Fair and its general-industry Bologna Book Plus program having begun their annual programming and marketing operations, yet another component of the annual events related to young readers in the Emilia-Romagna has announced its 17th annual edition today (January 24): The Bologna Licensing Trade Fair/Kids runs April 8 to 11. This, of course, is one of the reasons you may soon begin to feel you’re hearing about … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Jan. 15 – 21, 2024

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Dare la vita / To Give Life Michela Murgia Rizzoli 15.00 2 Tutti i particolari in cronaca / All the Details in the News Antonio Manzini Mondadori 17.50 3 Gli aghi d’oro / Gilded Needles Michael McDowell Neri Pozza 14.90 4 La portalettere / The Postmistress Francesca Giannone Nord 19.00 5 Stai zitta e altre nove frasi che … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Jan. 8 – 14, 2024

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Dare la vita / To Give Life Michela Murgia Rizzoli 15.00 2 Tutti i particolari in cronaca / All the Details in the News Antonio Manzini Mondadori 17.50 3 Tutto e’ qui per te / Everything is Here for You Fabio Volo Mondadori 19.00 4 La portalettere / The Postmistress Francesca Giannone Nord 19.00 5 Quando eravamo padroni … Continued

Storytel Italy records +20% more subscribers in 2023: here’s the ranking of the most listened-to titles

The audiobook and podcast platform Storytel – founded in Sweden in 2005, which today has more than 2 million users worldwide and a total catalog of more than 1 million titles in 40 languages – is also expanding in Italy. Italy, where it entered the market in June 2018, two years after Audible, is in fact confirmed as a strategic market for Storytel’s global … Continued

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  • The Bologna Children’s Books Fair will turn digital

    April 8

    The organizers (Ente Fiera) of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair announced on April 9th the cancellation of the 58th physical edition of the Expo, including the Licensing Trade Fair and the first Bologna BookPlus, expected for April 14 to 17 (2021) in order to stop the spreading of the Coronavirus. But the show must go on. In fact, according to Publishing Perspectives, the exhibition … Continued