Year: 2024

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

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Jan. 1 – 7, 2024

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Tutto e’ qui per te / Everything is Here for You Fabio Volo Mondadori 19.00 2 Quando eravamo padroni del mondo. Roma: l’impero infinito / When We Ruled the World. Rome: The Infinite Empire Aldo Cazullo HarperCollins Italia 19.00 3 L’educazione delle farfalle / The Education of Butterflies Donato Carrisi Longanesi 23.00 4 La portalettere / The Postmistress … Continued

Booksellers School at the Mauri Foundation: Advanced seminars returns to Venice for 2024

The Advanced Seminar of the School for Booksellers, organized by the Umberto and Elisabetta Mauri Foundation and now in its 41st edition, returns again this year in the traditional four-day event at the historic Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice. Il Giornale della Libreria, as per tradition, will be a media partner of the event. The annual seminar involving Italian and international publishers and booksellers, … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of Dec. 25 – 31, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Tutto e’ qui per te / Everything is Here for You Fabio Volo Mondadori 19.00 2 Quando eravamo padroni del mondo. Roma: l’impero infinito / When We Ruled the World. Rome: The Infinite Empire Aldo Cazullo HarperCollins Italia 19.00 3 L’educazione delle farfalle / The Education of Butterflies Donato Carrisi Longanesi 23.00 4 La portalettere / The Postmistress … 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