Despite a 4.2-percent drop in book sales in 2022, Italy’s industry sees a 14.7-percent gain over the same period of 2019. Although the Italian book publishing market has registered a 2022 first-half step-back of 4.2 percent in book sales and 3.6 percent unit volume, the comparison with 2019’s first-half performance is good, running 14.7 percent ahead of 2019 in sales and 14.5 percent ahead … Continued
# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Il caso Alaska Sanders/ The Alaska Sanders’ Case Joël Dicker La nave di Teseo 22.00 2 It ends with us. Siamo noi a dire basta Colleen Hoover Sperling & Kupfer 15.90 3 Fabbricante di lacrime / Maker of Tears Erin Doom Magazzini Salani 15.90 4 Il rosmarino non capisce l’inverno / Rosemary Doesn’t Understand Winter Matteo Bussola Einaudi … Continued
Amid a jump in university students needing accessible learning aids, Italy’s publishers have collaborated in a special conference. In a sobering assessment, it was reported (June 15th) that Italy’s university student population has seen a sharp growth in specific learning disabilities such as dyslexia and more general disabilities that can affect learning, such as visual impairments and full blindness. Today the number of Italy’s … Continued
# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Il caso Alaska Sanders/ The Alaska Sanders’ Case Joël Dicker La nave di Teseo 22.00 2 Fabbricante di lacrime / Maker of Tears Erin Doom Magazzini Salani 15.90 3 It ends with us. Siamo noi a dire basta Colleen Hoover Sperling & Kupfer 15.90 4 Kaiju No. 8. Vol. 3 Naoya Matsumoto Star Comics 4.90 5 Non tutto … Continued
From Publishing Perspectives’ edition of Rights Roundup: “We’re pleased to start with something we don’t get frequently enough: A well-researched, deeply informed look at the place that Paestum, on the southern west coast of Italy, holds not only in archaeology but also in ancient cultural diversity. The German-Italian researcher and Gabriel Zuchtriegel–now Rome’s director of the Pompeii site–studied at Humboldt in Berlin and the … Continued
# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Il caso Alaska Sanders / The Alaska Sanders Case Joël Dicker La nave di Teseo 22.00 2 La carrozza della Santa / The Saint’s Carriage Cristina Cassar Scalia Einaudi 18.00 3 Fabbricante di lacrime/Maker of Tears Erin Doom Magazzini Salani 15.90 4 I miei giorni alla libreria Morisaki / Days at the Morisaki Bookshop Satoshi Yagisawa Feltrinelli 16.00 … Continued
Italians listen to more and more audio books: Umberto Eco, JK Rowling and Elena Ferrante are among the favorites on Audible. The audiobook audience in Italy continues to grow: according to a NielsenIQ research commissioned by Audible, Amazon’s audio content platform, there are 10 million audiobook users in Italy , up 11% compared to the 9 million registered in October, 2022 (according to estimates … Continued
# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Il caso Alaska Sanders/The Alaska Sanders’ Case Joël Dicker La nave di Teseo 22.00 2 La carrozza della Santa/ The Saint’s Carriage Cristina Cassar Scalia Einaudi 18.00 3 Fabbricante di lacrime / Maker of Tears Erin Doom Magazzini Salani 15.90 4 La coscienza di Montalbano / Montalbano’s Conscience Andrea Camilleri Sellerio Editore Palermo 14.00 5 Come vento cucito … Continued
The Gianna e Roberto Denti Award, sponsored by the Associazione Italiana Editori (AIE – Italian Association of Publishers) and the children’s magazine Andersen, has been awarded to the bookstore “Farollo e Falpalà” of Florence. Established in 2013 as a family and neighborhood bookstore from by Chiara Zeccardo and Francesco Andrea Fagnini, the bookstore bears the same name chosen by the two founders when they … Continued
# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Il caso Alaska Sanders / The Alaska Sanders’ Case Joël Dicker La nave di Teseo 22.00 2 La carrozza della Santa / The Saint’s Carriage Cristina Cassar Scalia Einaudi 18.00 3 Un volo per Sara / A Flight for Sara Maurizio De Giovanni Rizzoli 19.00 4 La coscienza di Montalbano / Montalbano’s Conscience Andrea Camilleri Sellerio Editore Palermo … Continued
