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Italian Publishers Explore Accessible Publishing for University Students

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

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of June 20 -26, 2022

# 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

Rights Roundup: A New Look at Southern Italy’s Ancient Paestum

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

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of June 13-19, 2022

# 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: Eco, Rowling and Ferrante are the favorites on Audible

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

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of June 6-12, 2022

# 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

Best Children’s Bookstore in Italy 2022

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

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of May 30 – June 5, 2022

# 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

Italian Publishers: Bookstores Gaining on Digital Retail Sales

Italy’s publishers see online retail receding as physical stores reassert their prominence in the market’s book sales. In its recent report on book retail, the Association of Italian Publishers (Associazione Italiana Editori, AIE) has found that online bookstores are seeing a drop in sales in Italy, while physical retail points are reasserting themselves as the market’s key outlet, accounting for sales of more than … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of May 23-29, 2022

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Il caso Alaska Sanders / The Alaska Sanders Case Joël Dicker La nave di Teseo 22.00 2 Un volo per Sara / A Flight for Sara Maurizio De Giovanni Rizzoli 19.00 3 Solo è il coraggio. Giovanni Falcone, il romanzo /Courage is Alone Roberto Saviano Bompiani 24.00 4 Delitti a Fleat House / Murders at Fleat House Lucinda … 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