This year’s Piu’ Libri Piu’ Liberi (PLPL) set the record with over 115,000 attendees between public and professional visitors over the four-day event. PLPL, organized by the Association of Italian Publishers (AIE) was held at the Nuvola convention center in Rome. With both Italian and international presence, the fair had 600 exhibitors — all small-to-medium sized Italian publishers. Lorenzo Armando, president of the AIE … Continued
Small- and medium-sized publishers make up 50.1 percent of the Italian book market, reports AIE at today’s Più Libri Più Liberi opening. At the opening of Rome’s annual book fair, Più libri più liberi, the Association of Italian Publishers (Associazione Italiana Editori, AIE) is reporting that the share of the Italian trade industry held by small- and medium-sized publishers remains “stable” in 2023 at 50.1 percent of the … Continued
Since 2002, Piu’ Libri Piu’ Liberi (PLPL) has been the national fair dedicated to the small and medium-sized publishers of Italy. PLPL is promoted and organized by the Italian Publishers Association (AIE) and held in Rome every December. Since 2017, the event has been held at the capital’s new convention center, La Nuvola, designed by renowned architect Massimiliano Fuksas. PLPL is Italy’s first fair … Continued
ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Annual Convention and World Languages Expo 2023 is opening in Chicago on Friday, November 17th in Chicago. Stop by the Italian Trade Agency booth #3823 at McCormick Place West. ACTFL runs from November 17 through November 19. At the Italian pavilion, the following Italian companies will be exhibiting at ACTFL this year: Accademia Italiana Salerno … Continued
The Frankfurter Buchmesse ‘Guest Scroll’ has been handed from Slovenia to Italy as Frankfurt Book Fair closes its 75th edition. In the closing hours of the 75th Frankfurter Buchmesse on Sunday afternoon (October 22), the traditional guest of honor handover ceremony featured Slovenia passing the bespoke “Guest Scroll” used on this occasion every year to Guest of Honor Italy for 2024. Participants in the ceremony included Katja Stergar, director of … Continued
With Più Libri Più Liberi, the Rome Small and Medium Publishers Book Fair organized by AIE (Assoc. degli Editori Italiani), the PLPL Business Centre returns for this coming December 6th to the 8th. The PLPL Business Centre is a 500-square-meter area, for the exclusive use of publishing professionals, where companies in the book supply chain can meet and talk with exhibiting publishers. Increasing your … Continued
Torino’s 35th international book fair with its professional program and rights center, succeeded amid torrential rains, flooding. Concluding its 2023 run on Monday, the Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino reports that its five consecutive days of extraordinary rains didn’t prevent it from breaking its attendance records. As you may know, a reported 23,000 people are still not back in their homes, following extraordinarily … Continued
Fifty authors are among the Italian delegation being readied for Italy’s guest-of-honor turn at April’s Salon du Livre de Paris. Before Frankfurt 2024, Italy is Guest of Honor in Paris Yes, that’s a red Vespa speeding past the Eiffel Tower. And midway through April in Paris, this and more Passions Italiennes will be on display at the Festival du Livre de Paris welcomes Italy as its pays invité, … Continued
Among the many events of the packed opening day here at Bologna Children’s Book Fair, a presentation from Ricardo Franco Levi and the team at the Association of Italian Publishers (Associazione Italiana Editori, AIE) included facts and figures on the robust children’s book market in our host country, Italy. So strong is the trade-visitor turnout this year that at times getting through the halls … Continued
The 2023 Bologna Ragazzi Awards attracted 2,349 titles entered by 644 publishers in 59 international book publishing markets. Following up on coverage earlier this month of the 60th-anniversary Bologna Children’s Book Fair‘s (March 6 to 9) Illustrators Exhibition competition, we have the results of another of this trade show’s major competitions, the Bologna Ragazzi Award program—now in its 56th edition. This year, the award … Continued
