At a press conference, 2024 Guest of Honor Italy previewed its Frankfurt Book Fair plans featuring 120 authors and artists. With Italy scheduled to be the guest of honor at next year’s Frankfurter Buchmesse, the country’s officials and book industry representatives have presented their plans and priorities today (October 19) to journalists and trade visitors currently at the 75th anniversary edition in a news … Continued
Today in Milan (September 28), the publisher Innocenzo Cipolletta has been elected by the Association of Italian Publishers (Associazione Italiana Editori) to succeed Ricardo Franco Levi as AIE’s president. Cipolletta was previously the president of the Confindustria Cultura Italia, the market’s powerful 5.3-million-employee collective of trade associations in manufacturing and services. Starting a term of two years, Cipolletta arrives, of course, at a time when expansive international attention is … Continued
The role of language professionals International Translation Day is meant as an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation, contributing to development and strengthening world peace and security. Transposition of a literary or scientific work, including technical work, from one language into another language, professional translation, including … Continued
Italy’s publishers are joined by their bookselling and library colleagues in an effort to make COVID-era library funding perpetual. As many of our professional world publishing readers will know, one post-pandemic issue in some markets has to do with “fading funding”—usually government allocated financial support for a cultural sector. This is normally a program of support that was made available to a given sector … Continued
A staggering 116,000 new books donated by publishers, 4,000 more than last year, are on their way to schools by the end of April thanks to #ioleggoperché, the Italian Publishers Association’s (AIE) major initiative to benefit school libraries throughout Italy. An extraordinary event with the involvement of nearly four million students, 23,240 registered schools, 250 nurseries and 3,275 libraries. With this final phase and … Continued
As part of a national initiative to promote reading among the Italian public, the Ligurian port city of Genoa has been named Italian Book Capital 2023 by the Ministry of Culture. The competition: a real page-turner Recognizing the power books and words hold, the naming of the “Italian Book Capital” — which lasts for one year — was inscribed into law on February 13, … Continued
The in-person professional visitor count at Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2023 jumped by 35 percent over 2022, organizers say. With Bologna Children’s Book Fair having closed Thursday, we have numbers today that reflect the very big crowds at the 60th edition of its operation. Organizers see the program as one in transition—its three-part design of the fair, Bologna Book Plus, and Bologna Licensing Trade … Continued
