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Bologna Focus: Italy’s €283 Million Children’s Book Market

At Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the AIE and Bologna Book Plus will look at young readers’ growing place in the Italian market In the run-up to the year’s first major international book publishing industry trade shows—Elena Pasoli‘s Bologna Children’s Book Fair in its 60th edition runs March 6 to 9—the Association of Italian Publishers (Associazione Italiana Editori, AIE) has today (February 15) released several figures about Europe’s fourth … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of February 6th – 12th, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 La vita intima / A Private Life Niccolo’ Ammaniti Einaudi 19.00 2 Spare. Il minore Prince Harry Mondadori 25.00 3 Il Re del gelato / The Ice Cream King Cristina Scalia Cassar Einaudi 16.00 4 Dammi mille baci/ A Thousand Boy Kisses Tillie Cole Always Publishing 13.90 5 Mi limitavo ad amare te / I Would Only Love … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of January 30 – February 5th, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Spare. Il minore Prince Harry Mondadori 25.00 2 La vita intima / A Private Life Niccolo’ Ammaniti Einaudi 19.00 3 Dammi mille baci/ A Thousand Boy Kisses Tillie Cole Always Publishing 13.90 4 Mi limitavo ad amare te / I Would Only Love You Rosella Postorino Feltrinelli 19.00 5 La corona di ossa. Blood and Ash / The … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of January 23 – 29th, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Spare. Il minore Prince Harry Mondadori 25.00 2 La vita intima / A Private Life Niccolo’ Ammaniti Einaudi 19.00 3 Dammi mille baci/ A Thousand Boy Kisses Tillie Cole Always Publishing 13.90 4 Nient’altro che la verita’ – la mia vita al fianco di Benedetto XVI. Nothing But the Truth – My Life with Benedict XVI Georg Ganswein … Continued

Italy’s Book Market Up 13.3 Percent Over 2019

Presented in Venice at the Mauri School, the 2022 report from Italy’s publishers shows gains over the pre-pandemic era, amid market shifts. As the 40th annual Scuola per Librai Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri—the Mauri “school of booksellers”—reached its concluding conference sessions today (January 27) at the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, the Association of Italian Publishers (Associazione Italiana Editori, AIE) made its promised detailed … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of January 16 – 22nd, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Spare. Il minore Prince Harry Mondadori 25.00 2 La vita intima / A Private Life Niccolo’ Ammaniti Einaudi 19.00 3 Dammi mille baci/ A Thousand Boy Kisses Tillie Cole Always Publishing 13.90 4 Nient’altro che la verita’ – la mia vita al fianco di Benedetto XVI. Nothing But the Truth – My Life with Benedict XVI Georg Ganswein … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of January 9 – 15th, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Spare. Il minore Prince Harry Mondadori 25.00 2 It starts with us. Siamo noi l’inizio di tutto Colleen Hoover Sperling & Kupfer 16.90 3 La presidente / The President Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett Sellerio Editore Palermo 16.00 4 Le otto montagne / The Eight Mountains Paolo Cognetti Einaudi 13.00 5 Fabbricante di lacrime / Maker of Tears Erin Doom Magazzini … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of January 2 – 8th, 2023

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Le otto montagne / The Eight Mountains Paolo Cognetti Einaudi 13.00 2 Fabbricante di lacrime / Maker of Tears Erin Doom Magazzini Salani 15.90 3 Dammi mille baci / Give Me a Thousand Kisses Tillie Cole Always Publishing 13.90 4 Caminito. Un aprile del commissario Ricciardi / Caminito. An April with Commissioner Ricciardi Maurizio De Giovanni Einaudi 19.00 … Continued

Bologna Children’s Book Fair to expand rights centre to include adult publishing

Bologna Children’s Book Fair is to open up its rights centre in 2023 to include exhibiting publisher rights professionals dealing with adult book deals. At the March 2023 fair (6th-9th March) – marking the event’s 60th anniversary – the BCBF Agents Centre will include adult general trade publishing in addition to children’s for the first time. BCBF director Elena Pasoli said: “Our BCBF Agents’ … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of December 19 – December 25, 2022

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 La casa delle luci / The House of Lights Donato Carrisi Longanesi 23.00 2 Caminito. Un aprile del commissario Ricciardi / Caminito. An April with Commissioner Ricciardi Maurizio De Giovanni Einaudi 19.00 3 No sleep till Shengal Zerocalcare Bao Publishing 23.00 4 Tasmania Paolo Giordano Einaudi 19.50 5 Mussolini il capobanda/ Mussolini, the Ringleader Aldo Cazzullo Mondadori 19.00 … 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