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From Italy to the world: Registration is now open for the Translation conference of the Salone di Torino

If, as Susan Sontag states, “translation is the circulatory system of the world’s literatures”, translators and translators deserve the credit for introducing the lifeblood into this system, allowing it to constantly regenerate and branch out. With this viewpoint,  the “From Italian to the World” translators conference, an initiative of the Turin International Book Fair,  returns this fall to promote and support foreign translators who … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of July 11 – 17, 2022

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Spatriati / Expatriates Mario Desiati Einaudi 20.00 2 Il caso Alaska Sanders / The Alaska Sanders’ Case Joël Dicker La nave di Teseo 22.00 3 It ends with us. Siamo noi a dire basta Colleen Hoover Sperling & Kupfer 15.90 4 Fabbricante di lacrime / Maker of Tears Erin Doom Magazzini Salani 15.90 5 Il rosmarino non capisce … Continued

Giunti Editore at Comic Con International in San Diego

Giunti Editore is at Comic Con International 2022 in San Diego. Please come by the Italian Trade Agency booth #5526 to see some of our latest titles from award-winning writers and illustrators from Italy. Comic Con International: Comic Con Giunti Editore: Giunti.it #italbooks #ITAChicago #comic_con #GiuntiEditore #leggoGiunti

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of July 4 – 10, 2022

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Il caso Alaska Sanders / The Alaska Sanders’ Case Joël Dicker La nave di Teseo 22.00 2 Spatriati / Expatriates Mario Desiati Einaudi 20.00 3 It ends with us. Siamo noi a dire basta Colleen Hoover Sperling & Kupfer 15.90 4 Fabbricante di lacrime / Maker of Tears Erin Doom Magazzini Salani 15.90 5 Noi due come in … Continued

Italian Publishers: A Small Setback in January-June Sales

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

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of June 27 – July 3, 2022

# 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

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

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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