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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

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of May 16-22, 2022

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Il mostro. Inchieste, scandali e dossier. Come provano a distruggerti l’immagine/ The Monster: Investigations, Scandals and Reports. Matteo Renzi Piemme 17,90 2 Poesie da spiaggia / Beach Poetry Jovanotti (cur.); N. Crocetti (cur.) Crocetti 15,00 3 Solo è il coraggio. Giovanni Falcone, il romanzo / Courage is Alone Roberto Saviano Bompiani 24,00 4 Rancore / Resentment Gianrico Carofiglio … Continued

US Book Show Opens: May 23 – 26th

The US BOOK SHOW 2022 digital fair (www.usbookshow.com), one of the most important North American trade fairs dedicated to publishing, opens today and will end on May 26th. The US Book Show has replaced BookExpo, a historic trade fair that was held annually in New York by ReedPop, Publishers Weekly and others. The new event is sponsored exclusively by Publishers Weekly magazine (PW) who … Continued

Italian Publishers: A 2.5-Percent Slip in Volume Through April

May 12, 2022 From Milan, the Association of Italian Publishers (Associazione Italiana Editori, AIE) is reporting relatively mild downturns both in units sold and in value across the first four months of the year. In physical and online retail points as well as in large-scale distribution, the association says, sales were down by 3.7 percent in value and 2.5 percent in number of units, … Continued

Top Ten Bestsellers in Italy, week of May 2-8, 2022

# Title Author Publisher Price/Euro 1 Solo è il coraggio. Giovanni Falcone, il romanzo / Courage is Alone Roberto Saviano Bompiani 24.00 2 Rancore / Resentment Gianrico Carofiglio Einaudi 18.50 3 Fabbricante di lacrime / Maker of Tears Erin Doom Magazzini Salani 15.90 4 Le storie da brivido / Chilling Tales Lyon Magazzini Salani 16.80 5 Una storia. Autobiografia / One Story. An Autobiography … 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