The Association of Italian Publishers participates in Monday’s Bologna Book Plus conference as well as events on accessibility, translation, and the publishers of the year awards.
Students at Lucca’s Palazzo Pretorio. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Ross Helen
Kids’ Books in Italy Were Down Only 1.3 Percent
With Bologna Children’s Book Fair having its formal opening on Monday (June 14), the president of the Association of Italian Publishers (
Associazione Italiana Editori, AIE) in Milan has provided us with a look at sales in the children’s and YA sectors in light of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the data sent to us by Ricardo Franco Levi–the association’s president and vice-president of the Federation of European Publishers–Italian children’s publishing in 2020 in Italy suffered “a small setback,” with a sales of €244.7 million (US$298 million), down by just 1.3 percent.