Italy: foreign book rights acquisitions by Italian publishers 2014-2016
fewer book rights from foreign publishers.
This graph illustrates the distribution of foreign book rights acquisitions by Italian publishing houses from 2014 to 2016, by company size. According to the study, the share of acquisitions by small publishers grew by over 6 percentage points in the space of a year, increasing from 39.4 percent of total acquisitions in 2015 to 45.9 percent in 2016. By contrast, in the same time frame large publishing groups bought