Italy: book rights sales to foreign publishers 2007-2016, by macro-region
This statistic illustrates the distribution of book rights sales by Italian publishing houses in 2007 and 2016, broken down by macro-region. In 2007, about 76 percent of publication rights were sold to European publishers, while sales to Asian publishers amounted to 11.5 percent of the total. In 2016, book rights sales to extra-EU countries increased significantly, for instance sales to Middle East publishers almost tripled, reaching 4.3 percent