The 43rd annual Advanced Training Seminar at La Scuola per Librai Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri highlighted key topics facing the Italian market and how booksellers and publishers will adapt to new challenges.
International Publishers and Booksellers Discuss “Artificial Intelligence and Publishing Intelligence”
Registration is open for Scuola per Librai Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri’s Friday program “The Intelligence of Books,” streamed on Zoom and featuring a deep-dive into the Italian market for 2026, a discussion about AI, and the neuroscience behind humans and screens.
Mann, Cardi, Schumacher-Gebler Headline Frankfurt’s 2025 Publishing Perspectives Forum
Expanding to three exclusive Executive Talks, Publishing Perspectives Forum 2025 brings you leaders and issues of the moment.
James Daunt and David Shelley Head for London Book Fair
Today: Two transatlantic CEOS, James Daunt and David Shelley, keynote at London Book Fair.
Mauri School: Italy’s Book Trade Down 23.2 Million Units in 2024
The change to Italy’s ’18App’ ‘culture voucher’ reportedly cost Italy’s book business some €62.7 million, per AIE.
‘Between Eternity and Change:’ The Mauri School at Venice
The seminar of the Scuola per Librai Umberto e Elisabetta Mauri at Venice explores ‘Constants and Variables of the Publishing Profession.’
Rights Edition: FEP’s Enrico Turrin Looks at English Exports
In its opening session, the 2024 Frankfurt Rights Meeting examined the rise of English-language reading in non-English markets.
Venice’s ‘Mauri School’ Conference: ‘The New Challenges’
The conference closing the 41st rendition of the Mauri Foundation’s ‘school of booksellers’ will be a look at new issues ─ and déjà-vu.
Turkish Publishers’ ‘Freedom of Thought and Expression’ Award
The Turkish Publishers Association honors a house fighting seven cases of effective bans on books considered ‘harmful to minors.’
Italy’s Book Market Up 13.3 Percent Over 2019
Presented in Venice at the Mauri School, the 2022 report from Italy’s publishers shows gains over the pre-pandemic era, amid market shifts.