The data describes the market share of book sales value in Italy in 2017, ranked by book genre. Foreign and Italian fiction throughout the considered year was the sector with the highest value percentage: 38%. Books for children and teenagers follow with a sales share of 18.7 percent, while general non-fiction represented 16.5% of the whole book sales.
Fiction | 38 |
Children and teenagers | 18.7 |
Non-fiction | 16.5 |
Manuals and handbooks | 13.4 |
Academic non-fiction | 13.4 |