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Italy: market share of book sales value 2017, by genre

Market share of book sales value in Italy in 2017, by book genre

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