Italy: value market share of book industry in 2017, by genre
This statistic illustrates the value market share of the main book genres published in Italy in 2017. According to the study results, fiction books had about 37 percent of the total market, while Young Adult and children's literature made up about 17 percent of the total sales revenues in 2017. By contrast, practical and specialized nonfiction generated about 15 percent of the book market revenues.