Italy: value market share of book industry in 2016, by genre
This statistic illustrates the value market share of the main book genres published in Italy in 2016. According to the study results, fiction books had about 35 percent of the book market, while Young Adult and children's literature made up about 16 percent of the total sales revenues in 2016. By contrast, practical and specialized nonfiction generated about 14.5 and 15.5 percent of the book market revenues, respectively.