Italy: percentage change in book sales volume 2016-2017, by genre
This statistic illustrates the percentage change in sales volume of the book publishing industry in Italy between 2016 and 2017, broken down by genre. According to the study results, general nonfiction book sales went down by over 11 percent in the selected period, while the sales volume of specialized nonfiction decreased by 3.4 percent. Only sales in Young Adult and children's literature increased modestly, by some 0.5 percent.