Italy: volume market share of book industry in 2017, by genre
This statistic illustrates the volume market share of the main book genres published in Italy in 2017. According to the study results, fiction books had nearly 40 percent of the total market, while Young Adult and children's literature made up about 23 percent of the total sales volume in 2017. By contrast, only one in ten books (10.2 percent) sold in Italy belonged to the specialized nonfiction genre.