Italy: number of food and drink sold book copies 2010-2016, by category
This statistic shows the annual sales volume of food and drink books in Italy from 2008 to 2016, broken down by segment. According to the study, book sales in the general food and drink segment gradually decreased from 1,598 thousand copies in 2010 to 780 thousand copies in 2016. By contrast, sales of vegetarian cookbooks showed a growth trend until 2015: in 2010 they stood at 39 thousand copies and reached 126 thousand copies sold in 2015.