Italy: purchase volume of children's book rights 2001-2014, by number of titles
This statistic illustrates the children's book rights purchased by Italian publishers in the period from 2001 to 2014, broken down by number of titles. According to the study, children's book rights purchases steadily decreased over the course of five years, between 2009 and 2014. While in 2009 the Italian publishing industry bought 1365 children's book titles, by 2014 the figure had fallen to 840 titles.