Italy reports quieter book market in first quarter of 2022

In February 2023, the business climate in the German printing and media sector improved the fourth month in a row. However, according to the bvdm business telegram, due to slightly lower business expectations, the upward trend was less pronounced. The business climate index calculated by the German Printing and Media...

After a record year in 2021, the Italian book market has been on a downtrend again since the start of 2022. In the first half of the year, publishers sold 4 per cent less printed copies of non-fiction and fiction books via bricks-and-mortar stores and online shops compared to the same period of 2021. Sales were also...

European printing industry association Intergraf is calling for improvements to the regulation that came into force in France on 1 January 2023, which severely restricts the permissible content of mineral oil components in printing inks. In a public statement, Intergraf says that the thresholds are over-ambitious, that...