Publishing in Italy

Introduction

Publishing in Italy industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2007-11, and forecast to 2016). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Italy publishing market. Includes market size and segmentation data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

Highlights

• The publishing market consists of books, newspaper and magazines segments. The book publishing industry comprises publishers of academic, professional, general and other (fictions, non-fiction etc) books. The market value of this segment refers to the domestic B2C sales of books only at the retail sales price (RSP). The newspaper and magazine segment value is calculated as the revenues generated by publishers from B2C sales of copies of their products, and does not include advertising revenues. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2010 annual average exchange rates.
• The Italian publishing market is expected to generate total revenue of $10,523.8 million in 2011, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 0.7% between 2007 and 2011.
• Magazine sales are expected to be the most lucrative for the Italian publishing market in 2011, with total revenues of $5,193.2 million, equivalent to 49.3% of the market's overall value.
• The performance of the market is forecast to accelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 1.3% for the five-year period 2011 - 2016, which is expected to drive the market to a value of $11,211.1 million by the end of 2016.

Features

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Leading company profiles reveal details of key publishing market players’ global operations and financial performance

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Macroeconomic indicators provide insight into general trends within the Italy economy

Key Questions Answered

What was the size of the Italy publishing market by value in 2011?

What will be the size of the Italy publishing market in 2016?

What factors are affecting the strength of competition in the Italy publishing market?

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What are the main segments that make up Italy's publishing market?