Publishing Eco-system: International Journal of Publishing Studies
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description: The academic and scientific journal "Publishing Eco-system: International Journal of Publishing Studies" will be a space in which to discuss different and mutually integrated aspects concerning the production, distribution, and communication of books in the various spheres of the publishing supply chain, with particular attention devoted to the mechanisms that contribute to bringing the book from the publisher to the reader, models constructed by the relationships between promoters, distributors, marketing men, librarians, and booksellers, who are increasingly protagonists of rapid changes and generators of new instances. The intention is to bring us to reflect on all this, evaluating the data not in their contingency, but in the medium/long term; to reason if and how changes have taken place; to invite the protagonists to tell how they move, choose and decide after an author's text has entered their publishing programme. The journal is open-access and peer-reviewed by Italian and international experts. Its aim is to contribute to the international and Italian debate on the main research issues, as it aims to provide elements of analysis and reflection concerning the relationships and connections, also from a diachronic perspective, between publishing, libraries, bookshops, festivals and commercial events, reading practices, in order to foster the conditions for collaboration and integration between the different subjects operating in the sector and Italian and international experts. The need was identified for a space that would explain and sediment over time reflections on, for example, the problem of returns, accessibility of books, the tools available to members of the supply chain, the difference in types of bookshops, the role of public and school libraries, promotion and communication, copyright and more. E-ISSN 2974-8682
publisher: Ledizioni
language: en
publication name: Publishing Eco-system: International Journal of Publishing Studies
issn: 2974-8682
items: Presentation
items: Would you hand over the keys to your house to an LLM?
items: Review of Fulvio Julita, 'Scrivere con l'AI. Come unire intelligenza artificale, strategia e creatività'
items: Review of Arnaldo Benini, 'Tiro sassi alla finestra di Hitler'
items: Revisiting the classics: series of adaptations for children
items: How do we read in the hypertextual infinity?
items: AI and the Book Value Chain: Do We Need a New Concept of the Core of (Quality) Publishing?
items: Book Price Dynamics, Publication Date, and Concentration in the Italian Book Market. A Descriptive Exploration of the Italian and Foreign Fiction Books, 2022-2025
items: Review of Gino Roncaglia, L'architetto e l'oracolo. Forme digitali del sapere da Wikipedia a ChatGPT
items: Sara Bignotti, Il senso del libro. Filosofia e linguaggi del marketing editoriale, Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2021
items: Libri senza barriere. Percorsi di editoria accessibile e inclusiva, Pavia: Edizioni Santa Caterina, 2024.
items: Marco Fioretti, Norme e contratti per il lavoro editoriale, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2021
items: Man, Computer, and Publishing in the 1980s: 'Digital Humanity' Between Computer Literacy and Mass Informatic Literature.
items: Reading on paper and reading on screen: the state of research
items: A New Perspective on Audibles
items: Open Access Policies in Latin America
items: The closure of the Einaudi installment network and its final historical catalog
items: The production of book market statistics in Europe:
items: Luca Valenziano, Librai e lettori fra seduzione e alleanza. Attivazione emotiva e scambio empatico nella libreria fisica Genova, Erga, 2024
items: Caroline Koegler e Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Are Books Still ‘Different’? Literature as Culture and Commodity in a Digital Age Cambridge University Press, 2023
items: Nei luoghi dell’identità: donne, fonti del sé e ‘memoria consegnata’.
items: Presentazione
items: The Comic Book in Libraries: A Dynamic Distribution Path
items: I comportamenti di acquisto di libri in una prospettiva di comparazione internazionale. Alcuni spunti da una recente pubblicazione
items: ChatGPT and Beyond
items: Sostenibilità economica e affidabilità
items: I Podcast di informazione internazionale
items: The GI pRESS experience In independent publishing in the 1960s
items: Constantino Bértolo, Una poetica editoriale, traduzione di Chiara Giordano, Milano, Ledizioni, 2024, 137 pp.

Presentation
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creator: Federica Formiga
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Federica Formiga https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-31
publication date: 2026-01-31
starting page: 7
ending page: 9
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i2.3194

Would you hand over the keys to your house to an LLM?
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description: Despite their long history and of the variety of approaches they encompass, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have nowadays become, in everyday language, synonymous of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Deep Learning. These two groundbreaking technologies have recently become widespread, overcoming some technological and social barriers and making AI available and familiar to everyone. Their success and performance are leading many people to think that they are the ultimate solution for many problems, and that we can blindly trust their outcomes, even when important values are at stake. This talk will frame these technologies, and especially LLMs, in the overall history of AI, highlighting their shortcomings, discussing some ethics-related issues they pose, and advocating for a more balanced attitude towards them, in order to take full advantage of their use while avoiding the risks they inherently bring about. Knowing them better will allow us to decide if, and under what conditions, we can safely hand over our home’s keys, or when other less popular, but more appropriate, approaches to AI should be used.
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creator: Stefano Ferilli
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Stefano Ferilli https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-31
publication date: 2026-01-31
starting page: 49
ending page: 65
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i2.2947

Review of Fulvio Julita, 'Scrivere con l'AI. Come unire intelligenza artificale, strategia e creatività'
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creator: Davide Martini
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Davide Martini https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-31
publication date: 2026-01-31
starting page: 131
ending page: 133

Review of Arnaldo Benini, 'Tiro sassi alla finestra di Hitler'
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creator: Federica Bertagna
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Federica Bertagna https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-31
publication date: 2026-01-31
starting page: 127
ending page: 130
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i2.3144

Revisiting the classics: series of adaptations for children
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description: The contribution analyses the now consolidated phenomenon of adaptations of literary classics in children’s publishing, with the aim of making them accessible to a very young audience. These re-writings, often published in series, serve a dual purpose: on one hand, they promote access to works of high cultural value, and on the other, they strengthen the credibility and authority of publishing houses in the eyes of parents and teachers. Sure enough the audience has changed profoundly over the years, forcing adaptations to update their characteristics and adjust to the cognitive and emotional needs of today’s young readers. According to AIE data, the children’s publishing sector remains vibrant and rich in new proposals, but it must contend with the growing use of other forms of entertainment, such as social media – narrative platforms that offer quick, immediate content, often consumed in a massive and immersive way. The challenges arising from changes in text comprehension abilities and concentration on reflective activities have led publishers to introduce graphic and paratextual elements, such as games, balloons and illustrations, to make texts more engaging and to lighten style and themes. Authors, often selected from leading figures in children’s literature, strive to maintain fidelity to the original text in terms of atmosphere and rhythm. Other rewriters, on the other hand, are inspired by the original works to create retellings and spin-offs, often targeted at a middle grade and young adult audience. The origin of these practices dates back to ancient times, although the distinction between adult and children’s literature became significant only in the 20th century, when the emergence of pedagogical and psychological studies highlighted the need for a literary production specifically designed for the needs of young readers. It was precisely during this time that editorial projects destined to make history were launched. A notable example was “La Scala d’Oro”…
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creator: Federica Gianelli
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Federica Gianelli https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-31
publication date: 2026-01-31
starting page: 87
ending page: 122
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i2.3075

How do we read in the hypertextual infinity?
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description: This paper seeks to address a central question: what individual paths does the reader follow in textual expansion, and what motivations drive the hyper-reader toward hyper-reading? Furthermore, are the motivations for reading comparable to those underlying hyper-reading? Offering exhaustive answers would be presumptuous, first because these are semantic and constantly evolving issues, and second because there is no conceptual or factual precedent for digital hypertext. One might argue that reading has always been augmented by nature, in the poststructuralist sense of the unlimited semiosis of the open work, yet the definitional difficulty remains and prevails, since the open work has never been as open as it is today. The study focuses on augmented reading practices — that is, on the processes of enriching text reading through online in-depth informational content. Several focus groups enabled the collection of qualitative data, here selected, reread, and analyzed according to the five factors identified by Beatrice Eleuteri as constituting the motivations for reading. Following Eleuteri’s methodological approach, this paper attempts an initial identification of the motivations underlying augmented reading.
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creator: Alessandra Venanzi
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Alessandra Venanzi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-31
publication date: 2026-01-31
starting page: 67
ending page: 85
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i2.2935

AI and the Book Value Chain: Do We Need a New Concept of the Core of (Quality) Publishing?
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description: AI systems can now be helpful in pretty much every stage of the publishing value chain, the application use cases range from writing blurbs, the use for predictive pricing all the way “back” to the actual (co-)authoring of texts. This has analogies to the situation in the 1990s insofar, as early steps of digitization led to the irritating insight that elements that had been considered to be integral part of the essence of publishing (then e.g. printing on paper) were downgraded to contingencies. Thinking about this it becomes clear that the question what are the constitutive elements of publishing can already be asked concerning much earlier stages of book history, as will be shown with the help of a short introductory example. If algorithms can write texts, device marketing campaigns, etc., the current version of the question is: where, then, are humans (“in-the-loop”) still undispensable, what is the new core of publishing, how can the system of publishing be described in the age of AI? This contribution will feed the discussion on what AI does to publishing and particularly to a convincing concept of publishing by discussing various thoughts on the essence of publishing and by postulating an irreducible core of publishing – irreducible not least in the sense that tasks in this core cannot be accomplished by algorithms in the general case or in a sufficient quality, respectively. Based on this, the contribution will propose a conceptualization of the “humans-in-the-loop” workflows around this core we have to expect and already see.
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creator: Christoph Bläsi
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Christoph Bläsi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-31
publication date: 2026-01-31
starting page: 31
ending page: 48
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i2.2916

Book Price Dynamics, Publication Date, and Concentration in the Italian Book Market. A Descriptive Exploration of the Italian and Foreign Fiction Books, 2022-2025
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description: This paper examines, with reference to the Italian market, the recent evolution of the average price, publication date, and sales concentration of Italian and foreign fiction books. Based on data published monthly by Il Giornale della Libreria using the NielsenIQ BookData, it is possible to obtain a timely and updated analysis of the 100 best-selling books in the main segments of the Italian book market. The analysis focuses on the Italian and foreign fiction segments, examining some of their characteristics from January 2022 to August 2025. Over the period examined, the average price of Italian and foreign fiction books remained virtually constant in nominal terms, albeit with some seasonal fluctuations. The average price of the 100 most-read foreign fiction books is slightly higher than that calculated for Italian fiction. Across both segments, the average age of the 100 best-selling books (calculated as the difference between the entry into the monthly ranking and the publication date) remains virtually constant over the period examined. Temporary age variations are also observed, with the average publication age decreasing in the last quarter of the year. The average age of foreign fiction books is higher than that of Italian fiction books. Finally, the concentration of sales does not reveal any significant pattern.
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creator: Antonello Eugenio Scorcu
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Antonello Eugenio Scorcu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-31
publication date: 2026-01-31
starting page: 11
ending page: 30
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i2.3070

Review of Gino Roncaglia, L'architetto e l'oracolo. Forme digitali del sapere da Wikipedia a ChatGPT
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subject: Reviews
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creator: Andrea Capaccioni
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Andrea Capaccioni https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2026-01-31
publication date: 2026-01-31
starting page: 123
ending page: 125
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i2.3068

Presentation
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description: The first issue of 2025, pursuing the line of the magazine, presents papers that look at book publishing in its different forms and modes of expression.
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creator: Federica Formiga
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Federica Formiga https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 7
ending page: 10
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i1.2933

Sara Bignotti, Il senso del libro. Filosofia e linguaggi del marketing editoriale, Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2021
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description: Review of: Sara Bignotti, Il senso del libro. Filosofia e linguaggi del marketing editoriale, Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2021.
subject: Reviews
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creator: Davide Martini
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Davide Martini https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 117
ending page: 118
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i1.2924

Libri senza barriere. Percorsi di editoria accessibile e inclusiva, Pavia: Edizioni Santa Caterina, 2024.
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description: Review of Libri senza barriere. Percorsi di editoria accessibile e inclusiva, Pavia: Edizioni Santa Caterina, 2024.
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creator: Caterina Morelli
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Caterina Morelli https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 121
ending page: 123
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i1.2905

Marco Fioretti, Norme e contratti per il lavoro editoriale, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2021
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description: Review of: Marco Fioretti, Norme e contratti per il lavoro editoriale, Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2021.
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creator: Nicola Cavalli
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Nicola Cavalli https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 119
ending page: 120
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i1.2909

Man, Computer, and Publishing in the 1980s: 'Digital Humanity' Between Computer Literacy and Mass Informatic Literature.
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description: The 1980s marked the decade of development for electronic publishing, which initially emerged as the rough product of the convergence of three factors: telematics, which gave rise to new editorial products, databases, and both local and international networks designed to manage the flow of information; the appropriation of telematic concepts and resources by libraries and bookstores; and the automation of key processes related to production and distribution. The computer was the enabling force that allowed these elements to interact within the publishing and cultural context of the time, driving the widespread diffusion of informatics and its integration into language and into reading and writing practices. This article explores the national and international debate surrounding the concept of Computer Literacy, from the moment it became clear that both the economic and cultural spheres were moving toward exponential technological implementation and a progressive domestication of digital tools. In this context, studies and discussions on Computer Literacy — which intensified between 1982 and 1985, and flared up intermittently throughout the 1990s and 2000s — tend to converge around its definitions, applications, and interpretations. They represent both a reaction to and a critical perspective on the transition from a paper-based society, grounded in printed materials, to a paperless one, in which books and newspapers in their traditional formats were increasingly perceived by advocates of the Computer Literacy Credo as obstacles to progress. Furthermore, these studies intersect with the possible redefinition of the roles of writing and reading in an information society, as well as with the sudden emergence of mass-market computer literature, which reached its peak between 1983 and 1987.
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creator: Angelica Cremascoli
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Angelica Cremascoli https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 63
ending page: 81
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i1.2888

Reading on paper and reading on screen: the state of research
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description: Forms of reading have changed many times over the centuries. Today, after the rise of the Internet and with the widespread diffusion of increasingly more affordable and sophisticated digital technologies, we are experiencing a new, radical change in the way we produce and consume written texts, which have in large part moved from the ‘physical’ world of paper to the ‘virtual’ world of digital screens. When the new digital technologies first appeared, the benefits they provided in terms of quantity and quality of information they conveyed in written, visual, audio, and video format spurred many policymakers and leaders in the fields of education and publishing to encourage a complete shift from the paper medium to the digital one. This choice, however, largely underestimated the impact that the reading medium has on the readers’ cognitive behaviours and even neurological structures. New studies have started to shed light on the different mechanisms underlying reading on paper and reading on screen, and their specific features. This paper aims at offering a review of the main lines of research concerning the differences between reading on paper and on screen, and what recommendations can be drawn for teachers and all those involved in the literacy education of the new generations, but also for contemporary readers, who have now the opportunity to access more information and stories and in more formats than ever, but can be disoriented by the variety of reading media, and uncertain about how to take the best out of it.Three will be the main focuses of the review: research interested in showing the different impacts of the reading media at the neurological level; research on the physical and haptic differences between reading on paper and reading on screen; and the results of some of the more comprehensive studies on the impacts of the reading media on comprehension and learning, especially for the young generations of readers.
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creator: Enrico Meglioli
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Enrico Meglioli https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 35
ending page: 62
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i1.2887

A New Perspective on Audibles
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description: The contemporary age introduces new challenges in publishing and authorship, amplified by the Internet and its new modes of dissemination. Notable innovations include self-publishing platforms and the digital distribution of books, areas in which Amazon has emerged as a major player through Kindle, the acquisition of Audible, and although briefly, Amazon Books. Particular attention has been drawn to the audiobook La Divine Comédie d'Amélie Nothomb: voyage mythologique des enfers au paradis, distributed by Audible's French subsidiary in February 2021. Created by Laureline Amanieux in collaboration with Amélie Nothomb, this project is notable for its hybrid nature. While audiobooks are traditionally aural transpositions of pre-existing literary works, this creation is an exception. Its uniqueness creates uncertainty even among its authors, who debate whether to define it as a podcast, audiobook, or documentary. This paper analyzes the multimedia character of this work, which reimagines Dante's Comedy in an innovative format. In particular, it explores whether the audiobook can be seen not merely as a derivative work but as an original creation, challenging the concept of what constitutes a book. The analysis emphasizes the script underpinning the project, which, while allowing room for improvisation in dialogic sequences, is structured around well-defined readings, both monologues and quotations from various works, including Dante's Comedy.
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creator: Federico Siragusa
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Federico Siragusa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 83
ending page: 99
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i1.2658

Open Access Policies in Latin America
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description: Information policies are the guidelines, regulations, laws and practices that govern the management, access, distribution, use and protection of information within a specific organization, nation or entity to ensure that information is used effectively, safely and ethically, including personal data, digital communications, media and information security. Such policies include regulating access to academic and research information resources. The issue of OA must be considered as a decisive element in terms of social concern, equity in the circulation of knowledge and as an essential element for a more just social development. Current policies assume that, in today's world, individuals are free from collective responsibility for their countries, but this is not true, since individuals are born, live and work in specific places, communities and countries, and most of the world's population lives in the global South. It is therefore necessary to be able to collaborate and improve quality, but it is also necessary to produce in a way that benefits both local communities and the world at large. Since the late 1990s, Latin America has more than 30 digital journal collections, most of them public. Universities and research centers have invested efforts and resources in implementing these tools, showing a new way of producing and disseminating research results through the digital medium. Information policies have thus favored full-text OA, while the institutions themselves have financed these distribution channels to gain more visibility through more citations for authors, seeking greater impact for their research. Even before the main declarations of the global OA movement were made, the region had already considered the possibility of creating national collections of digital full-text OA journals. According to Latindex data, for every five Ibero-American scientific journals, one is currently available digitally in OA.
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creator: Giulia Crippa
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Giulia Crippa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 11
ending page: 33
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i1.2884

The closure of the Einaudi installment network and its final historical catalog
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description: As of January 1, 2025, the Einaudi installment network, founded by Giulio Einaudi after World War II to enable everyone to build a personal library, has closed. The ‘Punti Einaudi,’ authorized agencies for installment sales, have ceased operations and, where possible, have become independent bookstores while maintaining ties with Mondadori, Einaudi’s owner. Customers with active contracts were able to pay installments until June 2025; afterward, payments will be managed directly by the publisher. This closure marks the end of a unique tradition in the Italian book market, caused by a decline in subscribers-especially young readers-and management issues. The agencies, which offered a vast Einaudi catalog and a unique cultural experience, will lose their role, transforming into more standardized bookstores to compete with large online chains.
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creator: Marco Menato
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Marco Menato https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 109
ending page: 115
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i1.2895

The production of book market statistics in Europe:
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description: The Federation of European Publishers (FEP) has been collecting, processing and publishing statistical data on the book market and the publishing sector in Europe for almost twenty years. This is an essential task to illustrate the sector's contribution to European culture and economy and ideally also useful to measure the impact of policies and other exogenous variables. The main source of data for the FEP is the questionnaire it submits to its members annually. The survey results are analysed and where possible supplemented through other sources, mainly data from national statistical offices. The result is a fairly clear and reliable picture of the value of the book market in Europe in its main dimensions: turnover, titles published. There are, however, significant difficulties, both with regard to the comprehensiveness and comparability of the information provided by the national associations, and with regard to the usability of the national statistics (and, by extension, those provided by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office). The FEP therefore appeals to the competent authorities to increase their efforts to improve the knowledge of the publishing sector in Europe.
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creator: Enrico Turrin
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Enrico Turrin https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-05-31
publication date: 2025-05-31
starting page: 101
ending page: 108
doi: 10.14672/se.v3i1.2890

Luca Valenziano, Librai e lettori fra seduzione e alleanza. Attivazione emotiva e scambio empatico nella libreria fisica Genova, Erga, 2024
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description: Review to: Luca Valenziano, Librai e lettori fra seduzione e alleanza. Attivazione emotiva e scambio empatico nella libreria fisica Genova, Erga, 2024
subject: Reviews
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creator: Marco Francalanci
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-02-11
publication date: 2025-02-11
starting page: 153
ending page: 155
doi: 10.14672/se.v2i2.2822

Caroline Koegler e Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Are Books Still ‘Different’? Literature as Culture and Commodity in a Digital Age Cambridge University Press, 2023
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description: Review to Caroline Koegler e Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Are Books Still ‘Different’? Literature as Culture and Commodity in a Digital Age Cambridge University Press, 2023
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creator: Francesca Giglio
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-02-11
publication date: 2025-02-11
starting page: 149
ending page: 152

Nei luoghi dell’identità: donne, fonti del sé e ‘memoria consegnata’.
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description: Le donne nell’editoria del Novecento. Archivi, memorie, autorappresentazioni, a cura di Lodovica Braida e Irene Piazzoni. Milano: Ronzani, 2022
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creator: Angelica Cremascoli
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-02-11
publication date: 2025-02-11
starting page: 143
ending page: 147
doi: 10.14672/se.v2i2.2820

Presentazione
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description: The second issue of 2024, in line with the magazine's editorial line, presents contributions that look at publishing in its various forms and modes of expression; furthermore, on this occasion too, it gives young scholars the opportunity to explore certain topics, albeit ones that sometimes cut across the world of books.
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creator: Federica Formiga
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-02-11
publication date: 2025-02-11
starting page: 5
ending page: 6

The Comic Book in Libraries: A Dynamic Distribution Path
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description: The Comic Book in Libraries: A Dynamic Distribution Path As part of a research project focused on book distribution within the realm of bookstores as well as libraries, the analysis continues with an emphasis on comic books, explored in their various forms—from manga to graphic novels. The latter have not only boosted the publishing market's revenue but also reached new readers, both quantitatively and qualitatively, to the extent that they are now considered a benchmark for evaluating whether someone qualifies as a reader. The production and circulation of comics are engaging the entire supply chain, starting with publishers and extending to endpoint channels like libraries. In the aftermath of the pandemic, libraries have had to reinvent many of their services and update the textual and linguistic formats available to users. Comics have proven to be a fitting tool for this purpose. Indeed, public libraries have enhanced their collections by investing in these new literary forms. The question arises: how do libraries interact with the comic book market, which has seen significant growth? Only by analyzing the market—made possible through collaborations with organizations such as Leggere s.r.l.—will it be possible to determine which publishers, and how many, have consistently introduced their comic book productions into libraries over the past three to four years.
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creator: Federica Formiga
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Federica Formiga https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-02-11
publication date: 2025-02-11
starting page: 25
ending page: 45
doi: 10.14672/se.v2i2.2703

I comportamenti di acquisto di libri in una prospettiva di comparazione internazionale. Alcuni spunti da una recente pubblicazione
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description: Establishing a sensible international comparison of reading habits has proven difficult because of the phenomenon's complexity under scrutiny. These difficulties are confirmed by the recent publication of a research promoted by the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF, 2024) which compares national book market structures through field analysis carried out throughout spring 2024 in nineteen countries. The research reports some basic indices on reading and purchasing in each country. It compares the weight of the main genres of books purchased, highlighting that the main core of purchases reflects above all intrinsic motivations for reading, which are also transversal to traditional market classifications. Regarding the weight of the different purchasing channels, most buyers use both physical and online channels. The research also confirms that, in the competitive process, the strengths of independent physical bookstores primarily concern the offer of a pleasant purchasing experience and their easy accessibility.
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creator: Antonello Eugenio Scorcu
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Antonello Eugenio Scorcu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-02-11
publication date: 2025-02-11
starting page: 9
ending page: 24
doi: 10.14672/se.v2i2.2702

ChatGPT and Beyond
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description: On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launches ChatGPT. The chatbot records an extremely high number of interactions within a few months, becoming a worldwide success and managing to pervasively spread the concept of generative artificial intelligence in public debate. But what exactly is meant by generative artificial intelligence, and what technological architecture underpins a tool like ChatGPT? This contribution starts from these questions to explore the potential offered by the use of generative AI models, taking a look at the hottest topics in recent scientific research on this subject. The ultimate goal is to offer a scientifically up-to-date overview that allows one to navigate a new and fluid field like the current one, where technological innovations are piling up at such a high rate that it becomes difficult even for insiders to stay updated. The first part of the article frames the topic, clarifying the concept of generative artificial intelligence and focusing specifically on Large Language Models and their architecture. Far from wanting to delve into the statistical and engineering specifics that characterize this technology, the intent is to help acquire an intuition about its functioning, in order to reflect in an informed way on the potential and risks of these tools. Subsequently, the article analyzes the most interesting themes of current scientific research on generative AI. Among these we will discuss about Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), which improves text generation through access to updated and contextual information; and agentic AI, which introduces intelligent agents capable of making autonomous decisions. The contribution closes with a reflection on the significance of generative artificial intelligence for dealing with data today, trying, in light of what was previously exposed, to indicate possible paths of development and integration of this technology that may be of high interest.
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creator: Pietro Segreto
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Pietro Segreto https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-02-11
publication date: 2025-02-11
starting page: 47
ending page: 69
doi: 10.14672/se.v2i2.2637

Sostenibilità economica e affidabilità
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description: Increasingly, we hear about the ‘crisis in publishing’, of journalists losing their jobs, of news outlets being forced to downsize and refrain from bringing in fresh talent, and of the growing unreliability and spread of fake news. In this historical moment, information is being forced to reinvent itself, to leave behind, perhaps with some nostalgia, its glorious past, and to chart new, imaginary tracks along which to continue its journey toward innovation. One must ask: what future lies ahead for information as it clashes with a new online market, where everything is offered at zero cost? What future for information that is seen as unreliable? What future in a predominantly social media-driven environment, where the global spread of news happens in mere minutes, and the opportunity for in- depth analysis becomes increasingly scarce? And what future in the face of artificial intelligence? In this piece, we will focus on two central challenges facing contemporary journalism: economic sustainability and reliability. These issues will be explored through interviews with Stefano Feltri, a journalist who founded and previously directed ‘Domani’, and is now behind the newsletter and podcast series ‘Appunti’, and Alessandro Tommasi, an entrepreneur in the social communication field, known for his two startups, Will.Ita, one of the leading social communities, and Nos. Both interviews highlight critical concerns as well as the need and potential to devise innovative pathways for the future of journalism.
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creator: Martino Tosti
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Martino Tosti https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-02-11
publication date: 2025-02-11
starting page: 123
ending page: 140
doi: 10.14672/se.v2i2.2643

I Podcast di informazione internazionale
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description: In the past year, the podcast has become one of the most widely used forms of everyday storytelling as a tool for knowledge, entertainment, and companionship. The awareness of the existence of this narrative medium has increased, such that the percentage of those who do not use it due to lack of awareness has decreased by 8%1. Conversely, the number of users has increased significantly compared to 2022: studies show a growth of almost one million listeners, reaching a total of sixteen million listeners in 2023. Specially in the past two years, there is an almost equal distribution between men and women, although women have shown renewed interest. There are many factors that have contributed to this development alongside technological advancement, and one of the main is the Pandemic: while closed in their homes, people were driven by a need for companionship. Although it is a recent phenomenon in Italy, in the United States similar contents have been created since 2005 with the birth of the iPod (from which the term podcast derives), culminating in Serial: the first podcast structured like a TV series, which reached 250 million listens by 2018. From a creative and specialized point of view podcasts offer endless possibilities, while from an informational perspective, there are some reservations. The risk associated with the large quantity of homemade audio products is the multiplication of sources (including uncertified ones) while covering information about the world and sometimes sensitive topics. Yet, in the United States, the podcast medium has been established as a journalistic medium for almost ten years: The Daily and Up First are listened to daily by 29% of the adult population who report using podcasts for information. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, this habit has developed worldwide, contributing to the rapid decline of print media in favor of the convenient and intimate smartphone. In 2023, countries such as Brazil, China, and Morocco ranked national news po…
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creator: Anna Delaini
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Anna Delaini https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-02-11
publication date: 2025-02-11
starting page: 71
ending page: 91
doi: 10.14672/se.v2i2.2648

The GI pRESS experience In independent publishing in the 1960s
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description: One of the phenomena that most influenced american public opinion and beyond, and that we can connect to the biggest phenomenon of the underground press, is undoubtedly what is commonly defined as GI Press. But what are we talking about when we refer to GI Press and what does the acronym GI mean and where does it come from? GI Press is the set of periodicals and other printed products almost always produced anonymously and distributed through an alternative distribution system to the mainstream one, directly by young Americans in military service during the conflict that saw Vietnam opposed the United States of America. The analysis of these magazines that saw their greatest diffusion precisely during the 1960s and 1970s, allows us today to underline how the voices coming directly from the front, and more generally the entire editorial production of the counterculture, had the ability to shift the political-cultural discussion within the public debate not only in the United States.
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creator: Francesco Ciaponi
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Francesco Ciaponi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2025-02-11
publication date: 2025-02-11
starting page: 93
ending page: 122
doi: 10.14672/se.v2i2.2638

Constantino Bértolo, Una poetica editoriale, traduzione di Chiara Giordano, Milano, Ledizioni, 2024, 137 pp.
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description: Constantino Bértolo, Una poetica editoriale, traduzione di Chiara Giordano, Milano, Ledizioni, 2024, 137 pp.
subject: Reviews
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creator: Andrea Palermitano
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
date: 2024-08-26
publication date: 2024-08-26
starting page: 91
ending page: 98
doi: 10.14672/se.v2i1.2501