Ideas, technology, regulatory guarantees, alliances, economic analyzes, new voices, but above all passion and training, necessary both to make the public aware and to be able to adequately respond to its needs. An articulated and particularly concrete reflection that yesterday the Taobuk Festival offered on the publishing world. In comparison, with the moderation of Paolo Verri, director of the Mondadori Foundation, Innocenzo Cipolletta, president of the Italian Editorial Association, Stefano Mauri, President and CEO of the Mauri Spagnol Group, Nino Rizzo Nervo, director of the Gazzetta del Sud and President of the Scientific Committee of Taobuk, Giulio Perrone, publisher, Giovanni Solimine, president of the Bellonci-Premio Strega, and Maximum. Turchetta, general manager Rizzoli.
At the opening, Rizzo Nervo immediately launched the alarm on digital piracy which hardly affects the productivity of editorial companies, with the illegal diffusion “of all seventy Italian newspapers, via Chat, every morning”. The director of the Gazzetta has therefore invoked more incisive regulatory actions, such as those launched for example for the illegal stream of sporting events, reiterating that protecting free and independent information is to protect a constitutionally guaranteed right.
Cipolletta highlighted the association’s commitment in currently reading education projects in schools in schools. He also found that technology and e-commerce have helped the spread of book publishing, however, causing serious repercussions in terms of copyright and responsibility for the author, who does not exist in the platforms while he is hired by the publishing houses with the choice to invest in a writer or writer.
Mauri also noted that in Italy there are 8000 companies recorded as publishersappreciating the commitment to scouting the smallest, and remembering the “discovery” of the then unknown JK Rowling. He hoped that culture and sport are not subject to boundaries or barriers, confirming the need to focus on young people.
Perrone reconstructed the story animated by “Passion and Love” lived twenty years as an independent publisher (which will be celebrated today at 8 pm in Piazza IX April) and the commitment to build “what is not there”, especially by the small publishing houses “who need to continue to discover”. But even the “big ones” are no less in the scouting of novelty, as Turchetta reiterated, clarifying that only if there is an “medium” class inclined to reading the publishing can grow.
And on the importance of deepening through a qualified source such as a book, for example of non -fiction, he insisted soliminealso in light of the success of the first edition of the wizard witch award held in the field of Taobuk.
In closing Verri’s warning: “Six large libraries and sixties are about to open in Italy: but specialized employees are missing, to whose training it is more urgent than ever to think”.