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From the promotion of books for reading, and critical investments.

"Lo Stato italiano per la cultura lo spende 0.28% rispetto delle risorse disponibili al total in bilancio. Negli altri paesi if spende in media 1%. For the culture in Italy is spending about 1 / 3 of the European average (Germany, France, England, Spain, etc), despite being the country with more literary prizes in the world .... "

Mario Resch (Director MiBAC) Source: Matrix "Heritage & Culture on April 1, 2009.

cuts to culture

As anticipated by the operation in the summer (Decree-Law 112/2008, converted with amendments into law 133/2008), the 2009 Budget, approved on 22 December (Law 203 / 2008), confirmed the strong reduction of allocations to MiBAC in the 2009-2011 period approximately 30% year. These savings will amount to 228 million euro for 2009, € 240 million for 2010 and € 422 million for 2011.

resources dedicated to the promotion of the book.

from the figures in the final budget Mibac, the state has allocated to support the promotion of the book € 21,477,314 in 2005 and in 2006 € 15,186,639 and € 20,097,260 in 2007. Publishing houses have instead invested € 537,789 in advertising in 2005, € 483,017 in 2006 and € 450,424 in 2007 (Nielsen). Today there are several interventions put in place with the aim of promoting reading events dedicated to the book, including new events ad hoc as well as special editions of annual events such as the International Book Fair, the Torino Film Festival, the Festival of International Literature Award and the Witch, etc.

initiatives and events worldwide

The World Book Day is celebrated worldwide on April 23. The date is a tribute to three great authors whose life was extinguished by a singular coincidence that day in 1616: William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Garcilaso de la Vega. The origins lie in the feast of St. George, for over seventy years, is one of the most important days for Catalonia. Throughout the region, but especially in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe streets books are invaded by stalls and kiosks rose to afford to and men and women to perform a ritual that sees men give women a rose and the women return the gift or advance with a book. Turin was proclaimed by UNESCO as World Book Capital for 2006-2007, with the support of Rome. The above funds were Madrid, Alexandria, New Delhi, Antwerp and Montreal, Bogota, Amsterdam. This year, on the occasion of World Book, Italy comes out from the crowd and celebrating the XI edition of the Culture Week (18-26 April) with exhibitions, conferences, workshops, guided visits to museums and libraries, film within which the book is not contemplated.

Excerpt intervention Cristina Sanna, being held at the LM in Publishing, Journalism and Media Communication, Faculty of Humanities of the University of Tor Vergata (Rome) 29 April 2009.