It was the Book Fair of records.
Record of attendance because it reached 150,000 visitors, two thousand more than in 2019, but also of spaces thanks to the 18 thousand square meters more obtained inside halls 1, 2, 3 and Oval del Lingotto.
"A historic edition, the show with the most visitors ever. I had hypothesized 70-80,000. The largest fair since Covid began. Leafing
through a book makes less noise than breaking through the windows of the CGIL, but leafing through thousands of them. it makes a noise that we must reflect on "underlines the director of the Salone, Nicola Lagioia.
Already ready to restart the car "because the May edition is near and we have to race", Lagioia also talks about its future. "I will work here until May, then I expect there to be an industrial plan and a decision on what to do, what is the good of the Salone which still has much room for improvement. It is a heritage of the city, the territory and the country, and it must be taken into account. The city must know how to capitalize, and I hope that private individuals will also intervene. Turin should avoid putting itself in a position to start defeated: the Turin bourgeoisie has the opportunity to invest ". Lagioia explains that "with the current model, the Salone cannot grow in size, but it can grow from a qualitative point of view through collaborations with important international institutions.It can become a nerve center of European publishing ".
The atmosphere of the Salone was wonderful, full of enthusiasm, of the desire to be together. A real party.
Long queues at the entrances, but also in front of the meeting rooms with the authors. Readers and readers, writers and writers, editors, teachers, students, families, children, especially children and many young people are back. There were 11,700 students, almost 2,000 came from outside Piedmont.
They have bought a lot of books and most publishers have seen an increase in sales compared to 2019.
Important names in world literature have arrived in Turin, such as the French writer Michel Houellebecq, Valerie Perrin and, online, David Quammen, the Covid prophet. Among the numbers of the XXXIII edition, Piero Crocenzi, CEO of Salone Libro Srl, recalls the 14 million users reached on Facebook, the 15% growth on Instagram and the 420 thousand views on Twitter. The website was visited by 174,000 people over the five days of the event, while 31,000 seats booked through the Salto + platform. Over 40,000 shots were taken by the team of photographers, more than 3,500 press reviews collected in the days of the Fair alone and 320 passages on radio and television. The organization was perfect,thanks to a team of more than 90 people.
For the next edition, the president of the Circolo dei Lettore Giulio Biino says he is in favor of contamination and does not rule out synergies with the Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in May in Turin.
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