Rizzoli Libri

[5][7] In the 1960s, the group started to open their own book store, including a branch in the New York city, as well as sister operation Rizzoli International Publications.

[5] The group was expanded into RCS MediaGroup after the acquisition of the newspaper Corriere della Sera in 1974.

[7] The division RCS Libri & Grandi Opere was established in 1994, which included the imprints such as Fabbri.

[12][13] In 2007, Italian Competition Authority started an investigation on 9 publishing companies, including RCS Libri, for an alleged anti-competitive conduct in textbook market.

[14] On 9 December 2013, the group signed an agreement with Telecom Italia on e-books and online edition of newspapers.

It also included the ebooks of the imprints of RCS Libri at that time: Rizzoli, Bompiani, Fabbri, Adelphi, Archinto [it], Marsilio, Skira, and Sonzogno.

[21]: 18 [23] The market share of RCS Libri in fiction and non-fiction was 11.8% in 2014, according to Publishers Weekly,[1] itself was quoting the figure from GfK.

[28] Furthermore, in March 2016, Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) ruled that Mondadori, after the acquisition, had to sell subsidiaries and imprints Bompiani, Marsilio Editori and Sonzogno.

[29][30] Marsilio (including the imprint Sonzogno[31]) was sold back to De Michelis family's GEM S.r.l.

[33] Mondadori group retained the brands such as Rizzoli (in books only[26]), BUR and Fabbri Editori.

[43]: 33 In 2019, Oxford University Press and Rizzoli Education renewed an agreement on distributing books.

Oxford University Press signed the first agreement with La Nuova Italia Editrice [it] in 1978, now a brand of Rizzoli Education.

[50][non-primary source needed] Mondadori group launched the imprint Rizzoli Electa in January 2018, but the international illustrated department of Rizzoli Libri, would be integrated into fellow division Mondadori Electa.

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