Communication (in particular through the Internet) and publishing do not get along very well, in Italy. Reason? Perhaps because in this sector dominates the top an average age that produces, say, a marked digital divide between the leaders of Italian. People maybe very good, but with concepts such as interactivity or web 2.0 should be complete in difficulty setting.
But we want to build a publishing house that very point on the Net, which we consider not only a useful space to advertise content (which is already important for a publishing house that aims to publish books often "uncomfortable") but that for the its horizontal trend, develops discussion, participation, report: in short, substantive democracy.
For some days we are online with the site
www.editoririuniti.net
and is still a beta version, far from what we want to achieve soon in terms of interactivity and dynamism. But in the meantime we have already opened up a Facebook profile ... and we were literally overwhelmed by requests for membership (in two days we received 482 friend requests, and just think that Chiarelettere, one of the few publishing houses to do some work on the Web is little more than 600 ...). That marks the expectation that surrounds the revival, renewed, this publishing house. But also, I believe, the desire for widespread participation, more and more seeking new channels for expression.
We hope that in this sense, the new Editori Riuniti can be a useful tool.
Here is our first press conference.
Press
The publisher Editori Riuniti back on the scene and introduces the new publishing program to the reading public, to professionals from the worlds of culture, politics and the media, Wednesday, June 24 at 11:00 am, at the Senate Library, Piazza della Minerva 38, Rome. The managing editor is
Alessio Aringoli. The editorial board, who will attend the press conference, includes among its members Richard Bellofiore, Gabriel Bonacci, Edward Bruno, Marina Caffiero, Salvatore Colella, Giorgio Cremaschi, Paul Franks, Ernesto Galli della Loggia, Marcello Panni, Alessandro Portelli, Bruno Roberti, Piero Sansonetti, Mirella Serri, Claudio Sestieri, Stefano Tassinari.
The publishing house, founded in 1953, was renewed in men and organization, with a continuing effort to keep abreast of major changes in historical, political and cultural aspects of contemporary society. Editori Riuniti, until 1989 the publisher of reference of the Communist Party, has experienced the same decline thereafter. In the Senate Library will present figures of culture and politics as Italian Emanuele Macaluso, Robert Fulco Pratesi, as well as bronchitis, historical memory of the publisher.
The return of Editori Riuniti, as an actor in the independent publishing scene, there is a path of continuity with the historical tradition of the past, with significant signs of innovation and originality. "Books to shake the country - said the editorial director Alessio Aringoli - to be present with documents, studies, research, surveys for the protection of rights and against any lawlessness. We aim to a renewal of the contents and organization of the publishing house, focusing on young people and appropriate use of all new media, as well as to innovations in the structure of promotional, commercial and distribution of publishing. "
The publisher is working on a project that aims to take root in the national perspective with a strong increase in the international arena. The activity recovery of Editori Riuniti focuses around a series of new publications.
Immediately we start with some evidence of impact. A book on the earthquake investigation of Abruzzo, with the signatures of Marco Travaglio and Vauro Senesi, which raises disturbing questions and so far no reply is dead on April 6 of that on reconstruction, and due out in bookstores a few days before G8 Aquila. Investigation (Three suicide excellent) Mario Almeida of the court on years of Tangentopoli. A novel about love story between two reporters of war, Nadeje Dominique. And then a book on Facebook (which raises the historical series of books based Tullio De Mauro), and new editions of classic texts in the catalog (Tutino, Longhi, Brandi). Comes in with the new library also Literary Editori Riuniti, a prestigious literary magazine with the signatures of social Carlo Lucarelli, Massimo Carlotto, Pino Cacucci, Wu Ming, Bruno Arpaia. Finally, scheduled for after the summer, along with a new batch of surveys, manuals, essays and novels, including the new edition of a text approved by the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano.
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