Congratulations! There are many books in English, but I still appreciate publishing books in local languages. There are usually closer to the reader and show that a huge income was not the only motivation to publish it (which is unfortunately very common these days).

Thank you for the nice words, David. BTW, I published a lot of books and I never got a decent income at lest

I recently heard that for the last few decades there have been some bestsellers, however, the publishers usually has to publish cookbooks to finance other literature (poetry or other public-specific)...

Sometimes it is, David.

Unfortunately in Italy, there are almost only two kinds of publishers. Two big blocks (Mondadori and Rusconi) that in the last two decades bought all the small and historically important under a cultural point of view. So, regardless of what is the publishers you go with your literature, as a matter of fact, you finish working for one of these two. And yes, it is a bad monopoly for the culture. The last book I published in Italian was for Apogeo / Feltrinelli, another big block then I stopped. The alternative for many aiming to see their literary books published and their name on the cover of a book is going to the very small publishers but – excluding a couple of friends I know very well and I have worked with about 15 years ago – they are almost all bandits. They don't really care about what is the value (or not) of your opera, as they propose you a (very sad) "publish contribution" that is usually between 500 and 1000 USD or more. With this, you receive maybe 100 or more copies of your book for free and the promise they promote your work everywhere. With this business you get your hundreds of copies to gift to friends and parents, they pay the printing and earn almost 50% and then forget you and your book. During the first half of 2000 I published many technical books for a publisher that now is disappeared with a fixed price per book. A series of small paperbacks on any kind of technical stuff (from the wap to the Playstation hacking and more), almost one book every 90 days. I remained in contact with the editor, a very good person and a friend that now is working for the Hoepli publisher, in Milan. This is probably the oldest independent technical publisher that remained independent in Italy. About two centuries of student generations studied their books without counting the huge number of reprints of old manuals and engineering books they published, from electrical engineering to mathematics, chemistry, building and more. So, this is the reason I accepted to start publishing these first two volumes for them and become one of their authors .

Sometimes it is, David.

Unfortunately in Italy, there are almost only two kinds of publishers. Two big blocks (Mondadori and Rusconi) that in the last two decades bought all the small and historically important under a cultural point of view. So, regardless of what is the publishers you go with your literature, as a matter of fact, you finish working for one of these two. And yes, it is a bad monopoly for the culture. The last book I published in Italian was for Apogeo / Feltrinelli, another big block then I stopped. The alternative for many aiming to see their literary books published and their name on the cover of a book is going to the very small publishers but – excluding a couple of friends I know very well and I have worked with about 15 years ago – they are almost all bandits. They don't really care about what is the value (or not) of your opera, as they propose you a (very sad) "publish contribution" that is usually between 500 and 1000 USD or more. With this, you receive maybe 100 or more copies of your book for free and the promise they promote your work everywhere. With this business you get your hundreds of copies to gift to friends and parents, they pay the printing and earn almost 50% and then forget you and your book. During the first half of 2000 I published many technical books for a publisher that now is disappeared with a fixed price per book. A series of small paperbacks on any kind of technical stuff (from the wap to the Playstation hacking and more), almost one book every 90 days. I remained in contact with the editor, a very good person and a friend that now is working for the Hoepli publisher, in Milan. This is probably the oldest independent technical publisher that remained independent in Italy. About two centuries of student generations studied their books without counting the huge number of reprints of old manuals and engineering books they published, from electrical engineering to mathematics, chemistry, building and more. So, this is the reason I accepted to start publishing these first two volumes for them and become one of their authors .

Hi Enrico,

Congrats on the book publishing! This is very cool!! : ) It's awesome that you wrote such a book based on your knowledge and experience creating all those projects.

I thought the publisher name sounded familiar.. I'm sure I at one time purchased some used books from a seller on the street, they were art books with renaissance reproductions so I bought it just for that - nicer than postcards.

Hello Shabaz, thank you. It is nothing strange that if the book you got was published in Italy it was by Hoepli.