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MONDADORI BOOKSTORE MA also arrives in Milan, with its eighth store in Italy. The new store in the green, Japanese-inspired bookstore format will open on Saturday, 16 September, starting at 10 a.m., inside the Bonola Shopping Centre.

Sansevieria, bonsai trees, and tall, curved furniture reminiscent of tree trunks furnish the approximately 150-square-metre bookstore, a new magnet for the cultural life of the area. The winning mix of multimedia, comfort, and sustainability gives rise to a “reader-friendly” space in keeping with the Japanese philosophy of Ma, from which the brand takes its name, and which offers a place to nourish the mind and to find a moment of respite from daily stress.

Among shelves of fiction, non-fiction, miscellaneous works, classics, manga, graphic novels, gadgets, interactive totems and reading and relaxation corners, visitors – supported by a team of young and passionate booksellers – will be able to have a totally new shopping experience and, at the same time, enjoy fun times thanks to literary events, book signings and all the other activities offered for young and old alike. A rich section of books, illustrated books, toys and educational games will also be dedicated to them to have fun and stimulate their creativity.

“Finally: Milan, too!” declared Giuseppe Messina, the CEO of MA book lifestyle group. “The green spirit that stimulates the revitalisation and development of this area of the Milanese metropolis,” Messina continued, “perfectly matches the mission of innovation and eco-sustainability that drives our project in partnership with Mondadori Retail”. It will be a lively, dynamic space,” he concluded, “soon capable of becoming a cultural meeting place for all readers in the area”.

MONDADORI BOOKSTORE MA is a young and environmentally-friendly bookstore. Concepts such as comfort, multimedia experiences and sustainability are reflected in both its architectural features and the materials used to achieve them, as well as in its editorial proposals and initiatives. This cultural environmentally-friendly concept is the result of the creativity and innovative ideas of a team of southern entrepreneurs: Paolantonio Serpe, CEO of MOOKS, Nello and Biagio Nunziata, owners of the popular clothing brand ZUIKI and Giuseppe Messina, an entrepreneur from Catania, in partnership with Mondadori Retail, the company at the head of the largest network of bookstores in Italy: Mondadori Store. MONDADORI BOOKSTORE MA has been located in Turin’s Officine S Shopping Centre since 6 January 2022, in Sestu, in the province of Cagliari, since 17 March, in the La corte del Sole Shopping Centre in Catania, in via Etnea, since 11 November, in Martignacco, in the province of Udine since last February, at the Città Fiera Shopping Centre and in Salerno since 10 March, at the Le Cotoniere Shopping Centre and at the Aurelia Antica Shopping Centre of Grossetto as of 6 May, since last 16 June in Gravellona Toce in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, at the Le Isole Shopping Centre and from next 16 September in Milan, inside the Bonola Shopping Centre. Other openings are planned for 2024 across important Italian cities.

MONDADORI BOOKSTORE MA
Bonola Shopping Centre, Via Quarenghi, 23 – 20151, Milan
Hours: Monday through Saturday 08:30 – 20:00 – Sunday and holidays 09:00 – 20:00
Phone: +39 0235958483
Email: milanobonola@mooks.it
https://www.mondadoristore.it/negozi

On Monday 18 August, Mondadori Store, the largest network of bookstores in Italy, opened a new bookstore in La Torre Shopping Centre in Palermo, with the aim of becoming a cultural reference point for customers and residents in the area.

The bookstore covers an area of 110 square metres on one floor. The new opening will expand the already extensive Mondadori Store network in the area, making a new hub dedicated to the world of books, culture and entertainment available to the public.

“After the restyling of the Mondadori Bookstore, which has been open for more than ten years, at the Forum Shopping Centre, the opening of the one at Sanlorenzo Mercato and two other sales outlets in Via Roma and at the Palermo Nuova Città Shopping Centre, together with my partner Maurizio Iacona, aware of the importance of having new cultural hubs in the area, and in line with the objectives of Mondadori Store, we have bet on a new bookstore inside the La Torre Shopping Centre,“ comments Giuseppe Flaccovio, a Mondadori Store network affiliate.

The new Mondadori Bookstore offers a wide selection of approximately 10,000 titles, ranging from the great classics to fiction, not forgetting young readers with the We are Junior format, which includes educational and illustrated games to stimulate their imagination with the most interesting stories, and the innovative department dedicated to manga and comics, Just Comics. To expand the shop’s offer there is also an area dedicated to stationery, along with gift boxes, gift cards and a selection of eReaders.

The Mondadori Bookstore in La Torre Shopping Centre is also at the service of readers online: customers will be able to get in touch with the bookstore and be updated on all the initiatives through the digital services of Mondadoristore.it to check the availability of a book, order it and collect in store, choosing from a catalogue of over 1 million titles.

MONDADORI BOOKSTORE

La Torre Shopping Centre, via Assoro n.25/B, 90135 Palermo (PA)
Opening hours: Mon-Sun 09:00 – 21:00
E-mail:latorre@libreriaflaccovio.it
FB – IG @mondadoribookstore_palermo

Mondadori Retail, the company that manages the largest network of bookstores in Italy, presents exclusive initiatives aimed at the school world for the 2023/24 school year. These projects stem from the desire to strengthen the relationship between schools and bookstores, to promote socio-cultural growth and to raise awareness among young people on issues such as sustainability and multiculturalism.

Alunni in libreria (Pupils in bookstores)

Mondadori Retail ‘s exclusive initiatives include Alunni in libreria which, for more than twenty years, has put preschool, primary and secondary school teachers in contact with local Mondadori Bookstores, consolidating the social role of bookstores as points of reference and promoters of cultural habits for local communities. Bookstores can become familiar places of discovery and sharing, bringing younger people closer to the world of culture and reading.

Through the platform alunniinlibreria.it, teachers will be able to get in touch with booksellers – choosing from more than 300 registered Mondadori Store bookstores – and organise visits and interactive workshops, meetings with children’s fiction authors, as well as many other fun-educational activities from the catalogue available on the site. In addition, membership allows all participating classes to receive books as gifts to enrich the school library.

From this year Alunni in libreria also presents a new initiative: Idee in circolo (Ideas in circulation), a cycle of events entirely dedicated to sustainability and green issues, designed precisely to put new ideas into circulation and create new perspectives for the future. Among the planned initiatives, for a circle of selected bookstores, there is a special new workshop format in cooperation with the cultural association Leo Scienza. An interactive experience that involves imagination with animated readings, science workshops and theatrical experiences, during which the young participants, accompanied by a couple of animators, head off to discover the main environmental and planet protection issues. An adventure in which books are brought to the stage, becoming not only a tool for learning about the wonders and difficulties of the world we live in, but also a source of solutions to the challenges of the present, incentives for action, true values and good practices.

Mondadori bookstores are also taking part in the “Scrittori in classe (Writers in classroom)”,a Mondadori Group project thanks to which bookstores are in communication with local schools offering them meetings with various authors, both online and in person. The project is aimed at primary and secondary schools with the objective of emphasising the importance of reading, the critical analysis of the text and deepening the subject matter of the book. “Scrittori in classe” represents an educational pathway that offers girls and boys the opportunity, through meetings with authors, to participate in an important moment of confrontation and cultural enrichment.

Collectors’ Tote Bag

The new edition of the iconic fabric shopper – free exclusively to Mondadori Store customers – is back! This year honours the 150th anniversary of the death of Alessandro Manzoni, one of the fathers of Italian literature and still central to the school curriculum.
The new Tote Bag, now in its eighth edition, depicts the well-known landscape scenery of a branch of Lake Como where the literary masterpiece I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) is set.

The elegant illustration, signed by Carlotta Gasparini, makes it an unmissable accessory for all history lovers and characters of one of literature’s greatest classics.

Following the success of the previous collectors’ Tote Bags, Mondadori Store confirms its collaboration with MiMaster – Italy’s leading training school forillustration andpublishing – which draws on the creativity of young student illustrators for the graphic customisation of the bags.

The bag – collectible and made of 100% recyclable cotton – is completely in line with Mondadori Retail’s sustainable goals.

It is free to all those who buy, from 1 to 23 September 2023, from participating Mondadori Stores or from mondadoristore.it at least 2 books from the catalogue of Mondadori Group publishing houses:  Einaudi, Fabbri Editore, Frassinelli, Mondadori, Mondadori Electa, Piemme, Rizzoli, Sperling&Kupfer, De Agostini and Star Comics.

School books

The school book reservation service that Mondadori Retail offers to families of students also continues. The service is available at mondadoristore.it and in participating local bookstores.

Through the pre-loaded lists of the various educational institutions, you can select the relevant class and texts and have your order sent directly to your home. In addition to school textbooks, the service is completed by a wide assortment of stationery products for children who need materials required by teachers.

Bookstores also offer teachers a wide selection of new publications on the world of children and young people to support school planning.

Mondadori Store is the largest network of bookstores in Italy: a cultural organisation active nationwide through more than 500 stores in large cities and small towns alike, and online through the e-commerce website Mondadoristore.it and the bookclub formula. In addition to books, its core offer, it organises entertainment experiences, events and multi-channel services, reaching more than 20 million customers every year.

Thursday, 14 September, Mondadori Store, the largest network of bookstores in Italy, will open a new bookstore in Rome in the heart of the residential neighbourhood of Via Salaria 54. To celebrate the occasion, starting at 6 pm, Marcello Veneziani – journalist and author of numerous essays on philosophy and political culture – will be there to meet readers and sign copies of his book “Vico dei miracoli”,’published by Rizzoli.

The new Mondadori Bookstore covers an area of 140 square metres spread over two floors and three storefronts located on the ground floor. The new opening will expand the already extensive Mondadori Store network in the area, making a new hub dedicated to the world of books, culture and entertainment available to the public.

This is the first opening of journalist Giulia Di Martino’s Mondadori Store affiliate, fulfilling a lifelong dream of hers. “For personal reasons, I moved to Rome from Sicily, where I worked for a local TV station. However, this unexpected change in my life has allowed me to focus on the dream I’ve had since I was a child: to have my own bookstore that could become a meeting place for all the inhabitants of the area, especially the many families that populate the neighbourhood, and to stand as a real cultural hub for the area,” said Giulia di Martino.

A team of experienced anthropologists will support the affiliate in providing the best service to customers at the new Mondadori Bookstore. The bookstore is envisioned as an additional service offered to the local community, making it a meeting place for families and schools in the area.

The new Mondadori Bookstore offers a wide selection of titles, approximately 12,000, ranging from the great classics to fiction, not forgetting young readers with the We are Junior format, which includes educational and illustrated games to stimulate the imagination with interesting stories, and the innovative department dedicated to manga and comics, Just Comics. Also expanding the store’s offerings are areas dedicated to stationery, toys, music, Kobo e-readers, gift cards and gift boxes.

The Mondadori Bookstore in Via Salaria 54 in Rome also serves readers online: customers can keep up-to-date through its Facebook and Instagram pages. They will also be able to get in touch with the bookstore through the Mondadoristore.it digital services to check whether a book is available, order it and pick it up in the store or have it delivered to their home, choosing from a catalogue of more than 1 million titles.

Mondadori Store is the largest network of bookstores in Italy: a cultural organisation active nationwide through more than 500 stores in large cities and small towns alike, and online through the e-commerce website Mondadoristore.it. In addition to offering readers and users its core offer, books, it organises fun experiences, events and multi-channel services, reaching more than 20 million customers each year.

MONDADORI BOOKSTORE
Via Salaria 54 – Rome – Postcode 00019Hours: Mon–Sat 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Email:  mondadorisalaria@gmail.com
Phone: 06.66731269/WhatsApp: +39 334.7489806
https://www.mondadoristore.it/negozi
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On Wednesday, 2 August, Mondadori Store, the largest network of bookstores in Italy, will open a new bookstore in the Scauri district of the municipality of Minturno (Latina), a well-known seaside resort on the Lazio coast.

The new Mondadori Bookstore covers an area of 120 square meters at 19 Via Italo Balbo, a strategic point between the waterfront and the local high street with its busy shops. The new opening will expand the already extensive network of Mondadori Stores in the area, creating a new public centre for books, culture and entertainment.

The bookstore is a new opening, in the area, by Felice Paparello, an affiliate of Mondadori Store. The decision to open a new Mondadori Bookstore in a seaside resort and near the Roman archaeological site of Minturno meets the need for a cultural hub to serve local residents and tourists, and is in line with the program to enhance and expand across Italy the country’s largest network of bookstores.

The new Mondadori Bookstore offers a wide selection of titles, approximately 12,000, ranging from the great classics to fiction, not forgetting young readers with the We are Junior format, which includes educational and illustrated games to stimulate the imagination with interesting stories, and the innovative department dedicated to manga and comics, Just Comics. The store’s offer also includes an area dedicated to stationery, along with gift boxes and gift cards.

The Mondadori Bookstore in Scauri also serves readers online: customers can keep up-to-date through its Facebook, Instagram and TikTok pages. They will also be able to get in touch with the bookstore through the Mondadoristore.it digital services to check whether a book is available, order it and pick it up in the store or have it delivered to their home, choosing from a catalogue of more than 1 million titles. The bookstore will also offer customers the opportunity to place orders via telephone.

Mondadori Store is the largest network of bookstores in Italy: a cultural organisation active nationwide through more than 500 stores in large cities and small towns alike, and online through the e-commerce website Mondadoristore.it. In addition to books, its core offer, it organises fun experiences, events and multi-channel services, reaching more than 20 million customers each year.

MONDADORI BOOKSTORE
Via Italo Balbo 19 – Minturno – Scauri – 04028 prov. Latina
Regular hours: Monday – Sunday 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 4:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Summer hours: Monday – Sunday 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 5 p.m. – 11 p.m.
E-mail: mondadoriscauri@gmail.com
Phone: +39 0771 904164
https://www.mondadoristore.it/negozi
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On Thursday, 13 July, Mondadori Store, the most extensive network of bookstores in Italy, will open a new branch at Il Destriero Shopping Centre in Vittuone, a town in the Milan municipality. The public will find an innovative space – covering ca. 500 m² – entirely dedicated to culture, literature and entertainment.

Over 15,000 books await the public at via Piemonte 2, ranging from best sellers to great classics, including fiction, non-fiction and miscellaneous works, as well as an assortment of comics, spanning mangas, superheroes and graphic novels of the latest Just Comics area. The We are Juniors section welcomes very young readers with educational games and illustrated books selected to feed their imagination and curiosity. Visitors will also find high qualitystationary products, gadgets, gift boxes, gift cards, Kobo e-readers and the latest music released on the market.

«We are happy to open a new bookstore at Il Destriero Shopping Centre, thus confirming our central role in promoting reading and spreading culture. The opening of this directly managed new Mondadori Bookstore is part of a broader strategy of ongoing renewal, enhancement and development of our Mondadori Store network. We want to make our bookstores increasingly attractive, turning them into a cultural landmark throughout Italy», said Carmine Perna, Managing Director of Mondadori Retail.

The Mondadori Bookstore di Vittuone is also present online. Clients may contact the store for updates on all initiatives and events through its Facebook and Instagram pages, and make use of the digital services of Mondadoristore.it to check the availability of a book from a catalogue of more than 1 million titles, order it and pick it up at the store.

Mondadori Store is the largest network of bookstores in Italy, a cultural organisation that operates nationwide with more than 500 stores, across large cities and small towns alike, and online through the e-commerce website Mondadoristore.it and the book club formula. In addition to books, its core offer, it organises fun experiences, events and multi-channel services, reaching more than 20 million customers each year.

MONDADORI BOOKSTORE
Il Destriero Shopping Centre, Via Piemonte 2, 2009 Vittuone (MI)
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
E-mail: libreria.ildestriero@mondadori.it
Phone: +39 0249509200
https://www.mondadoristore.it/negozi
FB – IG @mondadoriccildestriero

From today, Thursday 6 July, the Mondadori Bookstore in Fiumicino (Rome) will present a completely restyled look to the public.

The bookstore proposes new spaces, a layout and furnishings to enhance the broad Mondadori Store offer, with a focus on books and attentive service for the needs of every reader.

In a strategic central location in The Wow Side Shopping Centre, the new Mondadori Bookstore – measuring 200 square meters – continues to be a cultural landmark for the entire local community and book lovers. On the shelves, the public will find more than 10,000 books – from best-sellers to the great classics in fiction and non-fiction – as well as a huge assortment of the latest music entries (including K-POP), stationery, gadgets, gift boxes, gift cards and the recommendations of the Mondolibri bookclub.

The new Mondadori Bookstore in Fiumicino also features an area designed specifically for young readers: “We are Junior“, a completely new department where even the youngest children can find a rich offering of educational games and picture books. The store also houses an extensive selection of comics in the “Just Comics” section, with manga, superheroes and graphic novels.

The Mondadori Bookstore in Fiumicino also serves readers online: customers will be able to contact the store and keep up with initiatives and events through its Facebook and Instagram pages and make use of the digital services of Mondadoristore.it to check the availability of a book from a catalogue of more than 1 million titles, order it and pick it up in the store.

The new Mondadori Bookstore continues the renewal and development plan of Mondadori Store, the largest bookstore network in Italy, with more than 500 stores in cities and smaller centres. A cultural network active throughout the country, online with the Mondadoristore.it e-commerce site and the bookclub formula, which, in addition to books – the core of the offer –, provides entertainment, events and multichannel services, to reach more than 20 million customers every year.

MONDADORI BOOKSTORE
The Wow Side – Shopping Centre
Viale Donato Bramante, 31/65, 00054 Fiumicino RM
Opening hours: Mon-Sun 10 am – 9 pm
E-mail: libreria.fiumicinothewowside@mondadori.it
Phone: +39 06.87737555
FB – IG @mondadorithewowside
https://www.mondadoristore.it/negozi

MONDADORI BOOKSTORE IMA, the new format of contemporary bookstores that favours the Japanese-inspired atmosphere, doubles stores in Piedmont: after the opening in January 2022 of the brand’s flagship store in Turin, inside the Officine S shopping centre, on 16 June a new store will officially open in Gravellona Toce, at the Le Isole shopping centre.

Built on an area of about 200 square metres on a single level, the bookstore aims to be a space where culture and respect for nature blend harmoniously to offer visitors a totally new cultural and shopping experience that is at the same time food and rest for the mind. The Japanese philosophy of Ma, where the brand takes its name, is a space where the soul finds nourishment and shelter from the frenzy of everyday life.

The lights and furnishings, which are used for the proposed relaxation exercises, are made of environmentally-friendly materials: marine poplar, recycled iron and of course wood in the form of curved furniture like tree trunks, bonsai and sansevieria throughout the store. There’s also a corner for reading and relaxation, multimedia terminals and other interactive tools to enhance the possibilities of enjoying the space and choosing products from more than 33 thousand volumes on the shelf from fiction to non-fiction, from classics to a range of genres, comics, CDs, DVDs, games, stationery, and gadgets offered, as well as the support and advice of the staff of young and experienced booksellers.

The space will also host literary and musical events, debates, conferences, book signings and workshops for young and old and a gallery of art exhibitions and photography by local and national artists.

“We’re proud of this second opening in Piedmont, the seventh in Italy in just over a year”, said Nello Nunziata, CEO for Retail Development. “This wonderful location amidst lakes and mountains”, adds Nunziata, “fully embodies the spirit of harmony, relaxation and contact with nature that we bring with our innovative project in partnership with Mondadori Retail”. “In addition”, he concludes, “the proximity to the Swiss border will be a source of enrichment and cultural exchange to make the editorial offer and events that we will propose even more varied and able to respond to the different needs of the readers who will visit us”.

MONDADORI BOOKSTORE I MA
Le Isole shopping centre, Corso Marconi 42-44, Gravellona Toce (VB)
Opening hours: 9 – 20.30 every day, from Monday to Sunday
Phone: +39 0323 287647
Email: gravellona@mooks.it
https://www.mondadoristore.it/negozi

Mondadori Store, the largest network of bookstores in Italy, has opened a new bookstore in Cerveteri (RM), a few steps from the historic city centre.

The bookstore is franchised by entrepreneur Andrea Belisari and is located in Largo Almunecar 4, on an area of 100 square metres.

With this new opening, Mondadori Store further expands its network of points of sale, while also contributing to the cultural enhancement of the historic town of Cerveteri, with a new centre dedicated to the world of books and entertainment.

The new Mondadori Bookstore offers a selection of more than 10,000 titles, from the great classics to the most successful bestsellers, not to mention books for the little ones: the We are Junior area is dedicated to this, and also includes educational and illustrated games to stimulate the imagination with the strangest stories. Manga and comics are at the heart of the innovative Just Comics department. Completing the store’s offer is a stationery shop and a gadgets area.

The Mondadori Bookstore of Cerveteri also serves readers online: customers will be able to contact the store, follow the initiatives and events on its Facebook and Instagram pages and make use of the digital services of Mondadoristore.it to check the availability of a book from a catalogue of more than 1 million titles, order it and pick it up in the store.

MONDADORI BOOKSTORE
Address: Largo Almunecar 4
00052 Cerveteri (RM)
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm and from 4 pm to 7:30 pm, Sunday from 9:30 am to 1 pm and from 4 pm to 7:30 pm.
Phone: 0687081325
Email address: belisariandrea@gmail.com
FB: Mondadori Cerveteri – Ladispoli
IG: mondadoribookstore_cerveteri

Tomorrow, on Thursday 1 June, Mondadori Store, the largest network of bookstores in Italy, will open a new bookstore in Palermo in the Palermo Nuova Città Shopping Centre.

The bookstore covers an area of 130 m² and is located on the ground floor of the shopping centre located in the north of the Sicilian capital. The new opening will expand the already extensive Mondadori Store network in the area, making a new hub dedicated to the world of books, culture and entertainment available to the public.

“Ten years after the opening of the Mondadori Flaccovio Bookstore at the Forum Shopping Centre and after the creation of a Mondadori Flaccovio Bookstore at Sanlorenzo Mercato and another store in the centre in Via Roma 270, I and my associate, Maurizio Iacona, realised how much Palermo still ‘needed’ to cover some areas with new cultural strongholds,” said Giuseppe Flaccovio, affiliated with the Mondadori Store network.

The new Mondadori Bookstore offers a wide selection of titles, approximately 15,000, ranging from the great classics to fiction, not forgetting young readers with the We are Junior format, which includes educational and illustrated games to stimulate their imagination with the most interesting stories, and the innovative department dedicated to manga and comics, Just Comics. To expand the store’s offer there is also an area dedicated to stationery, along with gift boxes, gift cards and a selection of eReaders.

The Mondadori Bookstore in Palermo Nuova Città also serves readers online: customers can be updated on all the activities and events planned through the Facebook and Instagram pages. They will also be able to get in touch with the library through the Mondadoristore.it digital services to check if a book is available, order it and pick it up in the store, choosing from a catalogue of over 1 million titles. The bookstore will also offer customers the opportunity to place orders via telephone.

MONDADORI BOOKSTORE
Address: Via Ugo la Malfa, 115-119
90146 Palermo (PA)
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday from 9:00 to 20:00, Sunday from 10:00 to 20:00
Phone: 091.6538749
Email address: fabulacittanuova@ibreriaflaccovio.it