Mondadori Store, the largest network of bookstores in Italy, strengthens its presence in Sicily with the opening of a new Mondadori Bookstore directly managed inside the Centro Commerciale Etnapolis of Belpasso, one of the main commercial hubs in the province of Catania.

This opening brings a 50 the number of Mondadori Bookstores in the region, between directly managed and franchising, in line with the strategy of the network to promote the diffusion of culture and reading through outposts on the territory aimed at the community.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place Thursday 3 September at 10:30 am. Welcoming the public will be a team of expert female and male booksellers, ready to guide and advise every reader through the latest releases of the moment and great classics.

“With this new opening, we continue to invest in Sicily, a region where Mondadori Store is present with an increasingly widespread network of bookstores. The new Bookstore in Belpasso was born with the aim of offering readers of the province of Catania a welcoming and contemporary place, where they can find a wide editorial offering, services, and opportunities for discovery. The inauguration of the sales point is a further confirmation of our commitment to promoting reading and bringing people closer to books,” says Carmine Perna, CEO of Mondadori Retail.

The Mondadori Bookstore in Belpasso develops on a surface of 350 square meters and offers a catalog of about 13,000 titles – from great classics to bestsellers, including fiction, general non-fiction, and international books.

The bookstore welcomes all new releases with specific thematic areas designed to satisfy the tastes of all readers, such as We are Junior, the space for younger readers, which includes educational games and illustrated books to stimulate their imagination with the most curious stories; Just Comics, the department dedicated to the phenomenon of manga and comic books; and My New Romance, the new space dedicated to fans of the romance universe, one of the most loved literary genres of the moment. The offer of the sales points is finally enriched by a wide section dedicated to stationery, toys, gadgets, and gift cards.

The Mondadori Bookstore in Belpasso is at the service of readers also online: customers can be updated through the pages Instagram and Facebook. Furthermore, they will be able to get in touch with the sales points through the digital services of Mondadoristore.it to check the availability of a book, order it, pick it up in store, or have it shipped home. Among the available services is also present Zeercle, the platform that allows people to sell their volumes as well as CDs, vinyls, physical video games, DVDs, and Blu-rays, receiving in exchange a gift card corresponding to the value attributed to the products, to be used in bookstores and on the website mondadoristore.it

Mondadori Store represents the largest network of bookstores in Italy, with over 500 sales points spread from major cities to smaller centers. Active cultural outposts on the whole national territory, under the Mondadori Bookstore brand, in direct management and franchising, as well as the MA bookstores, Mondadori Duomo and Rizzoli Milano. Mondadori Store is active online with the e-commerce website Mondadoristore.it and the bookclub formula.

MONDADORI BOOKSTORE BELPASSO

Address: Contrada Valcorrente 23, 95032, Belpasso, CT

Hours: Mon – Sun 09:30-21:00

E-mail: libreria.etnapoliscatania@mondadori.it

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