Book Fair

Events dedicated to authors, publishing houses and bookshops

24 · 25 · 26 JUNE 2026 / BOLOGNAFIERE

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NUMBERS OF WMF 2025

+700

Exhibitors

+3.000

Startups and Investors

+73.000

Attendees

+90

Countries

+90

Stages

+1.000

Speakers

+350

Institutions

+72.8B

Total Participation in Deals

1.800

Exits

1.500B

Investment Portfolio

304B

AUM

+50

Bands and DJs

Since its first edition, the WMF has promoted and enhanced culture in all its forms through numerous events and initiatives.

Among these is the Book Fair, a fair aimed at the publishing world with a dedicated exhibition area - the Book District which over the years has hosted entities such as Hoepli and Egea - and numerous events aimed at participants, authors and bookshops. The Book Stage will also be active, a stage dedicated to authors who will be able to present their book to the public present at BolognaFiere, analyzing themes relating to the world of Innovation and Web Marketing such as Food, Tourism, Influencer Marketing and Neuromarketing.

Among the many guests from past years were Professor Nello Cristianini, world-renowned sociologist Manuel Castells, sociolinguist Vera Gheno and actor Totò Cascio along with Roberto Saviano, Paralympian Roberto Zanda, journalist Francesco Giorgino, Sarah Kaplan, director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy at the University of Toronto, and Andrew McAfee, a researcher at MIT.

At WMF 2026, scheduled at BolognaFiere from June 24th to 26th, we will also once again give space to books, the publishing world, and the many authors who fuel the country's culture every year. If you would like to participate as an exhibitor, please contact us and book your stand!

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Book Fair Main Events

Education
Among the WMF educational stages, some will be entirely dedicated to the publishing world, book presentations, and various in-depth discussions
Book Signing
The Book Fair will also feature book signings and meet-the-author sessions. Attendees will have the chance to meet the authors in person and discuss the works presented throughout the three-day event.
Book District
WMF is the International Fair on AI, Tech, and Digital Innovation: in the exhibition area, you will find leading players from the publishing industry, with dedicated B2B meeting areas and networking initiatives for professionals and companies.
Digital Job Placement
The recruitment service for attendees will be available via the WMF Web App, designed to facilitate matching between digital professionals seeking new opportunities and companies with open job positions.

Among the WMF educational stages, some will be entirely dedicated to the publishing world, book presentations, and various in-depth discussions

The Book Fair will also feature book signings and meet-the-author sessions. Attendees will have the chance to meet the authors in person and discuss the works presented throughout the three-day event.

WMF is the International Fair on AI, Tech, and Digital Innovation: in the exhibition area, you will find leading players from the publishing industry, with dedicated B2B meeting areas and networking initiatives for professionals and companies.

The recruitment service for attendees will be available via the WMF Web App, designed to facilitate matching between digital professionals seeking new opportunities and companies with open job positions.

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Call for Book Presentation

WMF offers the opportunity to present your book in front of a wide international audience, gaining exposure to potential new readers at BolognaFiere. Apply to the Book Presentation call and showcase your book at WMF 2026!

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Book signing

During the Book Fair, there will also be book signings and meetings with the authors. Participants will have the chance to meet the authors up close and discuss the works presented over the three days. Want to stay updated? Fill out the form!

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Education

Within the Book Fair, there will be book presentations, author meetings, debates, and much more. Do you want to bring your expertise to one of the WMF stages? Apply to the Call for Speakers!

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All books at WMF

AI come ansIA.

Cosa dobbiamo sapere per insegnare ai più giovani a convivere con l'intelligenza artificiale

Sonia Montegiove

A guide for parents, educators, and adults who want to help younger generations build the awareness needed to integrate generative AI into everyday life.

Artificial intelligence, on the one hand, offers rapid access to a wealth of information, not just online, prepares summaries, and generates simple explanations; on the other, it risks further accelerating a passive dynamic, in which thought is uncritically delegated. If we no longer cultivate the ability to ask questions to resolve doubts, we give up the opportunity to know and delve deeper. Asking questions is a profound cognitive act, requiring attention and intentionality. AI can respond, but when faced with trivial requests, it can only generate trivialities.

The solution lies not in seeking rigid, prepackaged answers, but in cultivating the art of asking the machine questions, preserving the critical approach to answers.

Analisi di Mercato AI: Analizza i micro-dati con l'aiuto dell'intelligenza artificiale

Massimo Giacchino

In this book, I have summarized and practically organized my working method for conducting a market analysis with the support of over 20 new artificial intelligence (AI) tools and more.

I guide you step by step to govern AI and understand when to integrate it into the analytics process, with the goal of assessing whether a product has real market potential.

At the end of the journey, you will be able to take your analyses to a higher level of quality and specificity.

With this third book of mine, I want to put you in a position to increasingly use micro-data as a concrete lever to support your marketing strategies.

Essentially this third book puts superpowers on my first Design Marketing book already purchased by over 10,000 marketing colleagues.

Creare fiducia con il tuo Personal Brand: Guida per costruire la tua figura professionale con un mindset di successo

Daniele Rizzi

The art of promoting oneself and one's skills as a personal brand, for a professional, has become of fundamental importance and offers the unique opportunity to create a lasting impression in one's field of interest.

From a state of unawareness towards a professional figure, the public must move to a mindset in which to cultivate self-acceptance, nurturing positive expectations and perceptions towards the offering they propose.

To reach this ambitious goal, Daniele Rizzi will guide us on a journey to change our communication and thus address the new challenges of the personal brand so that you can emerge, also leveraging technologies and platforms for work and entrepreneurship such as LinkedIn (of which you will find a useful guide in this text).

If you want to be remembered and considered as an expert in a relevant field, you must remain etched in people's minds thanks to an image and reputation that speak for you.

Find out now how to find your identity in your market and how to emerge thanks to your personal brand.

Vendi senza costi - edizione AI

Gabriele Pantaleo

Are you tired of seeing your business budget consumed by expensive ads that don't deliver lasting results? Sell Without Cost is the guide you've been waiting for.

In this book, Gabriele Pantaleo –one of the leading SEO experts in Italy, with over 15 years of experience– reveals a concrete, simple, and counter-current strategy for achieving quality traffic and transforming it into consistent sales.

What will you learn from reading this book?

How to position your business at the top of Google without relying on advertising.
How to attract customers continuously and sustainably.
How to save on ever-increasing advertising costs and get real results with SEO.

Suitable for entrepreneurs, professionals and marketers, Sell Without Cost offers you a practical method to transform your website into a real conversion machine, eliminating the need to depend on expensive and often ineffective advertising platforms.

If you want to grow your business while saving time and money, this book is your ally.

Trame di guerra

Lorenzo Tondo

In this lucid and passionate essay, the fruit of his field experience, Lorenzo Tondo gives voice to those who experience that plot firsthand.

Through these and other stories, Tondo recomposes the design of a larger, undeclared but already ongoing war: that of the Axis of Autocracies –Russia, China, Iran and North Korea– against the West. It shows the invisible links between conflict and global arms trafficking, revealing the chains of cause and effect that unite seemingly distant fronts. And he does so with the gaze of someone who has learned to tell the story of war up close: with empathy, attention, and the belief that every life deserves to be heard.

After reading this book, it will become clearer why a missile launched from Tel Aviv to Beirut could shift the balance of power in Damascus, or how a drone over Kharkiv risks setting Tehran ablaze; the same weapons, produced in the most diverse corners of the Earth, migrate from one conflict to another, blurring responsibilities and blurring the lines between conventional warfare and terrorism. And it will be clear why it seems anachronistic to wait for a solemn declaration or a sensational event that will start World War III. Because it has already begun and is being fought, simultaneously in different parts of the world, before our eyes.

Non basta voler bene. Guida per diventare adulti di riferimento per ragazzi che crescono online

Barbara Milini e Laura Salanti (Preface)

Loving your children well has never been questioned. Being present today is much more complex. Young people grow up in a world where relationships, identity, intimacy, and confrontation also pass through digital: a space many adults have encountered as adults and often struggle to fully interpret. It's not enough to love is not a technical manual on social media, nor an alarmist text. It's a guide designed for parents and educators who want to navigate without panic, recognize real risks-from cyberbullying to grooming, from sexting to digital reputation-and acquire concrete tools to guide kids with greater awareness. Page after page, the book invites you to shift your gaze from control to relationship, from fear to understanding, offering reflections, examples, and operational checklists to address digital as an integral part of growth. Because today we don't need perfect adults, but reliable adults, capable of listening, asking questions, and becoming credible reference points for kids growing up online.

Contemporary PR. Sei riflessioni scomode ma utili per i manager della comunicazione

Michele Rinaldi

This book was born from a (bitter) observation and a (strong) belief: while marketing rewrote its rules and social media reinvented conversations, public relations remained stagnant, sending out press releases. Yet, PR didn't die, they just fell far behind.

Contemporary PR invites communications professionals to rethink public relations from a different, more current perspective, starting with six reflections, likely unwelcome to most but necessary, for those who understand that a brand –or a company – doesn't just need to be seen: it needs to be understood, recognized, and chosen.

With direct and ironic language, Michele Rinaldi dismantles clichés, rereads the dynamics of the sector, and proposes a new idea of PR: less operationalization and more orchestration; less “newspaper outings” and more stories that build trust; less chatter and more value.

This book is for those who feel that reputation is not measured in centimeters of press review but in the ability to generate authentic relationships, guide the narrative, and govern perceptions.

Not a manual, but a lucid manifesto for those who have decided to stop chasing visibility for its own sake, to start building relevance.

Gli algoritmi del potere.

Come l'intelligenza artificiale riscriverà la politica e la società

Davide Casaleggio

A guide to the new era of digital democracy and Artificial Intelligence to understand the nascent paradigms that will revolutionize society.

Once again.

The algorithms of power investigate how Artificial Intelligence is rewriting the rules of society, radically transforming our work but also, and above all, our way of being citizens and influencing power structures. Davide Casaleggio, a digital technology expert and architect of the first digital movement to go to government in a G7 country, discussed these issues at major international events, including a presentation at the UN. In this book, he explores the social and economic revolution triggered by AI, recognizing it as an epochal phenomenon, comparable in impact to that of electricity, but capable of spreading at an exponential rate, influencing political power, offering the ruling class unprecedented tools of persuasion, and placing the citizen at the center of a true revolution of his own. Talking with influential world leaders – from those who ran in the US presidential elections to the protagonists who catalyzed the Arab Spring, from the pioneers of digital voting in Estonia and Taiwan to spiritual figures of reference such as the Dalai Lama – Casaleggio identifies the opportunities and risks inherent in this transformation inviting us to fill the cultural and legislative gap that, even today, hampers the integration of innovation and democracy into a virtuous system.

Content Creator - Strategie, tattiche e strumenti per iniziare da zero e avere successo

Mattia Cittadino

This manual teaches you how to build a sustainable professional project with vision and method.

Through a direct and accessible approach, Mattia Cittadino guides the reader on a practical path that starts from the most common obstacles –fear of judgment, lack of time or skills– to monetize and become full-time professionals. Every aspect of content creation is explored: from target selection to message definition, from identifying platforms to setting workflows, from building collaborations to contractual and tax aspects, to creating a personal business, analyzing the strategies, tools, and the inevitable support of artificial intelligence to address each phase.

A comprehensive guide for those who want to transform their voice into an authentic and lasting activity, one content at a time.

A casa di Einstein. 6 lezioni nell'era della Superinnovazione

Daniele Manca e Gianmario Verona

What are Vasco Rossi and Steve Jobs doing together, Sam Altman and Descartes and above all why At Einstein's House? It could only be he, the timeless paradigm of genius, imagination and discovery who took us by the hand and guided us into the wonderful world of innovators, incubators, entrepreneurial stories and more, the failures and successes of those who understood that innovating and changing are not the same thing. On a phenomenal and captivating journey, Daniele Manca and Gianmario Verona (two "superexperts") draw six fundamental lessons (the secret ingredients) to survive and win in the age of superinnovation, innovation in the age of computers, large data sets, and artificial intelligence algorithms. With a specific goal: to help those who want to innovate and create (but also the institutions and policies of states) keep the bar straight, to turn difficulties into lessons. And to understand why the United States and China are the champions of this process, while Europe risks being left stranded. At Einstein's House is a book that, looking at examples from the past, puts together the pieces of the present to incessantly design and build the future. Because, as the two authors often repeat: «Innovators are not born. Innovators you become».

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