Founded in 1992, Libro Co. Italia is now a leader in the book distribution trade and an on-line store whose longstanding customers include the most important Italian, European
and American institutes (such as libraries, specialist organizations and museums), as well as internationally renowned antiquarian galleries, bookshops and collectors.
Over the years, we have considerably increased both the size of our catalogue and our range of activities, and today we offer the following services:
- book distribution and promotion both in Italy and abroad
- logistics
- wholesale for book stores
- book supply for libraries
- retail
- management and marketing of remaindered titles
- sourcing of rare and out-of-print books
- publishing of books and periodicals
In order to ensure the best standards of service, every single procedure and infrastructure has been tested to provide a high degree of efficiency.
Libro Co. Italia's strength lies in:
- cutting-edge IT solutions
- a wide, constantly updated and highly dependable data base
- a thorough and accurate information service
- highly competitive conditions of sale
- quick and reliable handling of orders
- tailored customer service
- a fast, secure and user-friendly web site
Libro Co. Italia is run by its founding partners, supported by a team which includes art historians, specialist staff, clerical personnel, IT experts and warehouse assistants,
all with a solid experience in the book trade.
At Libro Co. Italia we strive to meet the requirements of our loyal, registered customers by simplifying for them the procedures of book ordering and pre-ordering, as well as
the search function of titles both in print and out of print.
Our dedicated services for registered users include:
- custom discount chart, which may be browsed on-line after login
- even more favourable conditions on our special offers
- on-line tracking of orders, shippings and payments
- pre-order of forthcoming titles
- news bulletins on specific combinations of subjects, places or periods (e.g. Ceramics/Tuscany/Middle Ages)
- optimized shipping costs for multiple orders
- a wider range of payment options and longer payment terms
- quotations of out of print books
- wishlist
- sourcing of books not listed in our web catalogue
In the past few years, Libro Co. Italia has developed successful business relations with Italian and international academic bookstores, bookstore chains and franchising
networks, as well as independent book sellers and on-line book shops.
For this kind of business customers, we provide:
- exclusive distribution of more than 300 publishers
- brokerage of book orders
- shipping within 24 hours by express courier of all titles in stock
- pre-order of upcoming titles
- consignment stock in the bookstore
- ordering and invoicing via EDI
- electronic communication of unsold copies and bibliographic data
- bulletin of new titles and out-of-print books
- newsletters
Libro Co. Italia can also supply:
- new titles and books in print
- rare, antiquarian and collectible books
- remaindered books
The dedicated Booksellers area of our web site is specially designed to ensure easy navigation, and it groups in one place the most useful tools to streamline our interaction
with professional users. A PDF guide to this section of the web site is available on request.