With Italy’s Antitrust Authority due to make a recommendation shortly on Mondadori‘s acquisition of RCS Media’s Rizzoli book publishing group, Italy’s La Repubblica has reported that the government will require the sale of three publishing lines. Mondadori managing director Ernesto Mauri had already indicated in a recent television interview the expectation that the company would have to give up publishers comprising about 3 percent market share in order to get approval for the deal, indicating they would sell Bompiani and Marsilio. But La Repubblica then reported over the weekend that the final report will call for the sale of Sonzogno as well, […]