A production of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and storielibere.fm, in partnership with cultural association Monteverdelegge What form will the books of the future take? How will the publishing industry evolve in the coming decades? What relationship do we think there will be between the practice of reading, basically very physical, and the virtual sphere, which seems to attract us more every day? These are questions that Italian publishing houses, and not just them, are continuously asking themselves. Leafing through the letters of Alfabeto italiano, the page opens at the letter V: V for Virtual, the word on which we alight on this stage of our journey through Italian publishing, a word that was rarely used just a few decades ago and that now we come across frequently, very often in association with an apparently contrasting term: reality. With Gino Roncaglia (Università Roma Tre) and Mauro Morellini (Extended Book).