Dear friends,

after four years, notwithstanding all the difficulties due to the terrible crisis we are undergoing in these times, the moment has come to make a choice: either we evolve or we succumb.

We believe in Booksweb more than ever, and we respect and are deeply grateful to the hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world who have contributed to the success of our project. This is why we are not going to surrender; instead, we are upping the ante.

We are updating and enriching our palimpsest; we are modernizing our structure in order to be everywhere the new technologies allow us; and we are forming new partnerships in order to become concretely international. The challenge is daring, but we are determined to win in spite of the sceptics.

In order to achieve these goals, lacking the resources that would allow us to do differently, we have chosen to momentarily suspend the output of our web tv. We will come back in January 2012, after the migration has been completed.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but we count on your solidarity and we are sure we will soon earn your forgiveness.

A warm hug to everybody and… see you soon!

Alessandra Casella