About Us

Born in 1946, DEA soon became the most important Company for the distribution of International publishing in Italy, supplying bibliographic information and books from the World over, delivering them to Public and Private customers directly.


Through its 7 branches in Italy, offices and consolidation warehouses in different Countries (USA, UK, Germany, France, Russia, China, India, Japan and Australia), DEA supplies Italian and foreign editorial publications and entertainment products (Music, Film, Video games) all over the world, in very short time.


The experience acquired during more than 20 years in the Electronic Publications field, enables DEA to supply to its customers an exclusive professional advice and support service to create and develop information systems, to share and integrate databases (both bibliographic and in full text) and e-journals

5 Business units + 1 Technology unit

1. www.deastore.com
The DEA megastore: 28 million books from all over the world (English, American, French, Italian, Spanish, German), 100 million used books, 1 million E-Books, 600.000 music CDs, 120.000 DVD Film, 15.000 Video games, special offers, shipments by courier or mail all over the world and many solutions for the B2B (business to business) market.


2. Books
Supplying and distribution


3. Journals
Subscription service and distribution

4. E-Media
Distribution, Organization of consortia, Management of electronic resources


5. Entertainment
Distribution of Entertainment products: Music, Film, Video games, consumer electronics


6. Programming and development
The programming and development division of DEA is devoted to programme, develop and implement all the high technology solutions needed by the Company, as for instance the deastore.