The French public budget › Media, books & cultural industries · State · 2026
Books and cultural industries
Books and reading, cultural industries: the 2nd largest of the 2 parts of “Media, books & cultural industries”.
341M€
voted for 2026 in the State budget (budget act)
Year by year
Spent in 2024348M€
Spent in 2025343M€
Voted for 2026341M€
What it pays for, planned in the draft budget for 2025
Books and reading91%327M€
Cultural industries9%31M€
Source: 2024 actual spending (budget outturn act) ↗, 2025 actual spending (budget outturn act) ↗, 2026 budget act as passed ↗, State budget bill for 2025 (data.economie.gouv.fr) ↗.