Edizioni ETS is a publishing house founded in Pisa in 1961. Initially focused on technical and scientific textbooks, the publishing house gradually shifted its focus to non-fiction literature, which now constitutes the core of its catalogue. Thanks in part to the location of its headquarters, at the crossroads of three prestigious universities, Edizioni ETS has been able to consolidate and expand its relationships with academic publishers, thanks to the rigor of its choices, the reliability of its content and the care taken in its publications.

The publishing house now collaborates with research groups based at various universities in Italy and abroad. Thanks to its varied interests, Edizioni ETS has devoted itself to various forms of publication, including monographs, journals, manuals, miscellanies and even e-books, thus establishing itself in the research publishing landscape. Its catalogue includes several thousand non-fiction publications, mainly in the humanities. Edizioni ETS's longest-running series are devoted to the humanities, especially philosophy, literature, historical studies, gender studies, sociology and pedagogy, archaeology and art history, music, cinema and theatre.

After more than sixty years in business, Edizioni ETS has remained true to its original vocation: alongside books aimed at the world of academia and the professions, it has expanded its range to include a series of titles aimed at the general reader, such as in-depth readings covering a wide range of subject areas. Facing the challenges of an ever-changing sector, Edizioni ETS is now a flexible and competitive publisher, capable of exploring new avenues without forgetting its original mission: to create and circulate “the words of a thousand essays”.

The Edizioni ETS catalogue includes more than 150 editorial series. Most of them were created on the initiative of research groups, which carry them out in close collaboration with the Edizioni ETS editorial staff. Among the historical series is the "Philosophica" series, dedicated to philosophy texts and created in the early 2000s on the initiative of a group of professors from the University of Pisa (Paolo Cristofolini, Adriano Fabris, Leonardo Amoroso, Maurizio Iacono, Gianfranco Fioravanti). 

Gender studies are covered by "àltera", one of the first experiments of its kind in Italy, born from the intuition of Liana Borghi and her colleagues and friends. àltera has published major works never before translated into Italian (above all, Audre Lorde's Zami, translated by Borghi) as well as monographic and collective essays. 

"Ianua", "Scienze dell'Educazione" (with over 230 titles published), "Ricerca educativa e innovazione tecnologica" and "Education" are dedicated to pedagogy and educational sciences, reflecting the complex debate surrounding education in today's difficult world. 

High-quality translation has been one of Edizioni ETS's key objectives since its early decades. Foreign works unpublished in Italian are selected by ETS and its collaborators with great care: Pelle nere, maschere bianche by Frantz Fanon (translated by Silvia Chiletti), Studi di filosofia antica by Pierre Hadot (translated by Laura Cremonesi), Etica by Baruch Spinoza (translated by Paolo Cristofolini).