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Hachette Book Group, Inc.The pronunciations in English include an approximation of the , and a version with hard h, . ( HBG) is an American-based publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world. Hachette Livre is an indirect subsidiary of Louis Hachette Group, controlled by the French Bolloré family, which also controls Universal Music Group, Havas, and Canal+. HBG was formed when Hachette Livre purchased the Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner on March 31, 2006. Its headquarters are located at 1290 Avenue of the Americas, Midtown Manhattan, New York City." FAQs ." Hachette Book Group. Retrieved April 17, 2011. "Hachette Book Group Marketing Department 237 Park Avenue New York, NY 10017". Hachette is considered one of the "big five" publishing companies, along with Holtzbrinck/Macmillan, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster. On an annual basis, HBG publishes approximately 1400 adult books (including 50–100 digital-only titles), 300 books for young readers, and 450 audiobook titles (including both physical and downloadable-only titles). In 2017, the company had 167 books on The New York Times Best Seller list, 34 of which reached No. 1.
In April 1985, Warner Books relaunched Popular Library. Questar was Popular's new imprint for science fiction. Also in 1985, Warner acquired audiobook publisher Network for Learning and renamed it Warner Audio.
Time Warner was formed in 1989 by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. This brought in the earliest publisher to eventually become part of the Hachette Book Group, Little, Brown and Company, founded in 1837 and acquired by Time Inc. in 1968.
Publisher Macdonald & Co. was bought in 1992 to become part of the Time Warner Book Group UK, and in 1996 the various branches merged to become Time Warner Trade Publishing, later renamed as AOL Time Warner Book Group.
On April 11, 2012, the United States Department of Justice filed United States v. Apple Inc., naming Apple, Hachette, and four other major publishers as defendants. The suit alleged that they conspired to fix prices for e-books, and weaken Amazon.com's position in the market, in violation of antitrust law. In December 2013, a federal judge approved a settlement of the antitrust claims, in which Hachette and the other publishers paid into a fund that provided credits to customers who had overpaid for books due to the price-fixing.
On June 28, 2013, Hachette announced it would acquire Hachette Books from Disney Publishing Worldwide. On March 12, 2014, Hyperion was renamed Hachette Books, with the naming of Crown Archetype's editor-in-chief Mauro DiPreta as vice president and publisher.
In May 2014, Amazon.com announced it was no longer taking pre-orders for Hachette books, stating a breakdown in negotiations over profit-sharing arrangements. According to Hachette, Amazon had also stopped discounting its books, sending prices of Hachette titles in the U.S. to more than twice what they were selling for in the UK. Amazon published a letter on August 10, 2014 asking authors and readers to email Hachette's CEO Michael Pietsch and ask for lower e-book prices. Pietsch reportedly replied to each message he received.
In November 2014, Hachette announced that it had entered into an agreement to purchase nonfiction publisher Black Dog & Leventhal. The sale was finalized in January 2015, and Black Dog & Leventhal became an imprint of the Hachette Books publishing division.
In June 2014, the company in conjunction with Ingram Content Group, and Perseus Books Group, announced a three-way deal whereby Hachette would buy Perseus and then sell that company's client services businesses to Ingram. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The deal was called off on August 7, 2014. On March 6, 2016, HBG announced that it had entered into a binding agreement to purchase the publishing division of The Perseus Books Group. Perseus's distribution business was sold to Ingram in a separate move. The sale was completed in April 2016, and the publishing business joined HBG as the Perseus Books publishing group.
In April 2016, HBG announced an agreement to create a joint venture with the Yen Press imprint and Japanese publisher Kadokawa. Yen Press became known as Yen Press LLC, and is no longer considered an imprint of HBG's Orbit publishing division.
On September 17, 2018, Hachette acquired the Christian publisher Worthy Publishing. This was followed by a reorganization in November, in which Worthy Publishing and FaithWords merged their teams under the Hachette Nashville division, and Hachette Books was moved under the Perseus Books division while taking the Da Capo Press staff and imprints. A total of 25 employees were leaving in the move, including Mauro DiPreta (Hachette Books' vice president and publisher) and John Radziewicz (Da Capo Press's vice president and publisher). Basic Books will also take on Seal Press, which it will continue as an imprint.
On June 1, 2020, Hachette was one of a group of publishers who sued the Internet Archive, arguing that its collection of e-books was denying authors and publishers revenue and accusing the library of "willful mass copyright infringement".
Grand Central Publishing is an independent publishing division within Hachette. It was previously known as Warner Books.
| Grand Central Publishing | General market and best-sellers |
| Forever | |
| Forever Yours | Digital books |
| Grand Central Life & Style | Lifestyle and wellness |
| Twelve | Literature and nonfiction |
| Vision | Mass market editions |
| Hachette Audio | Flagship imprint |
| Hachette Audio Powered by Wattpad | Adaptations of works originally published on Wattpad. |
| Hachette Audio Podcasts | Original podcasts |
| Hachette Nashville | Christian works |
| Center Street | Conservative and military works |
| FaithWords | Christian inspirational |
| Worthy | Christian best sellers |
| WorthyKids/Ideals | Children's works |
| Little, Brown and Company | Fiction and non-fiction |
| Back Bay Books | Trade paperback editions |
| Mulholland Books | Mystery, suspense and speculative fiction |
| Spark | Health and wellness |
| Voracious | Illustrated books |
| JIMMY Patterson | Children's books. Founded by James Patterson. |
| Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Picture books and non-fiction for young readers. |
| LB Kids | Novelty and brand tie-ins. |
| Poppy | Fiction for young women. |
| Orbit | Science fiction and fantasy |
| Redhook | Mass market editions |
| Perseus Books | Flagship imprint |
| Avalon Travel | Guidebooks and travel literature |
| Basic Books | Non-fiction |
| Da Capo Press | Pop culture and wellness, under Hachette Books |
| Hachette Books | Non-fiction and general interest. Formerly Hyperion Books |
| PublicAffairs | History, economics and public affairs |
| Running Press | Pop culture, inspirational and adult tie-ins. |
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