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Appleton leaves Hachette Australia
Jon Appleton has finished in his position as publisher for Lothian Children's Books at Hachette Australia and has moved to the UK. (See News). ...
Appleton leaves Hachette Australia
Jon Appleton has finished in his position as publisher for Lothian Children's Books at Hachette Australia and has moved to the UK. Appleton finished in his position with Hachette Australia in 201...
EU opens investigation into ebooks
The European Commission has announced it has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether publishers Hachette Livre, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin and Holtzbrinck 'have,...
First OzCo Book2 grants recipients announced
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced the first three writers to receive grants through its Book2 program. Nam Le, Anna Krien and Favel Parrett will each receive a $...
Plagiarised spy novel withdrawn
Hodder & Stoughton UK is withdrawing the novel Assassin of Secrets by Q R Markham from sale, alongside its US publisher Little, Brown, after the announcement that the book contains 'numerous pla...
'Worst of Days' wins Colin Roderick Award
Worst of Days: Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm by Karen Kissane (Hachette) has won this year's Colin Roderick Award. Kissane will be presented with the $10,000 award and the H T Preistley Medal at...
Hachette and Bloomberg Businessweek to co-publish ebooks
Hachette Book Group is partnering with Bloomberg Businessweek magazine in the US to publish ebooks that 'will illuminate key moments in the world of business'.
Third quarter sales down at Hachette
Third quarter sales at Lagardere Publishing fell 5.2% in the third quarter, to 601 million Euros, with sales off 8% in the US and 10% in the UK, despite big growth in ebook sales.
S&S, Penguin and Hachette back Bookish, a new social reading platform
Simon & Schuster, Penguin and Hachette have collaborated to help launch Bookish, a new online 'social reading' platform that is intended to 'make recommendations about books that will appeal to a ...
Lagardere figures fall despite huge rise in Hachette ebook sales
Lagardere, parent company of Hachette, has reported that its sales revenues are down 10% in the first quarter; however Hachette is now seeing 22% of its book sales in the US coming from ebooks.
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