Approximately 28 employees were let go by Hachette Book Group on Thursday (which termed the cutbacks as about 3 percent of total staff, without indicating an exact number), according to people familiar with internal announcement. Reductions were made throughout the company, rather than focused on any particular department, and they included some well-known longtime employees and people at the vice president level, plus at least three well-known, longstanding editors. (Per our informal policy, we’re inclined to only list names if people want their departures known.) While the job cuts will be viewed in the context of the current standoff with Amazon — and are likely […]