Hachette Livre ceo Arnaud Nourry was the headliner in the annual ceo interview at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Wednesday. Nourry reiterated the position of his parent company Lagardere, which has been putting their major “allocation of cash…towards other businesses” recently but remains ready for smaller investments in publishing. “As far as medium-size, fill-in acquisitions, we are and will remain very active,” Nourry made clear. On his shopping list, “In America, we would certainly be stronger in nonfiction and that’s an area where at the time we were looking at it, Perseus was a very good fit,” and the desire to […]
