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Charting Publishers’ Performance: 2006 – 2013
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2014
Sales: 2.004 billion euros [-3% topline; -4.5% like-for-like]
EBIT: TK March 11
Q4: Sales Fall In Fourth Quarter and Full Year
Q3: Hachette US Book Sales Were Down 18.5 Percent In the Third Quarter
Lagardere Investor Presentation: Inside Hachette’s Books
First Half: Amazon Disputed Has “Limited” Or No Effect on Lagardere Publishing Results
Q1: Sales Fall
2013
Profits Flat at Lagardere
Finishes With Improved Fourth Quarter
2012: Sales rise but profits rise less
Estimated Results: 2002 – 2007
Amazon Dispute: Milestones
- 2/15: And Then There Were Three: New Hachette Agency Pricing Trickles In
- 11/14: Amazon and Hachette Finalize New Contract
- Vanity Fair on The Amazon War of 2014
- Simon & Schuster and Amazon Agree to Multi-Year Renewal, With Agency Restored
- Krugman Takes On Amazon
- Amazon, Hachette and Authors: The Complete Tamblyn Tweets
- Amazon: NYT Public Editor Calls For More Balanced Coverage
- Pietsch Responds to e-Mails: “This dispute started because Amazon is seeking a lot more profit”
- Amazon Posts for “Readers United”
- Update re: Amazon’s Awkward New Forum Post
- Survey: Dispute Is Driving Some Amazon Customers Away
- On Sincerity
- Amazon Proposes Authors Should Get 100% of eBook Sales and Everything Else “Will Return to Normal”
- Douglas Preston’s Open Letter from Authors “Goes Viral”
- Amazon Responds to German Trade Association Complaint
- German Trade Association Asks for Investigation
- Colbert Gives Amazon the Finger
- Two Wonky But Important Settlement Things People Get Wrong
- DOJ Dispatched As Weapon In Negotiations?
- Amazon Posts On Dispute: “We Are Not Optimistic That This Will Be Resolved Soon”
- Amazon Removes Pre-Orders on Forthcoming Titles
- Many Hachette Books Are Hard to Get From Amazon, As “Negotiations Are Underway”
Corporate
- Lagardere Boosts Stake In Russia’s Azbooka-Atticus to 49%
- Deal to Purchase Perseus Is Cancelled
- HBG to Buy Perseus Books Group
- Announces Layoffs of 28 People
- Hodder Purchase of Quercus Moves Forward
- Expands Indiana Warehouse
- Announces Move to 1290 Sixth Avenue
- Hachette to Close New Zealand Office; Cut 15 Jobs
- Buys Hyperion’s Adult List
- Resumes Sale of New eBooks to Libraries
- HBG Moves to Agency Lite
Imprints
- Grand Central Absorbs Business Plus
- DiPreta to Lead New Hachette Books Division
- GCT Expands Forever and Forever Yours