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Hachette Book Group USA/Lagardere Publishing

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Earnings
Charting Publishers’ Performance: 2006 – 2013

Back to the Fourth Largest Trade Publisher

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

 

 

 

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