| Type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, United States |
| Parent | Hachette Livre |
| Divisions | Little, Brown and Company Little, Brown Books for Young Readers FaithWords Hachette Digital Media Orbit |
| Subsidiaries | Grand Central Publishing |
| Website | HachetteBookGroup.com |
Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the second largest publisher in the world. Hachette Livre is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Group. HBG was formed when Hachette Livre purchased the Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner on March 31, 2006.[1] Its headquarters are in 237 Park Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York City.[2][3] Hachette is considered one of the "Big Six" publishing companies, along with Holtzbrinck/Macmillan, Penguin Putnam, HarperCollins, Random House and Simon & Schuster.[4]
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The earliest publisher to eventually become part of the Hachette Book Group was Little, Brown and Company, founded in 1837, acquired by Time Inc. in 1968.
Warner Communications had acquired the Paperback Library in 1970 to form Warner Books.[5] In 1982, CBS Publications sold off Popular Library to Warner.[6] In April 1985, Warner Books relaunched Popular Library starting out with five other books plus the reprint of Question of Upbringing continuing each month with the follow volumes from A Dance to the Music of Time series by Anthony Powell. Additional, two books would be issued per month from Popular's new imprint, Questar, for science fiction.[7] Time merged with Warner Communications to form Time Warner in 1989.[8] Publisher Macdonald & Co. was bought in 1992 to become part of the Time Warner Book Group UK, and in 1996 the various branches merged to become Time Warner Trade Publishing, later renamed to Time Warner Book Group. In 2003, Time Warner attempted to sell the Book Group but failed to get high enough bids. In March 2006, Time Warner completed the sale of Book Group to Lagardère to be place under its Hachette Livre book publishing arm.[9] Its Warner Books subsidiary renamed itself Grand Central Publishing in March 2006. Grand Central also launched a more literary imprint, Twelve, under former Random House editor in chief Jonathan Karp.[10] On February 5, 2010, Hachette announced that it would adopt an agency pricing model for its ebooks.[11]
Hachette has acquired a number of publishing brands aimed at different markets, and these brands themselves contain sub-imprints which are used to publish to an even more targeted audience. Imprints include:[12]
| Imprint name | Market | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Center Street | Traditional values | Main publishing division |
| FaithWords | Christian Inspirational | Main publishing division |
| Grand Central Publishing | General market and best-sellers | Formerly Warner Books, has several imprints |
| 5-Spot | Women's fiction | Imprint of Grand Central Publishing |
| Business Plus | Business publications | Imprint of Grand Central Publishing |
| Forever | Romance novels | Imprint of Grand Central Publishing |
| Grand Central Life & Style | Lifestyle & wellness | Imprint of Grand Central Publishing |
| Twelve | Various | Publishes one book per month that aspires to be high quality; imprint of Grand Central Publishing |
| Vision | Various | Mass-market, "blockbuster" products; imprint of Grand Central Publishing |
| Hachette Digital | Audiobooks and digital books | Publishes Hachette Audio |
| Little, Brown and Company | American fiction and non-fiction | Focuses on "works of lasting significance"; published Little Women; one of the oldest publishers in the United States; 1 U.S.C. § 113 |
| Back Bay Books | Trade paperbacks of fiction and non-fiction including classics and literature | Imprint of Little, Brown and Company |
| Reagan Arthur Books | great writing in the service of great stories, http://www.reaganarthurbooks.com | Imprint of Little, Brown and Company |
| Mulholland Books | publishes crime novels, thrillers, police procedurals, spy stories, supernatural suspense, | Imprint of Little, Brown and Company |
| Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Picture books, hard and softcover fiction and non-fiction for young readers | Has several imprints |
| LB Kids | Novelty and brand tie-ins | Imprint of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Poppy | Teen girls [13] | Imprint of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; publishes the series: Gossip Girl, Poseur, It Girl, The A-List, Secrets of My Hollywood Life, and the Clique. |
| Orbit Books | Science fiction and fantasy http://www.orbitbooks.net/ | |
| Yen Press | Graphic novels and manga | An imprint of Orbit Books [14] |
Many imprints have been acquired by the Hachette Group and the companies that were merged to form the group. Many are no longer active.