The North American division of Hachette outlines its program of optional and mandatory in-office work for staffers, with dates for reopenings.
Hachette Book Group Announces Diversity Progress in 2020
The Hachette Book Group workforce in 2020 was 3.9 percent black, the company says, 6.7 percent Asian, 20 percent Hispanic or Latinx.
Hachette Book Group: 2-Percent Rise in Carbon Footprint
Hachette Book Group releases an environmental progress report, which found that paper accounts for 95% of the publisher’s carbon footprint.
US Book Industry Charitable Foundation Raises $1 Million for Bookstores
Ingram Content Group seeds Binc’s ‘Survive to Thrive’ bookstore grant program, with additional major support from publishers and Bookshop.org.
AAP Officers: Wiley CEO Brian Napack Is Chair, Hachette CEO Pietsch is Vice-Chair
‘Brian Napack helms the AAP board, saying, ‘A vibrant, independent publishing industry plays an essential role in our democracy.’
Hachette USA Cancels Publication of Woody Allen Book, ‘After Listening’
After Hachette Book Group employees walk out in protest–and Ronan Farrow breaks with the publisher–the Big Five house reverses course on Woody Allen’s memoir.
Hachette USA Employees Walk Out to Protest Woody Allen Book
Between 75 and 100 Hachette Book Group employees in New York City and Boston condemn their publisher’s acquisition of Woody Allen’s autobiography, as Ronan Farrow leaves Hachette in protest.
Remembering Ed Victor: ‘Ferocious Negotiating Skills’ and ‘Inexorable Charm’
Known for agency-publishing innovation and for his mastery of a personality-driven business, literary agent Ed Victor is recalled by publishing leaders.