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Hachette Book Group USA
Hachette Book Group USA (HBG) was created when Hachette Livre, a French publishing company, acquired Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner in 2006. Hachette Livre is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lagardère, a company that is active on a worldwide basis in the areas of communications and media (books, press, audiovisual and distribution/retailing of cultural products). HBG is comprised of the following publishing divisions:| Grand Central Publishing 5-Spot Business Plus Forever Springboard Press Twelve Vision Wellness Central | FaithWords Center Street Little, Brown and Company Back Bay Books Orbit | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers LB Kids Poppy Yen Press Hachette Book Group Digital Media Hachette Audio |
In one year, HBG publishes approximately 450 adult books, 150 young adult and children's books, and 60 audio book titles.
In 2006, the company had a record 71 books on the New York Times bestseller list, with 17 of them ranked #1.
In addition to selling and distributing its own imprints, HBG distributes publishing lines for Chronicle, Microsoft Press, Arcade, Time Inc. Home Entertainment, Harry N. Abrams, Innovative Kids, Phaidon, Gildan Audio and Hyperion AudioBooks.
In 1996, the company opened a 500,000 square foot, state-of-the-art warehouse in Lebanon, Indiana. Since that time, this distribution complex has grown to over 900,000 square feet and moves over 90 million books annually.
HBG has offices in many locations:
New York, NY:
HBG main publishing office houses administrative services, advertising & promotion, art, contracts, digital media, editorial, executive administration, finance, human resources, information technology, international sales, inventory control and operations, legal, managing editorial, manufacturing & production, online marketing, publicity, sales & marketing, special markets, and subsidiary rights.
Book H2O by Howard Schatz published in 2007 by Hachette Books Group USA. Working with graceful dancers, performers, models, photographer H. Schatz has found an inspiration underwater. Athletic and mysterious, the figures in Schatz's work transfer the pool into art studio. This glamorous and aesthetically inspiring Schartz's book is the result of a collaboration with Beverly Ornstein, the award-winning producer, his wife and business partner.
One of the book published by Hachette Book Group - Grand Central Publishing - is Grace After Midnight by Felicia Pearson & David Ritz."I was born in Baltimore twenty-seven years ago, and then I died - twice. I died both times because my mother was filled with drugs and so was I." Felicia Pearson writes. "Crack babies are messed-up babies..." Snoop raised in a foster home. She proved that she was as tough as the streets. She thrived as a baby gangsta, until she landed in Jessup State Penitentiary for killing some woman in self-defense. There Snoop rebelled against the system... Eventually she turned her life around. This title tells that kids on the streets "can get over without killing people and selling packs..." This book first published in 2007, when Felicia Pearson was shooting two feature movies. She still lives in Baltimore.
References:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/103/103158.html
http://hbgusa.com/books/reading_guides.html
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071009005215&newsLang=en
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