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Hachette Book Group history
Hachette Book Group company history timeline
2008 – Hachette Livre UK changes its name to Hachette UK
Reagan Arthur Books is created as a new editorial imprint of Little, Brown and Company, to begin publishing in the Fall 2009 season. (The imprint is retired when Reagan Arthur becomes publisher of Little, Brown and Company.)
In 2010 it was ranked by Publishers Weekly first among all United States publishers in the number of weeks its books spent on hardcover bestseller lists.
The imprint, later named Mulholland Books, begins publishing titles in the Spring of 2011.
2012 – Hachette UK acquires the Enid Blyton Estate
The Hachette Nashville division announces the creation of a new imprint, Jericho Books, a progressive, non-traditional faith-based imprint, which began publishing in the summer of 2012.
In June 2013, Hachette announced it would acquire Hyperion Books from Disney Publishing Worldwide.
In December 2013, a federal judge approved a settlement of the antitrust claims, in which Hachette and the other publishers paid into a fund that provided credits to customers who had overpaid for books due to the price-fixing.
HBG purchases adult trade publishing imprint Hyperion from The Walt Disney Company (deal closed 7/16/2013).
In March 2014, Hyperion was renamed Hachette Books, with the naming of Crown Archetype's editor-in-chief Mauro DiPreta as vice president and publisher.
In May 2014, Amazon.com announced it was no longer taking pre-orders for Hachette books, stating a breakdown in negotiations over profit-sharing arrangements.
In June 2014, the company in conjunction with Ingram Content Group, and Perseus Books Group, announced a three-way deal whereby Hachette would buy Perseus and then sell that company's client services businesses to Ingram.
In November 2014, Hachette announced that it had entered into an agreement to purchase nonfiction publisher Black Dog & Leventhal.
2014 – Hachette UK acquires Quercus
Little, Brown and Company announces the creation of a new imprint, Lee Boudreaux Books, which begins publishing in 2015.
HBG acquires Worthy Publishing, which becomes an imprint of Hachette Nashville (deal closed 9/17/2018). Worthy adds four sub-imprints: Ellie Claire Gifts, Museum of the Bible Books, Worthy Kids/Ideals, and Worthy Inspired.
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