Publishing houses

In January, David Shelley took on a new role for Hachette, as CEO of an English-language management structure that united Hachette U.K. and the Hachette Book Group in the U.S.  Read more

After rising costs and sluggish sales cut into profits at HarperCollins, Lagardère Publishing, and Penguin Random House in the first half of 2023, operating margins have bounced back for all three in the first six months of 2024. Lagardère and HarperCollins in particular had marked improvements, with profits soaring on modest sales increases.

Ever since I joined PW in April 1993, my objective has been to write and publish articles that would help everyone in the publishing industry succeed. Leveling the playing field by providing information to help smaller companies and startups compete with entrenched players has been a guiding principle.  Read more

Amid historic disruption in the publishing industry, big questions are-rightfully-being asked. Here, experts weigh in on how books (and the ways we discover them) are going to change.

The rich have got richer as the top 10 global publishing groups saw a collective double-digit jump in sales in 2022. Yet those just outside the highest echelon stuttered, with revenue flat or falling for the next tiers of international conglomerates, as post-pandemic and cost-of-living crisis slowdowns took a toll.