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{{Infobox publisher | image = [[File:Hachette Books logo.svg|frameless|class=skin-invert]] | parent = [[Perseus Books Group]]<br/>([[Hachette (publisher)|Hachette]]) | status = | founded = {{start date and age|1990}}<ref name=lat/> | founder = [[Michael Eisner]]<ref name=lat/><br>Robert S. Miller<ref name=lat0/> | successor = | country = United States | headquarters = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S. | distribution = | keypeople = Susan Weinberg ([[Senior vice president|SVP]] and publisher, Perseus Books Group)<br/>Mary Ann Naples (vice president and publisher) | publications = Books | topics = | genre = | imprints = {{ubl|Hachette Go|[[Da Capo Press]]|Lifelong}} | revenue = | numemployees = | nasdaq = | website = }}
'''Hachette Books''', formerly '''Hyperion Books''', is a general-interest book imprint of the [[Perseus Books Group]], which is a division of [[Hachette (publisher)|Hachette Book Group]] and ultimately a part of [[Lagardère Group]]. Established in 1990, Hachette publishes general-interest fiction and non-fiction books for adults. A former subsidiary of [[The Walt Disney Company]], it was originally named after Hyperion Avenue, the location of [[Walt Disney Studios (Burbank)|Walt Disney Studios]] prior to 1939. Hachette took over a 1,000 book [[backlist]] when Hyperion was purchased from Disney in 2013<ref name=pw/> with 250 [[bestseller|bestselling novels]], including [[Mitch Albom]]'s ''[[The Five People You Meet in Heaven]]''.<ref name=bb/>
==History== ===Hyperion Books=== [[File:Hyperion Books logo.svg|thumb|260px|Logo of Hyperion Books, former name of Hachette Books]] Hyperion Books was founded in 1990 from scratch with no backlist under Disney's then-C.E.O. [[Michael Eisner]]<ref name=lat>{{cite news|last=Harris|first=Kathryn|title=The Tie-In King : Hyperion Books Rides the Crest of Disney's Successes|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-30-fi-60706-story.html|access-date=12 December 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=April 30, 1995}}</ref> and Robert S. Miller.<ref name=lat0>Getlin, Josh. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-04-et-webbook4-story.html Hyperion founder exits]. April 04, 2008. Los Angeles Times. Accessed July 3, 2013.</ref> Hyperion's strategy was to not purchase backlists, but to go after newer or lesser known authors and to "capitalize on Disney talent and products."<ref name=lat/> Hyperion Books for Children (HBC) and [[Disney Press]] were also launched in 1990.<ref name=lat/> The [[Disney Publishing Worldwide|Disney Publishing Group]] was incorporated in January 1992<ref name=ny>{{cite web|title=DISNEY PUBLISHING WORLDWIDE, INC.|url=http://appext9.dos.ny.gov/corp_public/CORPSEARCH.ENTITY_INFORMATION?p_nameid=1696053&p_corpid=1619103&p_entity_name=%44%69%73%6E%65%79&p_name_type=%25&p_search_type=%42%45%47%49%4E%53&p_srch_results_page=2|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130107152035/http://appext9.dos.ny.gov/corp_public/CORPSEARCH.ENTITY_INFORMATION?p_nameid=1696053&p_corpid=1619103&p_entity_name=Disney&p_name_type=%25&p_search_type=BEGINS&p_srch_results_page=2|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 7, 2013|work=Entity Information|publisher=State of New York|access-date=11 December 2012}}</ref> and included the already formed Hyperion Books, Hyperion Books for Children, [[Disney Press]] and other units. Hyperion took losses until 1994 when it published its most successful book to date, ''Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man'' by [[Tim Allen]] with 1.1 million copies sold.<ref name=lat/> In March 1995 with the market too crowded with Disney books, Hyperion Books for Children merged with Disney Press.<ref name=lat/> Hyperion Books for Children started a new imprint, [[Jump at the Sun]], on September 7, 1998, for the African-American children's market.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Angel |first=Karen |date=1998-09-07 |title=Books And Magazines; Children And Families; Media Talk; High-Profile Authors Turn To Much Younger Readers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/07/business/books-magazines-children-families-media-talk-high-profile-authors-turn-much.html |access-date=2025-04-21 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> On April 9, 1999, Hyperion Books, sans its for-children stable mate, was transferred to Disney's [[Disney–ABC Television Group|ABC Group]].<ref>{{cite news |last=McGee |first=Celia |date=April 9, 1999 |title=Grownups Take Hike At Disney |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/1999/04/09/grownups-take-hike-at-disney/ |access-date=2025-04-21 |newspaper=New York Daily News}}</ref>
On May 14, 2004, Hyperion and [[Wenner Media]] agreed to a publishing and distribution deal for Wenner's new imprint Wenner Books beginning in spring 2005.<ref>{{cite news|title=Wenner Books Announces Venture with Hyperion|url=http://www.writenews.com/2004/051404_wenner_hyperion.htm|access-date=July 3, 2013|work=The Write News|publisher=xvc|date=May 14, 2004}}</ref> On September 28, 2007, Hyperion Books moved its offices from the ABC headquarters at 77 West 66th Street to the [[Disney Publishing Worldwide]] offices at 114 Fifth Avenue, occupying two floors of the building, during the course of a partial move of Hyperion's operations to [[White Plains, New York]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Hyperion to Move Downtown|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/8598-hyperion-to-move-downtown.html|author=Jim Milliot|work=[[Publishers Weekly]]|date=September 28, 2007}}</ref>
===Hachette Books=== On June 28, 2013, [[Hachette (publisher)|Hachette]] announced that it would acquire Hyperion from Disney.<ref name=bb>{{cite news|last1=Lee|first1=Edmund|title=Hachette Will Acquire Disney's Hyperion Book Publishing Business|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-28/hachette-will-acquire-disney-s-hyperion-book-publishing-business.html|access-date=July 3, 2013|work= Bloomberg.com|date=June 28, 2013}}</ref> In the deal, Hachette will take on Hyperion's adult trade list including works by Mitch Albom and Michael J. Fox and 25 books to be published. Hyperion's books related to existing [[Disney–ABC Television Group]] properties and young adult titles will join the Disney-Hyperion imprint at [[Disney Publishing Worldwide]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Disney Sells Hyperion Adult Trade List to Hachette|url=http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/disney-sells-hyperion-adult-trade-list-to-hachette/|access-date=July 3, 2013|work=digitalbookworld|date=June 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903230539/http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/disney-sells-hyperion-adult-trade-list-to-hachette/|archive-date=September 3, 2017}}</ref> On March 12, 2014, Hyperion was renamed Hachette Books, with the naming of [[Crown Archetype]]'s editor-in-chief Mauro DiPreta as the new unit's vice president and publisher.<ref name=pw>{{cite news|title=DiPreta Named Publisher of Hachette Books|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/61405-dipreta-named-publisher-of-hachette-books.html|access-date=May 5, 2018|work=PublishersWeekly.com|publisher=PWxyz|date=March 12, 2014|language=en}}</ref> On October 12, 2017, Hachette Book Group discontinued the [[The Weinstein Company#Weinstein Books|Weinstein Books]] imprint due to the [[Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations]], with the imprint's staff and titles transferred to Hachette Books.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Maher|first1=John|title=Hachette Shutters Weinstein Books|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/75058-hachette-shutters-weinstein-books-imprint.html|access-date=May 7, 2018|work=PublishersWeekly.com|publisher=PWxyz|date=October 12, 2017|language=en}}</ref>
On January 8, 2015, Black Dog & Leventhal (BD&L) was purchased by Hachette Book Group and became an imprint of Hachette Books, with J.P. Leventhal, continuing his position as publisher of the imprint he founded in 1992.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Milliot|first1=Jim|title=Hachette Completes Black Dog Buy|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/industry-deals/article/65212-hachette-completes-black-dog-buy.html|access-date=May 7, 2018|work=PublishersWeekly |publisher= PWxyz |date=January 8, 2015|language=en}}</ref> With Leventhal's announcement of his retirement on October 17, 2017, BD&L imprint was transferred to [[Running Press]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Maher|first1=John|title=J.P. Leventhal to Retire, BD&L Folded Into Running Press|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/75115-j-p-leventhal-to-retire-bd-l-folded-into-running-press.html |access-date= May 7, 2018 |work= PublishersWeekly |publisher=PWxyz |date=October 17, 2017 |language=en}}</ref> In 2018, Hachette Books became an imprint of [[Perseus Books Group]], with publisher DiPreta exiting the unit. Concurrently, [[Da Capo Press]] and Da Capo's Lifelong became part of Hachette.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Hachette Book Group Reorganizes Lines, Announces About 25 Layoffs As DiPreta Departs| work = Publishers Lunch| access-date = 2018-12-30| date = 2018-11-13| url = https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2018/11/hachette-book-group-reorganizes-lines-announces-layoffs-as-dipreta-departs/}}</ref> On April 8, 2019, the Perseus Books Group hired Disney Publishing's Mary Ann Naples as vice president and publisher of Hachette Books.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Maher |first1=John |title=Naples Named Publisher at Hachette Books |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/79747-naples-named-publisher-at-hachette-books.html |access-date=January 13, 2020 |work=PublishersWeekly.com |date=April 8, 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
==Best sellers== * ''[[The Last Lecture]]'' by [[Randy Pausch]] * ''[[Scar Tissue (autobiography)|Scar Tissue]]'' by [[Anthony Kiedis]] * ''[[The Ghost and The Goth]]'' by [[Stacey Kade]] * ''[[The Five People You Meet in Heaven]]'' by [[Mitch Albom]] * ''Always Looking Up'' by [[Michael J. Fox]] * ''Jamie’s Food Revolution'' by chef Jamie Oliver<ref name=bb/> * ''The Middle Place'' by Kelly Corrigan<ref name=bb/> * ''Monsters of Templeton'' by Lauren Groff<ref name=bb/> * ''The Tender Bar'' by JR Moehringer<ref name=bb/> * ''The Domestic Goddess'' by chef Nigella Lawson<ref name=bb/> * ''Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man'' (1994) by [[Tim Allen]] * ''The Beardstown Ladies' Common-Sense Investment Guide'' (1995) * ''Dixie City Jam'' by [[James Lee Burke]] * ''Wayne's World'' by [[Mike Myers]] * "Regis & Kathie Lee" ** "Cooking with . . ." ** "Entertaining with . . ." * "Birnbaum's Walt Disney World" * "Hope's Boy" by [[Andrew Bridge (lawyer)|Andrew Bridge]] * ''Pulp Fiction'' screenplay via [[Miramax]]<ref name=lat/> * ''[[Percy Jackson & the Olympians]]'', ''[[The Heroes of Olympus]]'', ''[[The Kane Chronicles]]'', and ''[[Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard]]'' by [[Rick Riordan]] * ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' by [[Eoin Colfer]] *''[[The War on Normal People]]'' by 2020 Democratic Candidate [[Andrew Yang]]
==References== {{Reflist |25em}}
== External links == * {{Official website}}
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