Hachette Books

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<h3>Hyperion Books</h3>

Hyperion Books was founded in 1990 from scratch with no backlist under Disney's then-C.E.O. <a href="/facts/Michael_Eisner/AT9qkhHW">Michael Eisner</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a> and Robert S. Miller.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a> 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."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5">5</a> Hyperion Books for Children (HBC) and <a href="/facts/Disney_Press/nWay45dW">Disney Press</a> were also launched in 1990.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a> The <a href="/facts/Disney_Publishing_Worldwide/nWay45dW">Disney Publishing Group</a> was incorporated in January 1992<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a> and included the already formed Hyperion Books, Hyperion Books for Children, <a href="/facts/Disney_Press/nWay45dW">Disney Press</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Tim_Allen/pQY3N0LE">Tim Allen</a> with 1.1 million copies sold.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a> In March 1995 with the market too crowded with Disney books, Hyperion Books for Children merged with Disney Press.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a> Hyperion Books for Children started a new imprint, <a href="/facts/Jump_at_the_Sun/nWay45dW">Jump at the Sun</a>, on September 7, 1998, for the African-American children's market.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a> On April 9, 1999, Hyperion Books, sans its for-children stable mate, was transferred to Disney's <a href="/facts/Disney%E2%80%93ABC_Television_Group/2fFswnpu">ABC Group</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11">11</a>
On May 14, 2004, Hyperion and <a href="/facts/Wenner_Media/jvNexGTs">Wenner Media</a> agreed to a publishing and distribution deal for Wenner's new imprint Wenner Books beginning in spring 2005.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12">12</a> On September 28, 2007, Hyperion Books moved its offices from the ABC headquarters at 77 West 66th Street to the <a href="/facts/Disney_Publishing_Worldwide/nWay45dW">Disney Publishing Worldwide</a> offices at 114 Fifth Avenue, occupying two floors of the building, during the course of a partial move of Hyperion's operations to <a href="/facts/White_Plains,_New_York/PHadhoWa">White Plains, New York</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13">13</a>

<h3>Hachette Books</h3>
On June 28, 2013, <a href="/facts/Hachette_(publisher)/FRqH7Rq5">Hachette</a> announced that it would acquire Hyperion from Disney.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14">14</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Disney%E2%80%93ABC_Television_Group/2fFswnpu">Disney–ABC Television Group</a> properties and young adult titles will join the Disney-Hyperion imprint at <a href="/facts/Disney_Publishing_Worldwide/nWay45dW">Disney Publishing Worldwide</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15">15</a> On March 12, 2014, Hyperion was renamed Hachette Books, with the naming of <a href="/facts/Crown_Archetype/RmpMhKID">Crown Archetype</a>'s editor-in-chief Mauro DiPreta as the new unit's vice president and publisher.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16">16</a> On October 12, 2017, Hachette Book Group discontinued the <a href="/facts/The_Weinstein_Company/KJaYkokn">Weinstein Books</a> imprint due to the <a href="/facts/Harvey_Weinstein_sexual_abuse_allegations/zL3I3nBM">Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations</a>, with the imprint's staff and titles transferred to Hachette Books.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17">17</a>
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.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18">18</a> With Leventhal's announcement of his retirement on October 17, 2017, BD&L imprint was transferred to <a href="/facts/Running_Press/2ba8e2IC">Running Press</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19">19</a> In 2018, Hachette Books became an imprint of <a href="/facts/Perseus_Books_Group/VrSft6fY">Perseus Books Group</a>, with publisher DiPreta exiting the unit. Concurrently, <a href="/facts/Da_Capo_Press/0sgNkHx4">Da Capo Press</a> and Da Capo's Lifelong became part of Hachette.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20">20</a> On April 8, 2019, the Perseus Books Group hired Disney Publishing's Mary Ann Naples as vice president and publisher of Hachette Books.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21">21</a>

<h2 id="best-sellers">Best sellers</h2>
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<li>Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man (1994) by <a href="/facts/Tim_Allen/pQY3N0LE">Tim Allen</a></li>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.hachettebooks.com/">Official website</a> </li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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