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Hachette steals the show

So it wasn't the Grinch that stole Christmas. It was Hachette Livre. Several of its companies had spectacular festive seasons, transforming a hitherto flat year for the UK's largest consumer publishing group. Yet Tim Hely Hutchinson,...

David Davidar: Fighting the fanatics with fire

Many publishers secretly believe they could make it as authors. But how many are prepared to wake up at 4 a.m. every day, to squeeze in a couple of hours of writing before the working day begins? That's the regime that Penguin Canada president...

Field of dreams

Here's a Dick Whittington story in reverse. In bleak, late-1970s Britain, a regional newspaper circulation manager by the name of Peter Field was down on his luck. "There was a miners' strike, power cuts—it was...