Hachette Book Group is a privately owned company headquartered in the US, founded in 2006, with approximately 1,360 employees. The company operates as a U.S. trade publisher specializing in book and periodical publishing, and functions as a division of the trade and educational book publisher Hachette Livre.
Hachette, along with Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster, comprising the "Big Five" English-language book publishing houses, sued the alleged pirated book website WeLib for copyright infringement in New York federal court on June 23, 2026. This legal action targets WeLib for allegedly illegally obtaining, reproducing, distributing, and profiting from copyrighted works. This follows news on June 21 that a group of five major publishing houses and bestselling author Scott Turow filed a separate copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta on May 5, 2026, accusing the company of illegally downloading millions of books and journal articles to train its Llama artificial intelligence models. Earlier, on June 15, Hachette Book Group (HBG) US Distribution held its 25th Annual $1 Book Sale at its Lebanon, Indiana, facility, emphasizing the global Raising Readers campaign. A portion of the proceeds from the sale benefited the Indy Book Project, an organization dedicated to ensuring children in the Indianapolis area have access to books.
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