Yen Press Announces Global Partnership with Hachette
NEW YORK, NY – (11/14/24) – Yen Press announced a new global partnership with Hachette UK, Hachette India, and Hachette Australia to handle sales and distribution to s and retailers outside of North America. Services for Yen Press will go live through Hachette UK starting 12/16/24, through Hachette India on 2/3/25, and Hachette Australia on 4/1/25.
Yen Press is the latest publisher to Hachette UK as part of their third-party expansion plans. Other noteworthy publishers who formed a partnership with Hachette UK include Profile Books, who ed in 2021; Elsevier, who ed in 2022; Flame Tree Publishing and British Library Publishing, who ed in 2023; Pinnacle Books and Lonely Planet, who ed earlier in 2024; and Hay House and Bloomsbury Publishing, who will in early 2025. Hachette UK is home to the most advanced warehousing technology in the UK publishing industry and has been a market leader in book distribution since 2020, aided by a strong sales team representing the distributor and their client publishers.
Russell Evans, Business Development Director, says, “We're all equally pleased and excited to be welcoming Yen Press to the Hachette family for sales and distribution services in the UK, India, Australia, and New Zealand. We already have the pleasure of working with Yen Press at Hachette Book Group US, so the inclusion of these additional territories makes this a truly global partnership.”
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About Yen Press, LLC
Yen Press, LLC, is a t venture between Yen Audio imprints. For more information, visit www.Yen Press.com.
About Hachette UK
Hachette UK's mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment, and opportunity, standing out as one of the United Kingdom's largest publishing groups, with twelve autonomous divisions, fifty imprints, and a rich and diverse history. The prolific publishing house is a market leader in ebooks and publishes a range of bestsellers in the audiobook format, the fastest growing part of their business. Hachette UK publishes thousands of new books every year from the likes of Hachette Children's Group publishes a diverse range of books for children of all ages, and Hodder Education is a market leader in resources for both primary and secondary schools. In 2022, Hachette UK welcomed Paperblanks, the second-largest stationery brand in the world, to the group. Hachette UK has offices throughout the entire United Kingdom, including a headquarters in London and the Hely Hutchinson Centre (HHC) for distribution in Didcot, with several subsidiaries in other regions, including Australia, India, Ireland, Jamaica, and New Zealand.