Hachette Book Group Saw Diversity Gains in Staff, Book Acquisitions in 2020 By Jim Milliot May 13, 2021 BIPOC employees represented 47.8% of new hires by the Hachette Book Group in 2020, and the percentage of titles acquired from BIPOC authors and illustrators increased to 29%, from 22%. CEO Michael Pietsch acknowledged that despite the improvement, much more work needs to be done. Hachette Book Group Saw Diversity Gains in Staff, Book Acquisitions in 2020 By Jim Milliot | May 13, 2021
Hachette Book Group made progress in diversifying its workforce and book acquisitions in 2020, but CEO Michael Pietsch acknowledged that there is much more work to be done.
According to the publisher’s second annual diversity update report, 47.8% of new hires in 2020 identified as BIPOC, led by the recruitment of new Hispanic/Latinx employees, who represented 37.5% of all new staffers. With the new diversity effort, white people now account for 67
A three-day digital program, the US Book Show–which lies on the calendar where BookExpo did–is announcing panel discussions, with programming to include exhibtion and networking.
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Early Bird Tickets Now on Sale
Not long after ReedPop “retired” BookExpo in December, it was announced that a “new American publishing trade fair” would be put into place.
Today (April 14), the US Book Show, that stand-in for what had been the long-running BookExpo, is announcing some early programing elements of what will be a digital event running May 25 to 27.
The programming announced today by the show’s producer,