Haste makes waste, and I regret that, in my haste to run a post about Hachette Filipacchi Media’s reduction of wages and increase in hours, I erred in stating that this is Hachette’s book division, which includes Little, Brown and Grand Central. Tim Coronel left a comment correcting me, which I reproduce in full below. I apologize to my readers and to Hachette Book Group USA and promise to count to ninety-one before hitting Publish Post in the future.

For the record, Hachette Filipacchi Media publishes such magazines as Car and Driver, Elle, Woman’s Day, American Photo, Boating, and Flying. The company does have a book line, but it is devoted more to lifestyle topics like cooking and entertaining, collectibles and home decorating, rather than trade fiction and nonfiction a la Little, Brown and Grand Central. The CEO of Hachette Filipacchi is Alain Lemarchand. The Chairman and CEO of Hachette Book Group USA is David Young.

RC

I’d double-check this — I’ve been told by the MD of Hachette Australia that this doesn’t apply to the book publishing divisions of Hachette and that ‘The memo is attributed to the President and CEO of Hachette Filipacchi, who has no jurisdiction over Grand Central, or Little,Brown. Filipacci is a completely separate division within Hachette, solely devoted to magazine publishing, and I think your blogger is just plain wrong in assuming the inclusion of the Hachette book business, which is widely known to be thriving in the US, not least because of Stephenie Meyer.’