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Key dates

• 25 February 2010
  John Grisham signs for two novels for young people with Hodder & Stoughton (Hachette UK).
  
  

• 16 April 2010
  Thousands of American, English and French works by Hachette Livre available on the Apple iBookstore, the day that the iPad is launched.
  
  

• 17 May 2010
  Little, Brown and Virago, two Hachette UK publishers, receive awards from the Association of English booksellers.
  
  

• 5 June 2010
  The global release of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, by Stephenie Meyer, with an initial print run of 3,150,000.
  
  

• 17 June 2010
  MyBoox, the consumer Internet site dedicated to books produced by Hachette Livre, goes on line.
  
  

• 8 July 2010
  James Patterson, published by Little, Brown and Company in the United States, is the first author inthe world to sell more than a million e-books.
  
  

• 1 September 2010
  First Board of Directors meeting of the joint venture Hachette Livre - Phoenix Publishing & Media Group in Beijing and the official launch of the business.
  
  

• 17 November 2010
  Signing of a memorandum of understanding with Google for the scanning of French out-of-print works controlled by Hachette Livre.

Leading positions

• No.1 publisher in France
• No.1 publisher in the United Kingdom
• No.2 publisher in Spain
• No.5 publisher in the United States

Key figures for 2010

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Number of titles appearing in the Sunday Times best-seller list in the United Kingdom







Market share in France (in volume)








Number of copies of Life, by Keith Richards, sold in the United Kingdom in 2010 Hachette Livre's








Bilan Carbone^® assessments in France (tonnes CO₂ equivalent)