At the Halfway Point of 2026 Hachette Reports Solid Earnings Despite 'Challenging' Market Conditions - Publishing Perspectives

Authors' agents should have read the contracts.

Panzer found this post on the Publishing Perspectives site. The post is about Hachette's earnings in the first half of 2026.

 

The post includes a section about "An 'Anthropic' Windfall."

 

Panzer says, "Hmm ... Looks like they'll make a lot of money off the authors' work." 

 

Note: This is a very long post with several links to other information, so you'll need to decide what to bring to snack on.

 

To read the post tootle over to Hachette