Hachette UK, India, Australia & New Zealand and Yen Press announce new global sales and distribution partnership

14th November 2024, London: Hachette UK, India, Australia and New Zealand are pleased to announce Yen Press will be joining Hachette for sales and distribution services. In the UK, Hachette’s services for Yen Press will be live on 16^th December 2024, in India on 3^rd February 2025 and in Australia and New Zealand on 1^st April 2025.

Yen Press is the latest publisher to be joining Hachette UK as part of their third-party publisher expansion plans. They follow in the footsteps of Profile Books who joined in 2021, Elsevier in 2022, Flame Tree Publishing and British Library Publishing in 2023, Pinnacle Books and Lonely Planet earlier this year, with Hay House and Bloomsbury Publishers coming in early 2025.

Hachette UK Distribution is home to the most advanced warehousing technology in UK publishing and has been a market leader in service levels since 2020, and they have a strongly established sales team who represent Hachette UK and client publishers.

Russell Evans, Business Development Director, Hachette UK Distribution, said: “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.”

Kurt Hassler, Publisher and Managing Director of Yen Press, said: “Yen Press began as an imprint under Hachette Book Group US and has benefitted significantly from their exceptional sales and distribution services since transitioning to a client services relationship. We are thrilled to be expanding this partnership working with Hachette UK, India, and Australia and New Zealand and look forward to increasing the availability of manga, light novels, and manhwa at a global level together.”