Isabelle Saporta, CEO of Fayard, was fired | EUROtoday
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Lhe CEO of Fayard Isabelle Saporta has been fired, Hachette Livres introduced. Isabelle Saporta had been faraway from her place at the start of March, she discovered Point. On March 8, she was given a letter inviting her to an interview previous to her dismissal.
His ouster is the manifestation of the takeover of Hachette, quantity three on the earth in publishing (Fayard, but in addition Hatier, Calmann-Lévy, Grasset, Larousse, Le Livre de Pocket, and many others.), by the Vivendi group, managed by the Bolloré group. It has been a couple of weeks since Isabelle Saporta noticed her energy inside the publishing home diminish in favor of Lise Boëll, previously Éric Zemmour's editor, at the moment accountable specifically for the books of Philippe de Villiers. Her detractors name Lise Boëll “the editor of the fascist sphere”.
Isabelle Saporta, former journalist at Europe 1, ended up shedding the hitherto unwavering help of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, administrator of the Lagardère group, owned for the reason that fall of 2023 by Vivendi, and near each Arnaud Lagardère than Vincent Bolloré.
READ ALSO The return to publishing of Arnaud Nourry, ex-boss of HachetteIf Isabelle Saporta boasts of getting raised Fayard's turnover to 34 million euros in 2023 (in comparison with round fifteen million in 2022), this good yr is basically because of the success of contracts signed by her predecessor Sophie de Closets , just like the Memoirs of Prince Harry (The Substitute) and the autobiography of singer Florent Pagny (Pagny by Florent).
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