Hachette Livre plays a crucial role in education, culture and democracy by ensuring access to its content for all.
The Group includes quite a few educational publishers, such as Hachette Éducation, Alexandre Hatier, Dunod - Armand Colin and Le Livre Scolaire in France.
At Hachette UK, Hodder Education is a leading publisher of textbooks and digital teaching resources.
In Spain, Anaya Educación has been a benchmark since 1959.
The Fondation Hachette pour la lecture, which operates under the aegis of the Fondation de France, was founded in 2022. It aims to support and fund non-profit organizations which promote reading, writing, and the French language more generally, to all audiences—with a special focus on young people as well as those who are not engaged in or are unable to read due to a disability, hospitalization, loss of autonomy or difficult living conditions. In so doing, it hopes to help combat illiteracy and reduce school dropout rates.
The Group’s publishers bring a wide range of voices to the fore. Environmentalism, feminism, inclusion and diversity are just a few of the themes showcased by Hachette Livre publishers.
In 2018, as digital technologies accelerate in education, the Hachette Livre Group created an e-Education department for all of its education imprints: Hachette Éducation, Hatier-Foucher, Didier and Dunod-Armand Colin. It brings together a multitude of programmes and partnerships already active within the Group such as Educadhoc, the Kiosque Numérique Éducatif for textbooks, an AI partnership with Knewton, and e-learning partnerships like KWYK. KWYK is an interactive learning drill website for maths, physics, chemistry and French. It allows teachers to create personalized revision programmes for their students and to track each one’s progress and weak points via a customized dashboard.
Since 2017 Hachette Livre has also partnered with Educapital, which became the first European Article 9 impact fund focused on Edtech in 2021. Through the fund, the Group supports the development of innovative players which promote the most accessible, inclusive and effective education possible.
In 2020 Hachette Livre acquired Lelivrescolaire.fr, which designs collaborative textbooks in both print and free digital formats.
Hachette Livre encourages its employees to get involved with causes they believe in and to support the company’s philanthropic initiatives. Volunteering promotes team building and best practices while accomplishing meaningful missions for non-profit organizations.
Novels and essays are available in the "native accessibility" ePub3 format, which can be processed by Braille keyboards or text-to-speech programmes. The imprints submit their books to the BnF's Platon platform, through which certified organizations create different accessible formats. Working with Mobidys, several of our children's and YA publishers convert their titles into Frog and Daisy formats and make them more readily accessible to readers with dyslexia or learning disabilities via digital and audiobook editions.
Hachette Livre signed the Accessible Books Consortium’s Accessible Publishing Charter, which includes eight principles for creating digital publications accessible to people with print disabilities.
In 2023, 99% of new text books published by the Group were accessible at level 1. This level corresponds to production in accessible ePub 3 format.
84% of this content was accessible at level 2. This level of accessibility, designed in-house by Hachette Livre, is given to content that passes the ACE (Accessibility Checker for ePubs) software check.
