Created in 1979 through the merging of the Bibliographie de la France (1811) and the Bulletin du Livre (1958), under the umbrella of the trade organization Cercle de la librairie and it's private subsidiary Electre, Livres Hebdo (« Books Weekly ») is the French book trade weekly magazine and website (http://www.livreshebdo.fr/), dedicated to publishers, booksellers and librarians, with more than 8000 suscribers and about 50 000 readers.
Its website www.livreshebdo.fr, launched in 2006, has 250 000 unique visitors per month. It also pushes book trade information to readers through a daily newsletter (25 000 suscribers) and some weekly newsletters, as well as through social networks like Facebook (more than 110 000 fans), Twitter (nearly 35 000 followers), Instagram or Tumblr.
Livres Hebdo and livreshebdo.fr provide trade news, features articles, interviews, book reviews before publication, best-sellers’ lists, sales figures and other economic data like rankings (The 200 Main French Publishers, The 400 Main Bookshops…). These include the « Livres Hebdo World Ranking of the Publishing Industry », also published under licence by PublishersWeekly (USA), Buchreport (Germany), Bookdao (China), The Bookseller (UK) and PublishNews Brazil (Brazil), with which Livres Hebdo organizes the CEO panel at the Frankfurt Book Fair every year.
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