Mass market publisher Paperback Library was renamed the Warner Paperback Library when taken over by Warner Publishing in 1972. In 1974 Warner Paperback Library became Warner Books. In 1978 Warner Brooks started printed trade books and in 1980 hardcover books. In 2006
Hachette Book Group USA (HBG) was created when Hachette Livre, a French publishing company, acquired Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner in 2006 ... Hachette Livre is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lagardère, a company that is active on a worldwide basis in the areas of communications and media (books, press, audiovisual and distribution/retailing of cultural products). (http://www.twbookmark.com/aboutus.html#cs).
Current imprints also include Little, Brown and Company; Center Street; Warner Faith; Hachette Audio and a ditigal media division
