Even in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, you have to be wary of sleeping water. In recent weeks, publishers have not only prepared the next literary season or wait for the end of the interminable series of redemption of Hachette (leader in the sector in France) by Vivendi, which had to offload by Editis (number two in the tricolor market) for competitive reasons ; an embly which has just received the blank check, subject to conditions, from Brussels .
“All my publishers have been contacted recently but without success,” confides the boss of a well-known general literature house in the area. He is far from alone in this situation. If the production of the French edition will not necessarily move because it is dictated by demand, a game of musical chairs is preparing that some do not hesitate to qualify as potentially without equivalent in the history of the tricolor sector.