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| Parent company | Hachette (Lagardère Publishing) |
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| Founded | 1974 |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London |
| Distribution | United Kingdom, United States, Australia, South Africa, France |
| Fiction genres | Science fiction,fantasy |
| Imprints | Redhook |
| Official website | orbitbooks |
Orbit Books is an internationalpublisher that specialises inscience fiction andfantasy books. It is a division of Lagardère Publishing.
Orbit Books was founded in 1974 as part of theMacdonald Futura publishing company. In 1992, its parent company was bought by Little, Brown & Co., at that stage part of theTime Warner Book Group. In 1997, Orbit acquired the Legend imprint fromRandom House.[1]
In 2006, Orbit's parent companyLittle, Brown was sold by Time Warner to the French publishing groupHachette Livre.
By summer 2006, Orbit began to expand internationally, with the establishment of Orbit imprints in the United States and Australia. Orbit Publishing Director Tim Holman relocated to New York to establish Orbit US as an imprint ofHachette Book Group USA. In June 2007, Orbit appointed Bernadette Foley as publisher for Orbit Australia, an imprint of Hachette Livre Australia. In 2009 Orbit expanded to France, used by the publisherCalman Levy.