Hachette UK sells off a portion of its education business, realigns the rest

Publishers Lunch Deluxe reports that Hachette UK has sold its health sciences and higher education lines to Taylor & Francis, because, according to CEO Tim Hely Hutchinson, "they were sub-scale and could not compete with the major, much larger, publishers in the area." Hachette's consumer education line is being moved into its Hodder & Stoughton imprint.