Éditions Robert Laffont

Éditions Robert Laffont is a book publishing company in France founded in 1941 by Robert Laffont. Its publications are distributed in almost all francophone countries, but mainly in France, Canada and in Belgium.

It is considered as one of the most important French publishing houses. Imprints belonging to Éditions Robert Laffont include éditions Julliard, les Seghers, Foreign Rights and Nil Éditions. Since 1990, Éditions Robert Laffont has been owned by the French publishing group Groupe de la Cité.

Éditions Robert Laffont published the Quid encyclopedia for many years, but announced that the 2008 edition of the encyclopedia would not be published after annual sales had fallen from a high of 400,000 to less than 100,000, apparently because of competition from online information sources such as Wikipedia. [cite news |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/frances-favourite-encyclopaedia-falls-victim-to-wikipedia-784420.html |publisher=The Independent |date=Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |title=France's favourite encyclopaedia falls victim to Wikipedia |last=Lichfield |first=John |location=Paris]

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References

* Sources: translation of French and Spanish Wikipedia

External links

* [http://www.laffont.fr/ Éditions Robert Laffont] Official site