Four divisions, eight companies

Our
activities

Publishing, distribution and bookshops, media and digital, exploitation rights. Each division carries its own companies, and all share the same catalogue, the same tools and the same distribution channels.

01 · The four divisions 02 · The companies of the group

Activities

Edit · Connect · Extend · Transform

Edit

Publishing

Four houses and two catalogues, one French-language, one international. We support our authors from the first manuscript through to translation, with particular care given to illustration and children’s books.

All Blue Page · La Page Bleue Paris · London

ListsArt directionIllustrationTranslationProduction

Connect

Distribution

The group is working on opening its bookshop network in the United States and in France, with its own stores and corners hosted by partners. Our shops are connected, and innovation there keeps taking new forms: customer recognition, interactive windows, click and collect, in-store orders delivered at home, among other things we test continuously. We also work with independent booksellers, retail chains and press networks.

All Blue Store · Blue Korner

Own bookshopsCornersConnected storesPress and retail networksEvents and signings

Extend

Media and digital

E-commerce platform, subscription boxes, our own media outlet and podcast, augmented reality. Our digital products extend reading and open new points of contact with readers.

All Blue Digital · All Blue Box · Blue News

E-commerceSubscriptionsPodcastAugmented realityApps

Transform

Exploitation rights

Group licences brought to the screen and licensed internationally: animated series and films, adaptations, translations. A single story then lives across several formats and several markets.

Legendary · ZeCulture · with Pakt Prod

AnimationAudiovisualLicensingForeign rightsAdaptations

Our companies

NEW YORK · HOLDING All Blue World Holding company of the group. Financial management, administration, strategy and coordination of the four divisions.

NEW YORK · PUBLISHING All Blue Page International list: American and Asian authors. Administration of the group publishing subsidiaries. LONDON · PUBLISHING All Blue Page Non-French-language list and distribution of the group catalogues in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. PARIS · PUBLISHING La Page Bleue French-language list: French-speaking authors from around the world. Distribution of the group catalogues in French-speaking countries. NEW YORK · DISTRIBUTION All Blue Store Physical distribution networks. Own bookshops and corners, under the Blue Korner banner. PARIS · DISTRIBUTION All Blue Store Physical distribution network in Europe, stores and corners.

NEW YORK · MEDIA AND DIGITAL All Blue Digital Online distribution and development of the group innovative products: e-commerce platform, subscription boxes, augmented reality, media and podcast.

NEW YORK · BOOKSELLING French Bookstore French-language bookshop brand, founded in 2014. After the sale of the first network, the group, which owns the brand, is building a new one.

NEW YORK · CREATIVE KITS All Blue Creative Design and production of creative kits for children, gathered in the MyCreativeKits collection.

Group brands: Blue Korner, All Blue Box, All Blue Box Pocket, All Blue Box Junior, Blue News, MyCreativeKits. Legendary is shared with Solal Ultimate. Animation projects are produced with Pakt Prod.

Innovation in practice

Here is what actually equips our books, our stores and our teams.

The book

A text is captured once, then output to print, digital and audio. Our digital titles are produced as accessible EPUB, readable by screen readers and braille displays, watermarked rather than locked. Every book carries its estimated carbon footprint.

Structured publishing: one text in print, digital and audioAccessible EPUBDigital watermarkingONIX metadataCarbon footprint per titleDigital print on demand

Augmented reading

A scanned page triggers a video, a sound or a three-dimensional model, with no app to install. Depending on the title, holographic content, an audio version or interactive formats are added, designed with the author.

Augmented reality with no appHolographic contentAudio version and audiobookInteractive formatsQR codes and companion pages

The author

A personal space on Ozalid, where the author follows the book as it goes, from copy-editing to press proof, then sales and royalties. Contracts are signed electronically, royalty statements are annual and detailed.

Book tracking spaceSales and rights trackingElectronic signatureAnnual royalty statements

The bookshop

Our stores will open fully equipped: RFID identification, unified checkout across site and shelves, interactive windows, in-store ordering delivered at home, click and collect. Booksellers’ recommendations are tooled and shared across the network.

RFID on booksUnified checkoutInteractive windows and kiosksIn-store orders deliveredIn-store pickupTool-assisted recommendation

Data

Sales come back continuously, returns are tracked and routed to second-life channels. Print-run forecasting relies on that real data, which remains the best way to avoid pulping.

Continuous sales reportingReturns trackingSecond-life channelsPrint-run forecasting

Artificial intelligence

It assists, it does not decide. On manuscripts it prepares the readers’ work: sorting by collection, spotting duplicates, creating a first record card. Every text received is then read by a committee member, and no decision is taken without them. The same rule applies to copy-editing and translation, where the machine does the rough work and people decide.

Sorting and recording of manuscriptsCopy-editing assistanceTranslation assistanceSemantic searchAssistants for booksellers

Several of these tools are built with the Ctrl+Alt+Create platforms, in particular Quixx.ai for data and artificial intelligence.

The group platform

Ozalid

A book passes through a dozen pairs of hands before it reaches a shelf, and each one usually keeps its own spreadsheet. Ozalid gathers everyone around the same book: the publisher follows production, the author sees where the text stands, the printer receives its paper data, the bookseller knows its on-sale dates.

The platform covers the whole chain, from the idea to press proof, then sales, returns, rights and the climate contribution of the title. Each person sees only what concerns them, and nobody is asked twice for information already entered.

Author portalPrinter portal Bookseller portalCarbon footprint per title French, English, Arabic

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