The group

Publishing begins with passing something on. Choosing a text, supporting it, getting it read: the job consists of putting knowledge, stories and experience into circulation, and connecting those who write with those who read.

The model and the technology serve two purposes: more authors published, better defended, books that find their readers, and innovations that move publishing and bookselling forward. The companies we support are not tools serving the list: their success is a goal in itself.

Before All Blue World there was French Bookstore. Gille Amont founded that network in the United States in 2014 and grew it to one hundred and twenty-seven French-language bookshops, before selling it.

A language lives as much from being written as from being read. French is written in Dakar, Montreal, Beirut, Port-au-Prince, Brussels and Algiers, and each of those cities adds a vocabulary, a syntax, turns of phrase that belong to it alone. It is read on the shelves where a bookseller knows which title to hand to whom, and in the families who keep it far from the country where they learned it.

The group, a project begun in 2016 and a company created in 2021, widened that perimeter. The lists opened to English, the activities run from publishing to distribution, media and exploitation rights. French keeps a place there that we claim, with francophone writers from all over the world.

The group grew out of one observation: the means that let a book exist fully, production, bookshops, media, rights, are scattered across players who never talk to each other. We brought them under one roof and put them at the service of every title.

Every project starts as a startup, with its own team, targets and business model, then joins the group network to gain immediate access to a catalogue, bookshops and distribution channels. That is how an idea becomes a book, a series, a store or an animated show without starting from scratch at every stage.

Innovation runs through all four divisions, technological as much as conceptual: in-house management tools, connected bookshops, augmented reality, new reading and subscription formats, editorial forms that did not exist before us. One conviction guides us: never underestimate the power of books.