global publisher ranking
A ranking of the world’s biggest book publishers, as measured by their annual sales, shows that Pearson has captured the top spot from ThomsonReuters
Pos 2008 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Pos 2007 2 4 1 5 3 6 7 13 10 11 9 12 15 21 14 16 18 20 19 17 8 23 51 25 24 26 27 31 28 30 34 32 33 29 35 36 37 39 45 42 43 40 38 41 New 49 48 50 52 46 Company name Pearson Reed Elsevier ThomsonReuters Wolters Kluwer Bertelsmann Hachette Livre McGraw–Hill Education Grupo Planeta De Agostini Editore Scholastic Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Holtzbrinck Cengage Learning Wiley Informa HarperCollins Shogakukan Shueisha Kodansha Springer Science and Business Media Readers Digest RCS Libri Egmont Oxford University Press Bonnier Simon & Schuster Grupo Santillana Gakken Mondadori Klett WSOY Pub and Educational Publishing Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol Cornelsen Kadokawa Publishing Harlequin Mills & Boon Media Participations Les Editions Lefebvre–Sarrut Marvel Higher Education Press Westermann Verlagsgruppe La Martinière Groupe Langenscheidt Groupe Gallimard Weka Perseus Bungei Shinchosha Haufe Gruppe MairDuMont Weltbild Parent company/group Pearson Reed Elsevier The Woodbridge Company Ltd Wolters Kluwer Bertelsmann Lagardere McGraw–Hill Grupo Planeta Gruppo De Agostini Scholastic Corp Education Media and Publishing Group Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck Apax Partners et al. John Wiley & Sons Informa News Corp Shogakukan Shueisha Kodansha Cinven and Candover Ripplewood Holdings RCS Media Group Egmont Group Oxford University The Bonnier Group CBS PRISA Gakken Co. Ltd. The Mondadori Group Klett Gruppe Sanoma WSOY Messagerie Italiane Cornelsen Kadokawa Holdings Inc. Torstar Media Participations Frojal Marvel Entertainment Inc. Higher Education Press Medien Union (Rheinland–Pflaz Gruppe) La Martinière Groupe Langenscheidt Madrigall Weka Firmengruppe Perseus Bungei Shinchosha Haufe Gruppe MairDuMont Verlagsgruppe Weltbild GmbH Parent Revenues Revenues Revenues Nationality 2008 (€m) 2007 (€m) 2006 (€m) UK 5,044 4,812 5,616 UK/NL/US 4,586 4,217 5,851 Canada 3,485 4,998 – NL 3,374 3,413 3,693 Germany 2,980 4,392 4,612 France 2,159 2,130 1,975 US 1,794 1,853 – Spain 1,760 1,000 1,015 Italy – – 1,668 US 1,499 1,493 – US/Cayman Islands 1,393 1,712 – Germany – – 1,324 UK 1,172 968 – US 1,139 846 – UK 1,028 997 978 US/AUS 944 923 – Japan 927 901 – Japan 902 852 – Japan 886 885 908 UK/Germany/Italy/France 880 906 924 US 756 1,843 – Italy 692 731 721 Denmark/Norway 644 176 200 UK 619 616 605 Sweden 616 668 592 US 583 607 – Spain 580 560 489 Japan 515 414 525 Italy 434 445 440 Germany 434 420 400 Finland 390 323 309 Italy 382 371 484 Germany 354 362 347 Japan 333 433 622 Canada 316 320 313 Belgium 310 302 293 France 309 296 263 US 284 273 – China (PR) 258 – 207 Germany 247 242 234 France 242 237 228 Germany 242 263 260 France 241 290 238 Germany 221 244 252 US 204 – – Japan 196 192 – Japan 189 192 – Germany 186 180 164 Germany 175 175 165 Germany 175 206 231
PUBLISHERS TOP 50
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*The Livres Hebdo Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry was compiled by consultant Rüdiger Wischenbart and co-published by The Bookseller, Buchreport (Germany), and Publishers Weekly (US). The ranking is based on publishers’ own reported revenues, and only based on “publishing” sales, including books, journals and professional information in commercially run databases. Research was completed by May 2009. Average 2008 exchange rates used: (€1 = 1.471; $ = 0.796 GBP = 152,5 Yen)
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