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List of largest book publishers of the United Kingdom

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This is a list of largest UK trade book publishers, with some of their principal imprints, ranked by sales value.

List

According to Nielsen BookScan as of 2010 the largest book publishers of the United Kingdom were:

  1. Penguin Random House £409.9m (23.4%)
  2. Hachette Livre (UK) £287.9m (16.4%)
  3. HarperCollins £132.3m (7.6%)
    • HarperCollins, 4th Estate, Avon, Voyager, Collins, HarperPress, Blue Door, Harper North
  4. Pan Macmillan £57.3m (3.3%)
  5. Pearson Education £40.7m (2.3%)
  6. Oxford University Press £37.6m (2.1%)
  7. Bloomsbury £35.6m (2.0%)
  8. Simon & Schuster £27.2m (1.6%)
  9. John Wiley & Sons (UK) £26.7m (1.5%)

Historical comparisons

# Company Sales 2010 Sales 2009 Sales 2008 Sales 2007 Sales 2006 Sales 2005
1 Steady Hachette Livre (UK) £m (15.2%) £287.9m (16.4%) £282.5m (15.9%) £299.8m (16.6%) £277.3m (16.4%) £206.1m (12.5%)
2 Steady Random House (UK) £m (13.8%) £239.4m (13.7%) £262.7m (14.8%) £263.4m (14.6%) £261.0m (15.4%) £229.9m (14.0%)
3 Steady Penguin Books £195.3m (11.5%) £170.5m (9.7%) £177.2m (10.0%) £177.3m (9.8%) £180.6m (10.7%) £174.9m (10.6%)
4 Steady HarperCollins £120.9m (7.1%) £132.3m (7.6%) £147.5m (8.3%) £142.7m (7.9%) £141.6m (8.4%) £134.8m (8.2%)
5 Steady Pan Macmillan £60.9m (3.6%) £57.3m (3.3%) £57.9m (3.3%) £61.4m (3.4%) £53.2m (3.1%) £54.8m (3.3%)
6 Increase Pearson Education £40.7m (2.3%) £42.2m (2.4%) £32.3m (1.8%) £34.0m (2.0%) £32.6m (2.0%)
7 Increase Bloomsbury £m (2.1%) £35.6m (2.0%) £43.3m (2.4%) £74.7m (4.2%) £31.1m (1.8%) £62.3m (3.8%)
8 Decrease Oxford University Press £m (2.0%) £37.6m (2.1%) £34.5m (1.9%) £33.1m (1.8%) £33.1m (2.0%) £30.9m (1.9%)
9 Increase Simon & Schuster £31.1m (1.8%) £27.2m (1.6%) £24.9m (1.4%) £26.9m (1.5%) £23.9m (1.4%) £24.3m (1.5%)
10 Decrease John Wiley & Sons £26.7m (1.5%) £27m (1.5%)
Decrease Egmont £24.9m (1.4%) £27m (1.5%) £24.9m (1.4%) £22.9m (1.4%)
  Elsevier £23.0m (1.4%) £21.4m (1.3%)
Faber Alliance £m (3.9%) £57.4m (3.3%) £47.5m (2.7%) £39.1m (2.2%) £41.4m (2.4%)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Tom Tivnan and Philip Stone, Review of 2009 - Tough at the top Archived 2010-01-28 at the Wayback Machine, The Bookseller, 21 January 2010
  2. ^ Independent Alliance Archived 2009-01-11 at the Wayback Machine, Faber & Faber
  3. ^ UK Publishing Groups - Consumer Sales 2005-2010 Archived 2011-11-20 at the Wayback Machine, The Booksellers Association
  4. ^ Tom Tivnan, , The Bookseller, 24 January 2011
  5. ^ Weathering the Storm Archived 2009-03-02 at the Wayback Machine, The Bookseller, 22 January 2009.
  6. ^ Alison Flood, Liz Bury, Joel Rickett and Philip Stone, Hachette steals the show Archived 2008-09-19 at the Wayback Machine, The Bookseller, 24 January 2008
  7. ^ Edward Russell-Walling, The Sunny Side of the High Street, Publishers Weekly, 24 March 2008
  8. ^ a b The Bookseller, 2 February 2007; quoted here Archived 27 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine

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