Holtzbrinck Publishing Group#Subsidiaries and imprints

The history of Georg von Holtzbrink's publishing activities during the Nazi years 1933-1945 has been controversial.{{Cite news|last=Landler|first=Mark|date=2002-10-14|title=Another German Publisher Mulls Its Wartime Past|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/14/business/another-german-publisher-mulls-its-wartime-past.html|access-date=2022-01-15|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news|last=O'Toole|first=Fintan|title=Empire of publishing built on barbarism|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/empire-of-publishing-built-on-barbarism-1.164668|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016142057/https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/empire-of-publishing-built-on-barbarism-1.164668|archive-date=2017-10-16|access-date=2022-01-15|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en|quote=The founder of the firm, Georg von Holtzbrinck, was until the early 1930s an impoverished student who sold books door to door. He joined a Nazi student group in 1931, two years before Hitler came to power. He became a member of the Nazi Party in 1933, and stayed loyal to it until the end of the war.}} After World War II, Georg von Holtzbrinck, a former member of the Nazi party,{{Cite web|title=Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck|url=https://www.mediadb.eu/datenbanken/deutsche-medienkonzerne/verlagsgruppe-georg-von-holtzbrinck.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028045240/http://www.mediadb.eu/datenbanken/deutsche-medienkonzerne/verlagsgruppe-georg-von-holtzbrinck.html|archive-date=2011-10-28|access-date=2022-01-15|website=mediadb.eu|quote=Denn Georg von Holtzbrinck sei „ein wichtiger Akteur“ in der Buchhandels- und Verlagsgeschichte im Dritten Reich gewesen. Er war Mitglied der NSDAP, aber nicht als fanatischer Nazi in Erscheinung getreten.}} reestablished a group in 1948, beginning as a German book club. In the 1960s, it purchased the German publishing companies Droemer, Kindler, Rowohlt and S. Fischer Verlag. In 1985, it acquired the retail book division of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, naming it the Henry Holt Book Company. One year later, the company acquired Scientific American magazine for $52.6 million. In 1994, it purchased a majority interest in Farrar, Straus & Giroux from retiring Roger W. Straus, Jr. A year later, it purchased a 70% majority interest in Macmillan Publishers, and then the remaining shares in 1999. In 2001, Pearson sold the Macmillan trademark in the United States (gained with the acquisition of Simon & Schuster educational and professional division, which included the assets of former Macmillan Inc.) to Holtzbrinck.Bookseller, [http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-miscellaneous/4655423-1.html Allbusiness.com]

In March 2006, Holtzbrinck forced Tor Books, which is owned by Holtzbrinck, to stop making its books available as e-books via Baen Ebooks because of concerns regarding the lack of digital rights management (DRM). The policy was later changed and Tor titles became available as DRM-free e-books in 2012. The Tor UK label in Britain (and hence the EU) does the same. The company also received a good deal of attention when it bought the then leading German social networking platform StudiVZ in January 2007.

Holtzbrinck has total annual sales of 2.1 billion euros (as of 2005); 49% of sales are in Germany and 23% in North America. It had 2005 earnings before taxes of 142 million euros, and a total of 14,000 employees.

The current chairman of the group is Stefan von Holtzbrinck. Don Weisberg is CEO of Macmillan, the company that unites the US-based businesses of the group. Previous CEOs of Macmillan include John Sargent.[http://www.publishingtrends.com/copy/06/0604/0604BookView.html Book View] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820023213/http://publishingtrends.com/copy/06/0604/0604BookView.html|date=20 August 2007}}, Publishing Trends, April 2006

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In Germany:

• S. Fischer Verlag
• FISCHER Krügerhttps://www.fischerverlage.de/verlage/fischer_krueger, 24 April 2020
• {{Interlanguage link multi|Argon Verlag|de}}
• FISCHER Scherzhttps://www.fischerverlage.de/verlage/fischer_scherz, 24 April 2020
• Rowohlt Verlag
• Kiepenheuer & Witsch (85%)
• Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur (50%)
• O.W. Barth
• {{lang|de|Die Zeit}} (50%)

In the United States:

Using the Macmillan name:

• Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Faber & Faber (formerly; ended partnership in 2015)
• Henry Holt and Company
• Holt Paperbacks
• Metropolitan Books
• Times Books
• Owl Books
• Palgrave Macmillan
• Picador
• Roaring Brook Press
• Neal Porter Books
• First Second Books
• St. Martin's Press
• Thomas Dunne Books
• Tom Doherty Associates
• Tor Books
• Forge Books
• Bedford, Freeman and Worth Publishing Group
• W.H. Freeman
• Bedford-St. Martin's
• Worth Publishers
• Macmillan Learning
• Hayden-McNeil
• Nature Publishing Group
• Scientific American

Former in the United States:

• Renaissance Media - was based in Los Angeles when its catalogue was acquired by Holtzbrinck in 2001{{cite magazine |first=Shannon |last=Maughan |title=Holtzbrinck Acquires Renaissance Media |magazine=Publishers Weekly |date=2001-10-01 |volume=248 |issue=40 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20011001/20591-holtzbrinck-acquires-renaissance-media.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308141715/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20011001/20591-holtzbrinck-acquires-renaissance-media.html |archive-date=2017-03-08 |url-status=dead}}
• Renaissance Books - assets and back catalogue fully merged into Holtzbrinck's St. Martin's Press, which formerly provided the book printing service for Rennaissance
• Audio Renaissance - renamed Macmillan Audio when Holtzbrinck switched to Macmillan name in the United States

In the United Kingdom:

• Macmillan Publishers
• Pan Macmillan
• Macmillan
• Pan Books
• Picador
• Macmillan Children's Books
• Campbell Books
• Priddy Books
• Boxtree
• Sidgwick & Jackson
• Macmillan Education
• Springer Nature (53%)
• Palgrave Macmillan
• Digital Science

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• The Big Five English-language book publishers: Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers, and Hachette
• Springer Nature
• Books in Germany
• Bertelsmann
• Elsevier
• Lagardère Publishing
• McGraw Hill Education
• Pearson plc
• News Corp
• Scholastic Corporation
• Thomson Reuters
• Wiley (publisher)

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• {{cite web |title= Holtzbrinck Timeline |url= http://www.ulib.niu.edu/publishers/index.htm |work= The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition |author= Mary H. Munroe |year= 2004 |via= Northern Illinois University |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141020151110/http://www.ulib.niu.edu/publishers/Pearson.htm |archive-date= 20 October 2014 |df= dmy-all }}

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