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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. * Penguin: Penguin, Hamish Hamilton, Allen Lane, Michael Joseph, Viking, Rough Guides, Dorling Kindersley, Puffin, Ladybird, Warne
  3. * Random House: Random House, Century, Hutchinson Heinemann, Arrow; Chatto & Windus, Jonathan Cape, Harvill Secker, Vintage, Pimlico, Bodley Head; Transworld, Doubleday, Bantam Press, Black Swan, Bantam, Corgi; Ebury Press, BBC Books; Virgin Books, Black Lace, Nexus, Cheek; Andersen Press
  4. Hachette Livre (UK) £287.9m (16.4%)
  5. * Headline; Hodder & Stoughton, Sceptre, Quercus; Little, Brown, Abacus, Sphere, Piatkus, Orbit, Virago; Orion, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Gollancz, Phoenix, Everyman; John Murray; Octopus, Cassell, Hamlyn, Mitchell Beazley, Philips; Orion Children's Books, Hodder Children’s Books, Orchard Books, Franklin Watts, Wayland, Hodder Education, Chambers Harrap
  6. HarperCollins £132.3m (7.6%)
  7. * HarperCollins, 4th Estate, Avon, Voyager, Collins, HarperPress, Blue Door, Harper North
  8. Pan Macmillan £57.3m (3.3%)
  9. * Pan Books, Picador, Macmillan New Writing, Macmillan, Boxtree, Sidgwick and Jackson, Tor (UK), Kingfisher
  10. Pearson Education £40.7m (2.3%)
  11. Oxford University Press £37.6m (2.1%)
  12. Bloomsbury £35.6m (2.0%)
  13. * Bloomsbury, A&C Black
  14. Simon & Schuster £27.2m (1.6%)
  15. John Wiley & Sons (UK) £26.7m (1.5%)

[http://www.faber.co.uk/about/independent-alliance Independent Alliance] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111222826/http://www.faber.co.uk/about/independent-alliance |date=2009-01-11 }}, Faber & Faber

  • Andrew Franklin, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jul/08/featuresreviews.guardianreview7 Declaration of independents], The Guardian, 8 July 2006
  • Edward Russell-Walling, [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6541633.html Where 'Every Book Counts'], Publishers Weekly, 17 March 2008
  • Tom Tivnan, [http://www.thebookseller.com/feature/united-they-stand.html United they stand], The Bookseller, 1 July 2010

Historical comparisons

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! Sales 2010[http://www.booksellers.org.uk/Industry-Info/Industry-Reports/Book-Industry-Statistics/UK-Publishing-Groups---Consumer-Sales-2005-2008.aspx UK Publishing Groups - Consumer Sales 2005-2010] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120233310/http://www.booksellers.org.uk/Industry-Info/Industry-Reports/Book-Industry-Statistics/UK-Publishing-Groups---Consumer-Sales-2005-2008.aspx |date=2011-11-20 }}, The Booksellers AssociationTom Tivnan, [http://www.thebookseller.com/news/quercus-breaks-records-2010-results.html], The Bookseller, 24 January 2011

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! Sales 2009Tom Tivnan and Philip Stone, [http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/110337-review-of-2009---tough-at-the-top.html Review of 2009 - Tough at the top] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100128233411/http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/110337-review-of-2009---tough-at-the-top.html |date=2010-01-28 }}, The Bookseller, 21 January 2010

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! Sales 2008[http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/75539-weathering-the-storm-publisher-performance-.html Weathering the Storm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302233755/http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/75539-weathering-the-storm-publisher-performance-.html |date=2009-03-02 }}, The Bookseller, 22 January 2009.

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! Sales 2007Alison Flood, Liz Bury, Joel Rickett and Philip Stone, [http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/51984-hachette-steals-the-show.html Hachette steals the show] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919001343/http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/51984-hachette-steals-the-show.html |date=2008-09-19 }}, The Bookseller, 24 January 2008Edward Russell-Walling, [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6541632.html The Sunny Side of the High Street], Publishers Weekly, 24 March 2008

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! Sales 2006The Bookseller, 2 February 2007; quoted [http://www.btinternet.com/~akme/bkslr6.html here] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127112345/http://www.btinternet.com/~akme/bkslr6.html |date=27 January 2011 }}

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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%)
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Faber Alliance£m(3.9%)£57.4m(3.3%)£47.5m(2.7%)£39.1m(2.2%)£41.4m(2.4%)

See also

References

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100128233411/http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/110337-review-of-2009---tough-at-the-top.html 2009 figures and analysis], The Bookseller
  • Tom Tivnan, [https://www.thebookseller.com/features/half-year-review-2011-publisher-performance Half-year review 2011: publisher performance], The Bookseller, 8 July 2011

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