List of largest book publishers of the United Kingdom
This is a list of largest UK trade book publishers, with some of their principal imprints, ranked by sales value.
List
[edit]According to Nielsen BookScan as of 2010 the largest book publishers of the United Kingdom were:[1]
- Penguin Random House £409.9m (23.4%)
- Penguin: Penguin, Hamish Hamilton, Allen Lane, Michael Joseph, Viking, Rough Guides, Dorling Kindersley, Puffin, Ladybird, Warne
- Random House: Random House, Century, Hutchinson, William 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
- Hachette Livre (UK) £287.9m (16.4%)
- 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
- HarperCollins £132.3m (7.6%)
- HarperCollins, 4th Estate, Avon, Voyager, Collins, HarperPress, Blue Door, Harper North
- Pan Macmillan £57.3m (3.3%)
- Pan Books, Picador, Macmillan New Writing, Macmillan, Boxtree, Sidgwick and Jackson, Tor (UK), Kingfisher
- Pearson Education £40.7m (2.3%)
- Oxford University Press £37.6m (2.1%)
- Bloomsbury £35.6m (2.0%)
- Simon & Schuster £27.2m (1.6%)
- John Wiley & Sons (UK) £26.7m (1.5%)
- Faber Independent Alliance £57.4m (3.3%)
- Faber & Faber, Atlantic Books, Canongate, Granta Books, Icon Books, Portobello Books, Profile Books (including Serpent's Tail), Short Books. A number of financially independent smaller publishers that have formed an alliance to share promotion and administration, led by Faber.[2]
Historical comparisons
[edit]# Company Sales 2010[3][4] Sales 2009[1] Sales 2008[5] Sales 2007[6][7] Sales 2006[8] Sales 2005[8] 1 
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 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 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 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 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 
Pearson Education £40.7m (2.3%) £42.2m (2.4%) £32.3m (1.8%) £34.0m (2.0%) £32.6m (2.0%) 7 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 
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 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 John Wiley & Sons £26.7m (1.5%) £27m (1.5%) 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: 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
- ^
Independent Alliance Archived 2009-01-11 at the Wayback Machine, Faber & Faber
- Andrew Franklin, Declaration of independents, The Guardian, 8 July 2006
- Edward Russell-Walling, Where 'Every Book Counts', Publishers Weekly, 17 March 2008
- Tom Tivnan, United they stand, The Bookseller, 1 July 2010
- ^ UK Publishing Groups - Consumer Sales 2005-2010 Archived 2011-11-20 at the Wayback Machine, The Booksellers Association
- ^ Tom Tivnan, [1], The Bookseller, 24 January 2011
- ^ Weathering the Storm Archived 2009-03-02 at the Wayback Machine, The Bookseller, 22 January 2009.
- ^ 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
- ^ Edward Russell-Walling, The Sunny Side of the High Street, Publishers Weekly, 24 March 2008
- ^ Jump up to: a b The Bookseller, 2 February 2007; quoted here Archived 27 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine
External links
[edit]- 2009 figures and analysis, The Bookseller
- Tom Tivnan, Half-year review 2011: publisher performance, The Bookseller, 8 July 2011
