List of largest book publishers of the United Kingdom — BrandWiki
BrandWiki / List of largest book publishers of the United Kingdom 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 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 Historical comparisons ! # ! Company ! Sales 2010 [2] [3] ! ! Sales 2009 [4] ! ! Sales 2008 [5] ! ! Sales 2007 [6] [7] ! ! Sales 2006 [8] ! ! Sales 2005 [8]
See also Books in the United Kingdom Book trade in the United Kingdom , 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%)
14) Simon & Schuster £27.2m (1.6%)
15) 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. [1] !
{| class="wikitable sortable" - 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%) || || || || - class="sortbottom" || Faber Alliance || £m || (3.9%)|| £57.4m || (3.3%) || £47.5m || (2.7%) || £39.1m || (2.2%) || £41.4m || (2.4%) || || } 4.
8. The Bookseller, 2 February 2007; quoted here ^ 