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 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%) | ||||||||
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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]- ^ 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
- ^ 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
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