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]

  1. Penguin Random House £409.9m (23.4%)
  2. Hachette Livre (UK) £287.9m (16.4%)
  3. HarperCollins £132.3m (7.6%)
    • HarperCollins, 4th Estate, Avon, Voyager, Collins, HarperPress, Blue Door, Harper North
  4. Pan Macmillan £57.3m (3.3%)
  5. Pearson Education £40.7m (2.3%)
  6. Oxford University Press £37.6m (2.1%)
  7. Bloomsbury £35.6m (2.0%)
  8. Simon & Schuster £27.2m (1.6%)
  9. John Wiley & Sons (UK) £26.7m (1.5%)

Historical comparisons

#CompanySales 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

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