This is a list of largest UK trade book publishers, with some of their principal imprints, ranked by sales value, according to Nielsen BookScan:[1]
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2008
- Hachette Livre (UK) £282.5m (15.9%)
- Headline; Hodder & Stoughton, Sceptre; 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
- Random House (UK) £262.7m (14.8%)
- Century, Hutchinson, William Heinemann, Arrow; Chatto & Windus, Jonathan Cape, Harvill Press, Secker & Warburg, Vintage, Pimlico, Bodley Head; Transworld, Doubleday, Bantam Press, Black Swan, Bantam, Corgi; Ebury Press, BBC Books; Virgin Books, Black Lace, Nexus, Cheek; Andersen Press
- Penguin Books £177.2m (10.0%)
- Penguin, Hamish Hamilton, Allen Lane, Michael Joseph, Viking, Rough Guides, Dorling Kindersley, Puffin, Ladybird, Warne
- HarperCollins £147.5m (8.3%)
- HarperCollins, 4th Estate, Avon, Voyager, Collins
- Pan Macmillan £57.9m (3.3%)
- Pan Books, Picador, Macmillan New Writing, Macmillan, Boxtree, Sidgwick and Jackson, Tor (UK), Kingfisher
- Bloomsbury £43.3m (2.4%)
- Pearson Education £42.2m (2.4%)
- Oxford University Press £34.5m (1.9%)
- John Wiley & Sons (UK) £27m (1.5%)
- Egmont £27m (1.5%)
- Faber Independent Alliance £47.5m (2.4%)
- Faber & Faber, Atlantic Books, Canongate, Granta Books, Icon Books, Portobello Books, Profile Books (including Serpent's Tail), Quercus Publishing, Short Books. A number of financially independent smaller publishers have formed an alliance to share promotion and administration, led by Faber:[2][3]
Historical comparisons
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# Company Sales 2008[1] Sales 2007[4][5] Sales 2006[6] Sales 2005[6] 1 ▬ Hachette Livre (UK) £282.5m (15.9%) £299.8m (16.6%) £277.3m (16.4%) £206.1m (12.5%) 2 ▬ Random House (UK) £262.7m (14.8%) £263.4m (14.6%) £261.0m (15.4%) £229.9m (14.0%) 3 ▬ Penguin Books £177.2m (10.0%) £177.3m (9.8%) £180.6m (10.7%) £174.9m (10.6%) 4 ▬ HarperCollins £147.5m (8.3%) £142.7m (7.9%) £141.6m (8.4%) £134.8m (8.2%) 5 ▲ Pan Macmillan £57.9m (3.3%) £61.4m (3.4%) £53.2m (3.1%) £54.8m (3.3%) 6 ▼ Bloomsbury £43.3m (2.4%) £74.7m (4.2%) £31.1m (1.8%) £62.3m (3.8%) 7 ▲ Pearson Education £42.2m (2.4%) £32.3m (1.8%) £34.0m (2.0%) £32.6m (2.0%) 8 ▼ Oxford University Press £34.5m (1.9%) £33.1m (1.8%) £33.1m (2.0%) £30.9m (1.9%) 9 ▲ John Wiley & Sons £27m (1.5%) 10 ▬ Egmont £27m (1.5%) £24.9m (1.4%) £22.9m (1.4%) ▼ Simon & Schuster £24.9m (1.4%) £26.9m (1.5%) £23.9m (1.4%) £24.3m (1.5%) ▼ Elsevier £23.0m (1.4%) £21.4m (1.3%) Faber Alliance £47.5m (2.7%) £39.1m (2.2%) £41.4m (2.4%)
References
- ^ a b Weathering the Storm, The Bookseller, 22 January 2009.
- ^ Edward Russell-Walling, Where 'Every Book Counts', Publishers Weekly, 17 March 2008
- ^ Independent Alliance, Faber & Faber
- ^ Alison Flood, Liz Bury, Joel Rickett and Philip Stone, Hachette steals the show, The Bookseller, 24 January 2008
- ^ Edward Russell-Walling, The Sunny Side of the High Street, Publishers Weekly, 24 March 2008
- ^ a b The Bookseller, 2nd February 2007; quoted here
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