List of largest book publishers of the United Kingdom explained
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:
- 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%)
- 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%)
Historical comparisons
| Company | Sales 2010[2] [3] | | Sales 2009[4] | | Sales 2008[5] | | Sales 2007[6] [7] | | Sales 2006[8] | | Sales 2005 | |
|---|
| 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 | | £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 | | £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 | | £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 | | £40.7m | (2.3%) | £42.2m | (2.4%) | £32.3m | (1.8%) | £34.0m | (2.0%) | £32.6m | (2.0%) | | |
| 7 | | £m | (2.1%) | £35.6m | (2.0%) | £43.3m | (2.4%) | £74.7m | (4.2%) | £31.1m | (1.8%) | £62.3m | (3.8%) |
| 8 | | £m | (2.0%) | £37.6m | (2.1%) | £34.5m | (1.9%) | £33.1m | (1.8%) | £33.1m | (2.0%) | £30.9m | (1.9%) |
| 9 | | £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 | | £26.7m | (1.5%) | £27m | (1.5%) | | | | | | | | |
| | £24.9m | (1.4%) | £27m | (1.5%) | £24.9m | (1.4%) | £22.9m | (1.4%) | | | | |
| | | | | | | £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
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.faber.co.uk/about/independent-alliance Independent Alliance
- http://www.booksellers.org.uk/Industry-Info/Industry-Reports/Book-Industry-Statistics/UK-Publishing-Groups---Consumer-Sales-2005-2008.aspx UK Publishing Groups - Consumer Sales 2005-2010
- Tom Tivnan, http://www.thebookseller.com/news/quercus-breaks-records-2010-results.html, The Bookseller, 24 January 2011
- Tom Tivnan and Philip Stone, Review of 2009 - Tough at the top, The Bookseller, 21 January 2010
- http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/75539-weathering-the-storm-publisher-performance-.html Weathering the Storm
- 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
- The Bookseller, 2 February 2007; quoted here
