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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
Sales 2009
Sales 2008
Sales 2007
Sales 2006
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
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
References
^ 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
^ UK Publishing Groups - Consumer Sales 2005-2010 Archived 2011-11-20 at the Wayback Machine , The Booksellers Association
^ Tom Tivnan, , 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
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