- Thomson (Canada): $7.2 billion
- Pearson (UK): $7 billion
- Bertelsmann (Germany): $6.4 billion
- Reed Elsevier (UK/Netherlands): $6.1 billion
- Wolters Kluwer (Netherlands): $4.9 billion
- Hachette Livre (France): $3.1 billion
- McGraw-Hill Education (U.S.): $2.7 billion
- Reader's Digest (U.S.): $2.6 billion
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (U.S./Cayman Islands): $2.5 billion
- De Agostini Editore (Italy): revenues not available
Again, Americans might be surprised to see how far down the list you have to go before you hit a U.S. company. But most of the world's top companies own high-profile divisions and imprints in America.
And speaking of America, here's how our top publishers stack up:
- McGraw-Hill: $2.7 billion
- Reader's Digest: $2.7 billion
- Scholastic: $2.1 billion
- HarperCollins: $1.3 billion
- John Wiley: $1.2 billion
- Simon & Schuster: $886 million
- Marvel: $398 million
Even the smallest of these is mind-bogglingly huge compared to where I work!
2 comments:
then why does everyone want to publish his books with Penguin, etc?
What do you advice me? I am a foreigner interested in America :)
Penguin Group is owned by Pearson (UK), number 2 on the list.
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