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, according to Nielsen BookScan:^[1]

List

1. 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
2. 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
3. HarperCollins £132.3m (7.6%)
   • HarperCollins, 4th Estate, Avon, Voyager, Collins, HarperPress, Blue Door
4. Pan Macmillan £57.3m (3.3%)
   • Pan Books, Picador, Macmillan New Writing, Macmillan, Boxtree, Sidgwick and Jackson, Tor (UK), Kingfisher
5. Pearson Education £40.7m (2.3%)
6. Oxford University Press £37.6m (2.1%)
7. Bloomsbury £35.6m (2.0%)
   • Bloomsbury, A&C Black
8. Simon & Schuster £27.2m (1.6%)
9. John Wiley & Sons (UK) £26.7m (1.5%)

• Faber Independent Alliance £57.4m (3.3%)
  • Faber & Faber, Atlantic Books, Canongate, Granta Books, Icon Books, Portobello Books, Profile Books (including Serpent's Tail), Short Books. A number of financially independent smaller publishers that have formed an alliance to share promotion and administration, led by Faber.^[2]

Historical comparisons

#	Company	Sales 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	(29%)
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%)

Notes and references

1. Tom Tivnan and Philip Stone, Review of 2009 - Tough at the top, The Bookseller, 21 January 2010
2. Independent Alliance, Faber & Faber
   • Andrew Franklin, Declaration of independents, The Guardian, 8 July 2006
   • Edward Russell-Walling, Where 'Every Book Counts', Publishers Weekly, 17 March 2008
   • Tom Tivnan, United they stand, The Bookseller, 1 July 2010
3. UK Publishing Groups - Consumer Sales 2005-2010, The Booksellers Association
4. Tom Tivnan, , The Bookseller, 24 January 2011
5. Weathering the Storm, The Bookseller, 22 January 2009.
6. Alison Flood, Liz Bury, Joel Rickett and Philip Stone, Hachette steals the show, The Bookseller, 24 January 2008
7. Edward Russell-Walling, The Sunny Side of the High Street, Publishers Weekly, 24 March 2008
8. The Bookseller, 2nd February 2007; quoted here Archived January 27, 2011 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• 2009 figures and analysis, The Bookseller
• Tom Tivnan, Half-year review 2011: publisher performance, The Bookseller, 8 July 2011