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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.

List

According to Nielsen BookScan as of 2010, the largest book publishers of the United Kingdom were: <br />

  1. Penguin Random House £409.9m (23.4%)
  2. * Penguin: Penguin, Hamish Hamilton, Allen Lane, Michael Joseph, Viking, Rough Guides, Dorling Kindersley, Puffin, Ladybird, Warne
  3. * Random House: Random House, Century, Hutchinson 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
  4. Hachette Livre (UK) £287.9m (16.4%)
  5. * 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
  6. HarperCollins £132.3m (7.6%)
  7. * HarperCollins, 4th Estate, Avon, Voyager, Collins, HarperPress, Blue Door, Harper North
  8. Pan Macmillan £57.3m (3.3%)
  9. * Pan Books, Picador, Macmillan New Writing, Macmillan, Boxtree, Sidgwick and Jackson, Tor (UK), Kingfisher
  10. Pearson Education £40.7m (2.3%)
  11. Oxford University Press £37.6m (2.1%)
  12. Bloomsbury £35.6m (2.0%)
  13. * Bloomsbury, A&C Black
  14. Simon & Schuster £27.2m (1.6%)
  15. John Wiley & Sons (UK) £26.7m (1.5%)

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