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A publishing house is a company or an association whose original core business is the production and distribution of books or laid out documents. Today, the publishing business generally includes editing documents with all media as the heart of the book business at large industry (notebooks connected, catalogs, booklets, albums, files, etc.).
A publishing group includes several publishing houses or subsidiaries. The nationality of a group depends on that of the owner and/or principal office.
In the table below, the turnover is expressed in millions of euro. This figure includes only the book branches and departments and affiliates, such as generally expressed a detailed assessment, published by the auditors and made available to the public. Some companies are little or poorly communicating their structural data.
From a geographical and financial point of view, this table shows that Europe clearly dominates the market for books and publishing in general, with a cumulative total volume of more than 28 billion (2009).
| Publisher | Owner | Country | Turnover, in millions Euro (2011) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pearson Plc | Actionnariat flottant | United Kingdom | 6 470 |
| Reed Elsevier | Actionnariat flottant | United Kingdom, Netherlands | 4 395 |
| Thomson Reuters | The Woodbridge Company Ltd. | Canada | 4 181 |
| Wolters Kluwer | Actionnariat flottant | Netherlands | 3 354 |
| Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Consortium de banques4 | United States | 996 |
| Random House | Bertelsmann AG | Germany | 1 749 |
| Hachette Livre | Groupe Lagardère | France | 2 038 |
| Grupo Planeta | Actionnariat flottant | Spain | 1 772 |
| McGraw-Hill Education | Actionnariat flottant dont CGC | United States | 1 763 |
| Arnoldo Mondadori Editore | Gruppo Fininvest | Italy | 1 416 |
| John Wiley & Sons | Actionnariat flottant | United States | 1 341 |
| De Agostini Editore S.p.A.5 | B&D Holding/De Agostini Group | Italy | 1 330 |
| Holtzbrinck | Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck | Germany | 1 501 |
| HarperCollins | News Corporation | United States– Australia | 846 |
| Simon & Schuster | CBS Corporation | United States | 605 |
| RCS Libri | RCS MediaGroup | Italy | 513 |
| Cengage Learning | Apax Partners, OMERS | United States | 1 443 |
| Scholastic Corp. | Scholastic | United States | 1 466 |
| Shueisha | Shueisha | Japan | 1 320 |
| Shogakukan | Shogakukan | Japan | 1 112 |
| Kodansha | Dai-Nippon Yūbenkai | Japan | 1 194 |
| Kadokawa Shoten | Kadokawa Holdings Inc. | Japan | 696 |
| Springer Science+Business Media | EQT Partners – GIC | Sweden – Singapore | 931 |
| Taylor and Francis | Informa plc6 | United Kingdom, Switzerland | 826 |
| Bonnier | The Bonnier Group | Sweden | 703 |
| Oxford University Press | Oxford University | United Kingdom | 773 |
| Grupo Santillana | Prisa | Spain | 720 |
| Gakken | Gakken Holdings Co. Ltd. | Japan | 803 |
| Egmont Books & Kids Media | Egmont International Holding A/S | Denmark | 541 |
| Reader’s Digest | RDA Holding Co | United States | 1 106 |
| Klett Verlag | Klett Gruppe | Germany | 457 |
| Cornelsen Verlag | Cornelsen | Germany | 429 |
NB : China Education and Media Group (China) entered in the ranking in 2012.
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