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:^[1]

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 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, Harper North
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	(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

• Books in the United Kingdom
• Book trade in the United Kingdom