This is a list of largest UK trade book publishers, with some of their principal imprints, ranked by sales value.
According to Nielsen BookScan as of 2010 the largest book publishers of the United Kingdom were:[1]
| # | Company | Sales 2010[3][4] | Sales 2009[1] | Sales 2008[5] | Sales 2007[6][7] | Sales 2006[8] | Sales 2005[8] | ||||||
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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%) | ||||||||
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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%) |
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