List of largest UK book publishers

This is a list of largest UK trade book publishers, with some of their principal imprints, ranked by sales value, according to Nielsen BookScan.

   

Year to end of 2009

1. Hachette Livre (UK) £287.9m (16.4%)
   • Headline; Hodder & Stoughton, Sceptre; 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
2. Random House (UK) £239.4m (13.7%)
   • Century, Hutchinson, William Heinemann, Arrow; Chatto & Windus, Jonathan Cape, Harvill Press, Secker & Warburg, Vintage, Pimlico, Bodley Head; Transworld, Doubleday, Bantam Press, Black Swan, Bantam, Corgi; Ebury Press, BBC Books; Virgin Books, Black Lace, Nexus, Cheek; Andersen Press
3. Penguin Books £170.5m (9.7%)
   • Penguin, Hamish Hamilton, Allen Lane, Michael Joseph, Viking, Rough Guides, Dorling Kindersley, Puffin, Ladybird, Warne
4. HarperCollins £132.3m (7.6%)
   • HarperCollins, 4th Estate, Avon, Voyager, Collins, HarperPress, Blue Door
5. Pan Macmillan £57.3m (3.3%)
   • Pan Books, Picador, Macmillan New Writing, Macmillan, Boxtree, Sidgwick and Jackson, Tor (UK), Kingfisher
6. Pearson Education £40.7m (2.3%)
7. Oxford University Press £37.6m (2.1%)
8. Bloomsbury £35.6m (2.0%)
   • Bloomsbury, A&C Black
9. Simon & Schuster £27.2m (1.6%)
10. 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), Quercus Publishing, Short Books. A number of financially independent smaller publishers that have formed an alliance to share promotion and administration, led by Faber.
  
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