Posted chart the world's largest publishers in the results 2013

on the first place in the list, as in 2012, was publisher Pearson,

Annual Revenue in 2013 was $9, 33 billion. Second place was taken by Reed Elsevier, the third - Thomson/Reuters, the fourth - Wolters Kluwer.

the vast number of branches of these publishers specializes in publication of educational,

scientific and specialized literature.

Among the publishing houses, producing books for General purposes, in the first place by the end of 2013 was Random House. Joint Revenue Random House and Penguin German publishing group Random House was $3, 66 billion. thus to data of Random House has added statistics Penguin only for the Second half, because the merger publishers have happened in the middle of 2013.

Statistics on the first six months was taken into account Pearson. The share of revenues publishers included in the 1st ten, of total revenue 50 largest publishers was 54% (in 2012 - 55%).

One of the most prominent publishing houses, are not included in the 1st ten, is a French Company Groupe Madrigail. Purchase by the company of a French publisher Flammarion raised it in the General chart with 47 31 position. Revenue Groupe Madrigail for 2012 was $574 million (as of 2013, as long as inaccessible in the past year were taken into account data 2011).

Another trend in the chart publishers Publishers Weekly calls deterioration Brazilian publishing houses. In 2012 in the list was attended by 3 organizations from Brazil, in 2013 were the two who took the lowest position in the chart. The reason - the devaluation of the Brazilian real, which has led to falling revenues publishers, expressed in dollars.

Notable players outside the top 10 are Chinese publishing houses. So, China Publishing Group Corp rose from 22 to 14th place with revenues of about $1, 5 billion. China Education and Media Group rose from 30 places at 21, showing revenue amounting to $1, fifteen billion.. Two More Chinese publishing houses were not included in the chart, because there had been impossible to separate their revenue from the sale of books of total revenues.

Significant jump in the top 56 did the Russian publishing house " Eksmo ", risen from the 55th position in the 45-th. Annual Revenues of " Eksmo " for 2013 was $343 million. The second Russian publishing house " OLMA Media Group ", also showed revenue growth and moved on 49-th position with the 52nd.

Here is the full list of top-56 publishers from Publishers Weekly and Livres Hebdo:





chart (2013)


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