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Book Publishers

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Industry Description

The US book publishing industry consists of about 2,700 companies with combined annual revenue of about $25 billion. Major companies include John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, and Scholastic, as well as publishing units of large media companies such as HarperCollins (owned by News Corp); Random House (owned by Bertelsmann); and Simon & Schuster (owned by CBS). The industry is highly concentrated: the top 50 companies generate about 80 percent of revenue.

SIC: 2731
NAICS: 511130
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Top 5 Companies

CompanySalesLocation
Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH2,988.59MStuttgart, Germany
MACMILLAN DISTRIBUTION SERVICES PROPRIETARY LIMITED2,627.13MDerrimut, Vic
Random House, Inc.2,469.40MNew York, NY
Scholastic Corporation1,906.10MNew York, NY
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.1,742.55MHoboken, NJ
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Industry Indicator

The spot price of crude oil, which indicates energy and ink prices paid by book publishing operations, rose 14.4 percent in the week ending January 6, 2012, compared to the same week in 2011.
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Quarterly Industry Update

More Publishers Abandon Print Catalogs - Random House plans to drop its print catalog, joining the growing group of publishers using digital catalogs exclusively. While publishers have been transitioning toward digital...
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