{"id":685,"date":"2008-07-21T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=685"},"modified":"2008-07-22T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T15:03:00","slug":"worlds-largest-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/publishing\/worlds-largest-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s largest publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I wrote about <a title=\"plight of independent publishing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/20\/the-plight-of-independent-book-publishing-part-1\/\" target=\"_self\">consolidation in publishing and the challenges facing independent book publishers<\/a>. One result of this consolidation has been the transfer of ownership from the U.S. to other countries. In its July 14 issue, <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em> lists the world&#8217;s fifty largest publishers, based on dollar sales in fiscal or calendar 2007. How many of these fifty publishers are headquartered in the U.S.?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>___ 7<br \/>\n___ 17<br \/>\n___ 27<br \/>\n___ 37<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Answer after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>X__ 7<br \/>\n___ 17<br \/>\n___ 27<br \/>\n___ 37<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>PW<\/em> shows seven US publishers in the top fifty worldwide. Laregest is McGraw-Hill, followed by Reader&#8217;s Digest, Scholastic, HarperCollins, John Wiley, Simon &amp; Schuster, and Marvel.<\/p>\n<p>(According to <em>PW, <\/em>the listing was compiled by international publishing consultant Rudiger Wischenbart. Data was unavailable for the publishers Pannini and Disney\/Hyperion.)<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I wrote about consolidation in publishing and the challenges facing independent book publishers. One result of this consolidation has been the transfer of ownership from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[35,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}