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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Readers Digest Association (RDA)
Readers Digest is a multi-brand and multi-platform media and direct marketing company that reaches 145 million customers worldwide through a combination of print, digital and DRTV product offerings. Products include magazines, books, music, video, and advertising, with offices in 45 countries and customers in 79 countries.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Reed Elsevier
Elsevier is the world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services. Each year, the Science & Technology arm of Elsevier publishes 240,000 new research articles through 1,250 journals. Elsevier’s Health & Science unit distributes over 700 journals and 1,500 new health science titles, in print and electronically. Reed Elsevier Group is a UK registered company and is equally owned by two parent companies, Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Pearson Plc
Pearson is the world’s leading learning company with 41,000 employees in 70 countries, and a strong consumer publishing arm with Penguin as the main brand, publishing over 4000 fiction and non-fiction books each year, as well as the Financial Times newspaper (which is not included in this ranking). “For more than a decade now, Pearson’s strategy has revolved around our commitment to become the leading global learning company.” (AR 2012)
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Perseus Book Group
Founded in 1996 by venture capitalist Frank Pearl, the Perseus Book Group “is an independent company committed to enabling independent publishers to reach their potential whether those publishers are Perseus-owned, joint ventures or owned by third parties.” (Company statement)
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Média Participations
The Belgium-French group Média Participations is the largest publisher of comic books in Europe. Sixty percent of the company's new titles each year are bandes dessinées, or comics, which account for sales of 20 million from an overall 32 million. 2010 has seen modest growth from the continuous exploitation of the previously acquired stocks, as well as strategic investments in digital in-house developments.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press, a department of the University of Oxford, has a remarkably diverse publishing program that reaches far beyond traditional university presses. OUP publishes in more than 40 languages under a variety of print and digital formats that cover an extremely broad academic and educational spectrum. OUP's list is aimed at all audiences, from pre-school to secondary level schoolchildren; students to academics; general readers to researchers; and individuals to institutions.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: The Mondadori Group
The Mondadori Group is the leading book publisher in Italy and the third largest player in the consumer magazine segment in France. Mondadori operates through publishing houses such as Edizioni Mondadori, Einaudi, Piemme, Sperling & Kupfer, and Electa. Its magazine titles include Panorama and Donna moderna.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Les Editions Lefebvre Sarrut
Les Editions Lefebvre Sarrut is the result of a merger between Editions Francis Lefebvre and Editions Législatives in 1999, with a focus on publishing, professional education, and database integration. Editions Lefebvre Sarrut (as well as Formation Francis Lefebvre) specializes in tax, law, accountability, and social publishing, addressing the requirements and professional ethics for corporations and their international branches. It includes the main French Academic Law publisher, Dalloz, bought from Hachette in 2005.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Informa Plc
Informa is a professional information provider, with a focus on academic and professional publishing as well as informational events. Informa has 150 offices in 40 countries.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Kyowon Co. Ltd.
Kyowon, founded in 1985, is one of the biggest publishing companies in Korea. They have a high reputation for educational books, especially for prenatal, baby, toddler, and pre-school topics.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Kabushiki-gaisha Kōdansha (Kodansha Limited)
Kodansha was started by Seiji Noma in 1909 as a spin-off of the Dai-Nippon Yūbenkai (Greater Japan Oratorical Society). Its first publication was the literary magazine Yūben. The name Kodansha (taken from Kōdan Club, a now defunct magazine published by the company) was first used in 1911 when the publisher formally merged with the Dai-Nippon Yūbenkai. The company's current legal name has been in use since 1958. Its motto is "Omoshirokute tame ni naru" (To be interesting and beneficial).
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Klett
Klett Group is a private German educational resource company, which operates 59 subsidiaries at 40 locations in 17 countries. The portfolio comprises traditional textbooks, digital interactive learning solutions, professional literature, and fiction.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. (Kabushiki-gaisha Kadokawa Shoten)
The Kadokawa Group, which aims to become a "Mega Software Publisher," is moving beyond its existing publishing business to achieve sustainable growth in film and software (which includes websites and mobile sites), and by developing business overseas with an emphasis on Asia.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Holtzbrinck Group
Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH publishing group is a family-owned company headquartered in Germany. It publishes both print and electronic media in more than 80 countries, and serves educational, professional, and general readership markets.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
HMH is one of the world’s largest providers of educational products and solutions for pre-K–12 learning. Ninety percent of the company's revenu with 90% of revenue from education, with the remaining 10% from reference and trade. HMH is an innovator in the digital school-home market, offering blended and all-digital offerings such as HMH Fuse™, Write Source®, Singapore Math, Bar Models, and SkillsTutor, which help assess, extend and enhance classroom learning.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Haufe-Lexware
Haufe-Lexware is a German media group operating in business, law, and tax. The company was founded as Rudolf Haufe Verlag in 1934 in Berlin
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: HarperCollins
HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corporation, a diversified global media company with operations in cable network programming, film, television, direct broadcast satellite television, and publishing. Beside HarperCollins Publishing, the publishing division includes newspapers such as the New York Post; the Wall Street Journal and related publications in the U.S., Europe and Asia; and Dow Jones and its information services business. HarperCollins is one of the world’s largest English language book publishers. HarperCollins includes HarperCollins Publishers LLC (“HarperCollins U.S.,” headquartered in New York), HarperCollins Publishers Limited (London), and The Zondervan Corporation LLC (Michigan).
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Harlequin
Harlequin, a publisher of books for women, is wholly-owned by Torstar Corporation, a media and book publishing company. Harlequin comprises several imprints including MIRA, HQN, LUNA, Kimani Press and Carina Press. Publishing operations are divided in two divisions: North America and Overseas. In 2011, Harlequin published books in34 languages in 114 markets.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: GeMS Gruppo editorial Mauri Spagnol
Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol is a privately held publishing group and the third largest publisher in Italy. It controls 9 publishing houses: Corbaccio, Garzanti Libri, Guanda, Longanesi, Nord, Ponte alle Grazie, Salani, TEA, Vallardi, as well as ProLibro, and holds 50% of Superpocket. It launched Duomo Ediciones in Barcelona, Spain, in 2008.
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Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Groupe Gallimard
Founded in 1911 by Gaston Gallimard, the grandfather of today’s president and CEO Antoine Gallimard, as Les Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF), Gallimard has been home to many of the most prestigious writers in French literature throughout the 20th century, including Marcel Proust, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and 2008 Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. The centenary of Gallimard’s creation has been widely celebrated with numerous publications and exhibitions in 2010 - 2011. In these 100 years, the most popular authors ever published by Gallimard had been Albert Camus (with 29 million copies, including 10 million for L’Etranger (The Stranger), Antoine de Staint Exupery (26,3 m copies, including 13 millio of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince), and J.K. Rowling (26 million copies for the seven volumes of Harry Potter).
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