The Consolidation of Publishing Houses

The Consolidation of Publishing Houses, Past and Present

In today's post, we will discuss these consolidations, explaining how they can affect authors and contextualizing them historically.

The Publishing Industry Has a New Nightmare

Penguin Random House, itself a product of consolidation, tried to consolidate further by buying one of its chief remaining rivals, Simon & ...

Who Are the Big 5 Publishing Houses and Why Are They Merging?

One big reason people are concerned with these mergers is that it could lead to the consolidation and decommissioning of some imprints, which ...

What Does the Consolidation of the "Big Five" Book Publishers Mean?

your favorite novel or memoir was published by one of the “Big Five” book publishers — HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House ...

Is the consolidation of publishing houses good or bad for authors?

The merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster will reduce the number of big US publishers from five to four. It raises the question of how big is too ...

American Literature Loses Out to Consolidation - The New York Times

OXFORD, Miss. — Penguin Random House, the largest English-language trade book publisher in the world, has made an offer to acquire Simon ...

Market Consolidation and the Demise of the Independently ...

If anything, the largest of publishers have achieved that success for a reason – they're very good at what they do, and because publishing is a ...

Consolidation in Book Publishing and the Success of Authors

The consolidation of publishing houses that has resulted in a few conglomerates controlling the market has transformed the publishing landscape ...

What Happens When Publishing Houses Merge? - Book Riot

The merger of the two publishers would “create a publishing behemoth” that would presumably harm authors and consumers.

Over the Past 25 Years, the Big Publishers Got Bigger—and Fewer

As 2022 began, the U.S. trade publishing business was dominated by what has been called the Big Five—Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, ...

What Big Publishing Consolidation Means for Authors - Brooke Warner

Houses breed cultures, of course. What workplace doesn't? But within book publishing, consolidation means fewer decision-makers and fewer personalities. It ...

A Huge Merger's Collapse Breaks a Pattern of Consolidation in ...

Many feared that the further reduction in the number of big publishing houses to four would leave authors and literary agents with fewer buyers ...

How Has Big Publishing Changed American Fiction?

These parent companies changed the business of books, inciting an arms race that encouraged publishers to grow larger and larger, consolidating ...

The Consolidation of Book Publishing in the US: A Network Graph ...

Before 2012, the major US publishers were known as The Big Six and included: Random House, Penguin, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, & ...

Will Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Consolidate?

In this piece, I focus primarily on consolidation among the US, UK, and EU commercial primary publishers. In this segment, consolidation is ...

Further Consolidation In The Publishing Industry - LinkedIn

The acquisition, if it goes through the regulatory hoops, will mean that the Big Five of the publishing world will now be down to the Big Four - ...

Quantifying Consolidation in the Scholarly Journals Market

Overall, the market has significantly consolidated since 2000 — when the top 5 publishers held 39% of the market of articles to 2022 where they ...

Authors and bookstore owners worry a big publishing merger will ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster to block the companies from completing a merger valued at ...

A huge merger's collapse breaks a pattern of consolidation in ...

The unraveling stopped the largest publisher in the U.S. — Penguin Ranom House — from growing substantially larger.

Authors and bookstore owners worry a big publishing merger will ...

The Department of Justice says that the proposed merger announced in 2020 between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster would stifle competition.