WWW.PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM 371 2 RELX Group Reed Elsevier PLC & U.K./U.S./ $5,278 $5,609
Reed Elsevier NV Netherlands2 1 Pearson Pearson PLC U.K. $5,244 $6,070
3 3 Thomson Reuters The Woodbridge Company Ltd. Canada $5,133 $4,941
4 4 Bertelsmann Bertelsmann AG Germany $4,150 $4,240
5 5 Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer Netherlands $3,758 $3,994
6 6 Hachette Livre Lagardère France $2,576 $2,735
7 8 Springer Nature Springer Nature Germany $1,897 $1,956
8 10 Wiley Wiley U.S. $1,796 $1,719
9 12 HarperCollins News Corp U.S. $1,758 $1,636
10 9 Scholastic Scholastic U.S. $1,628 $1,742
11 – Phoenix Publishing and Phoenix Publishing and China $1,602 $1,419
Media Co. Media Co.12 10 McGraw-Hill Education Apollo Global U.S. $1,597 $1,719
Management LLC13 13 Cengage Learning Apax and Omers Capital U.S./Canada $1,466 $1,461
Holdings II Partners14 14 Holtzbrinck Verlagsgruppe Georg von Germany $1,419 $1,403
Holtzbrinck15 15 Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt U.S./Cayman $1,322 $1,408
Harcourt Co. Islands16 16 Informa Informa PLC U.K. $1,167 $1,229
17 18 Kodansha Kodansha Ltd. Japan $1,093 $1,045
18 17 Oxford University Press Oxford University U.K. $1,068 $1,139
19 43 Kyowon Kyowon Co. Ltd. South Korea $1,057 $260
20 19 Shueisha Hitotsubashi Group Japan $1,057 $1,041
21 20 Kadokawa Publishing Kadokawa Holdings Inc. Japan $1,052 $998
22 7 Grupo Planeta Grupo Planeta Spain $1,027 $1,974
23 – China South Publishing & China South Publishing & China $1,003 $1,197
Media Group Media Group Co. Ltd.24 21 Shogakukan Hitotsubashi Group Japan $880 $862
25 – Editis SAS Vivendi SA France $858 $907
26 24 Klett Klett Gruppe Germany $858 $731
27 – Central China Publishing & Central China Publishing & China $836 $776
Media Investment Holding Media Investment Holding
Group Group Co Ltd.28 22 Simon & Schuster CBS U.S. $825 $830
29 23 Grupo Santillana Prisa SA Spain $688 $784
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