20 October 2014
In the latest "Global Survey of Book Publishing," published by industry consultant Rüdiger Wischenbart, Pearson topped the list of the world's largest publishers and was followed by Reed Elsevier, Thompson Reuters, Wolters Kluwer, Random House, Hachette Livre, McGraw-Hill Education, Grupo Planeta, and Cengage. According to Wischenbart, the top 10 companies account for more than half of the total industry valued at somewhere north of 100 billion euros.