Holtzbrinck Publishing Group () is a
privately held German company based in
Stuttgart which
owns publishing companies worldwide. Through
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publ ...
, it is one of the
Big Five English-language publishing companies.
In 2015, it
merged
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most of its Macmillan Science and Education unit (including
Nature Publishing Group
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) with
Springer Science+Business Media
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Originally founded in 1842 ...
, creating the company
Springer Nature. Holtzbrinck owns 53% of the combined company.
History
The history of Georg von Holtzbrink's publishing activities during the Nazi years 1933-1945 has been controversial. After World War II,
Georg von Holtzbrinck, a former member of the Nazi party, reestablished a group in 1948, beginning as a German
book club. In the 1960s, it purchased
Droemer, Kindler,
Rowohlt and
S. Fischer Verlag, two German publishing companies. In 1985, it acquired the retail book division of
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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The Holt name is derived from that of U.S. publisher Henry Holt (1840–1926), co-founder of the e ...
, naming it the
Henry Holt Book Company
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. One year later, the company acquired ''
Scientific American
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''
magazine for $52.6 million. In 1994, it purchased a
majority interest
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in
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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from retiring
Roger W. Straus, Jr. A year later, it purchased a 70% majority interest in
The Macmillan Group
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publi ...
, and then the remaining shares in 1999.
In March 2006, Holtzbrinck forced
Tor Books
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles, and is the largest publisher of Chinese sci ...
, which is owned by Holtzbrinck, to stop making its books available as
e-book
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s via
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because of concerns regarding the lack of
digital rights management (DRM). The policy was later changed and Tor titles became available as DRM-free e-books in 2012. The Tor UK label in Britain (and hence the EU) does the same. The company also received a good deal of attention when it bought the then leading German social networking platform
StudiVZ in January 2007.
Holtzbrinck has total annual sales of 2.1 billion euros (as of 2005); 49% of sales are in Germany and 23% in North America. It had 2005 earnings before taxes of 142 million euros, and a total of 14,000 employees.
The current chairman of the group is Stefan von Holtzbrinck.
John Sargent is CEO of Macmillan, the company that unites the US-based businesses of the group.
Subsidiaries and imprints
In Germany:
*
S. Fischer Verlag
** FISCHER Krüger
**
** FISCHER Scherz
*
Rowohlt Verlag
Rowohlt Verlag is a German publishing house based in Hamburg, with offices in Reinbek and Berlin. It has been part of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Group since 1982. The company was created in 1908 in Leipzig by Ernst Rowohlt.
Divisions
* Kinder
* ...
*
Kiepenheuer & Witsch (85%)
*
Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur (50%)
**
O.W. Barth
*
Die Zeit (50%)
In the United States:
Using the
Macmillan name:
*
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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**
Faber & Faber
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(formerly; ended partnership in 2015)
*
Henry Holt and Company
**
Holt Paperbacks
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**
Metropolitan Books
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**
Times Books
Times Books (previously the New York Times Book Company) is a publishing imprint owned by the New York Times Company and licensed to Henry Holt and Company.
Times Books began as the New York Times Book Company in 1969, when The New York Times Com ...
**
Owl Books
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*
Palgrave Macmillan
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*
Picador
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*
Roaring Brook Press
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**
Neal Porter Books
**
First Second Books
First Second Books is an American publisher of graphic novels. An imprint of Roaring Brook Press, part of Holtzbrinck Publishers, First Second publishes fiction, biographies, personal memoirs, history, visual essays, and comics journalism. It al ...
*
St. Martin's Press
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**
Thomas Dunne Books
Thomas Dunne Books was an imprint of St. Martin's Press, which is a division of Macmillan Publishers. From 1986 until April 2020, it published popular trade fiction and nonfiction.
History
The imprint signed David Irving, a scholar, for a Joseph ...
*
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles, and is the largest publisher of Chinese scie ...
**
Tor Books
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles, and is the largest publisher of Chinese sci ...
**
Forge Books
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publi ...
*
Bedford, Freeman and Worth Publishing Group
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**
W.H. Freeman
**
Bedford-St. Martin's
**
Worth Publishers
** Macmillan Learning
*
Hayden-McNeil
*
Nature Publishing Group
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**
Scientific American
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Using the Audio Renaissance name in
Southfield, Michigan
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:
* Renaissance Media
In the United Kingdom:
*
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publ ...
**
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden. Its programme includes textbooks, journals, monographs, professional and reference works in print and online. It maintains off ...
**
Pan Macmillan
Pan Books is a publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany.
Pan Books began as an independent publisher, es ...
*** Macmillan
***
Pan Books
Pan Books is a publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany.
Pan Books began as an independent publisher, es ...
***
Picador
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***
Macmillan Children's Books
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People
* McMillan (surname)
* Clan MacMillan, a Highland Scottish clan
* Harold Macmillan, British statesman and politician
* James MacMillan, Scottish composer
* William Duncan MacMi ...
*** Campbell Books
*** Priddy Books
*** Boxtree
***
Sidgwick & Jackson
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**
Macmillan Education
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History
In 2011 Macmillan Publishers Ltd was fined GBP 11.3 million by t ...
*
Springer Nature (53%)
*
Digital Science
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The company focuses on strategic investments into startup companies that support the research lifecycle.
Histo ...
See also
*The ''
Big Five'' English-language book publishers:
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest pu ...
,
Penguin Random House
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On April 2, 2020, Bertelsmann announced the completion of its purchase ...
,
HarperCollins
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,
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publ ...
, and
Hachette Hachette may refer to:
* Hachette (surname)
* Hachette (publisher), a French publisher, the imprint of Lagardère Publishing
** Hachette Book Group, the American subsidiary
** Hachette Distribution Services, the distribution arm
See also
* Hachett ...
*
Springer Nature
*
Books in Germany
As of 2018, ten firms in Germany rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: C.H. Beck, Bertelsmann, , , Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, , Springer Nature, Thieme, , and Westermann Druck- und Verlagsgruppe. Overall ...
*
Bertelsmann
*
Elsevier
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*
Lagardère Publishing
Lagardère Publishing is the book publishing arm of Lagardère Group.
Publishing companies and imprints
France
* Calmann-Lévy
* Deux Coqs d'Or
*Disney Hachette Edition
* EDICEF
* Editions 1
* Editions du Chêne
**E.P.A
* Éditions Dunod
* Ed ...
*
McGraw Hill Education
McGraw Hill is an American educational publishing company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that publishes educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education. The company also publishes referen ...
*
Pearson plc
*
News Corp
*
Scholastic Corporation
Scholastic Corporation () is an American multinational publishing, education, and media company that publishes and distributes books, comics, and educational materials for schools, parents, and children. Products are distributed via retail and on ...
*
Thomson Reuters
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Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corpora ...
*
Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley (), is an American multinational publishing company founded in 1807 that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials. The company produces books, journals, and encyclopedias, in ...
Notes and references
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