Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
Status | Active |
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Founded | 1948 |
Founder | Georg von Holtzbrinck |
Country of origin | Germany |
Headquarters location | Stuttgart |
Distribution | Worldwide |
Publication types | Books, Newspapers, Academic journals, Magazines |
Imprints | Many |
Owner(s) |
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Official website | www |
Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart-based publishing holding company that owns publishing companies worldwide. The company has published a wide variety of books, from The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie to classics by Agatha Christie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and John Updike. Other well-known publications of the company include the scientific journal Nature and Scientific American.
On January 15, 2015, Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group / Nature Publishing Group and Springer Science+Business Media announced a merger.[2] It is one of the largest English-language publishers, known as the Big Five.
History
Established by Georg von Holtzbrinck in 1948, the group first began 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, naming it the Henry Holt Book Company. One year later, the company acquired Scientific American magazine for $52.6 million. In 1994, it purchased a majority interest in Farrar, Straus & Giroux from retiring Roger W. Straus, Jr. A year later, it purchased a 70% majority interest in The Macmillan Group, and then the remaining shares in 1999.
In March 2006, Holtzbrinck forced Tor Books, which is owned by Holtzbrinck, to stop making its books available as eBooks via Baen Ebooks because of concerns regarding the lack of digital rights management (DRM). The policy was later changed and Tor titles became available as DRM-free ebooks 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.
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.[3]
Subsidiaries and imprints
In Germany:
- S. Fischer Verlag
- Rowohlt Verlag
- Kiepenheuer & Witsch (85%)
- Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur (50%)
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- Die Zeit (50%)
In the United States:
Using the Macmillan name:
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Henry Holt and Company
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Picador
- Roaring Brook Press
- St. Martin's Press
- Tom Doherty Associates
- Bedford, Freeman and Worth Publishing Group
- Hayden-McNeil
- Nature Publishing Group
In the United Kingdom:
- Macmillan Publishers
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Pan Macmillan
- Macmillan
- Pan Books
- Picador
- Macmillan Children's Books
- Campbell Books
- Priddy Books
- Boxtree
- Sidgwick & Jackson
- Nature Publishing Group
- Macmillan Education
In India:
- Macmillan Publishers India Ltd.
- MPS Limited (content and technology service provider)[4]
See also
- The Big Five English-language book publishers: Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers, and Hachette
- Springer Nature
Notes and references
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- ↑ "Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and BC Partners Announce Agreement to Merge Majority of MacMillan Science and Education with Springer Science+Business Media", Jan. 15, 2015.
- ↑ Book View, Publishing Trends, April 2006
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