2025年国际出版业全球50强排名

dprwhitepaperdigital-publishing-report.de: Your guide through the digital transformation Table of contents About the Global 50 Publishing Ranking3Global publishing giants hold steady as World‘s biggest publishing companies – Growth, AI, and the resurgence of physicalbooks. The 2025 Global 50 CEO Talk20 Publishing beyond publishers. A snapshot of “Getting creative beyond just creative content”.Ralf Biesemeier (Zebralution Digital Publishing)on leadership and digital transformation44 About us Legal notice Global 50 Ranking of the International Publishing Industry 2025 Rüdiger Wischenbart Co-published by Bookdao (PR China), DIGITAL PUBLISHING REPORT (Germany), Livres Hebdo (France)and Publishers Weekly (USA) Sponsored by Zebralution Digital Publishing © 2025 Ruediger Wischenbart Content and Consulting 2025. All Rights Reserved DIGITAL PUBLISHING REPORT is a monthly magazine covering the digital transformation of the pub-lishing industry. Responsible for content: Daniel Lenz. Publisher: DIGITAL PUBLISHING REPORT GmbH/ An der Baldinger Mauer 40 / 86720 Nördlingen. Managing Directors: Steffen Meier, Daniel Lenz. Text ed-itor: Nikolaus Wolters. Headquarters: Nördlingen | HRB 39417 | AG Augsburg. VAT identification numberDE364599124. ISSN assigned by the National ISSN Center for Germany: Digital Publishing Report ISSN2512–9368. Image sources: All image rights are either noted directly in the articles or belong to the authors. About the Global 50Publishing Ranking Rüdiger Wischenbart explainsthe approach and methodology The“Global 50 Publishing Ranking 2025”,which has been updated every year since2007, represents 34 companies that each re- port revenues from publishing of over 500 mEUR (or550 mUSD). In addition to the traditional players inthe book publishing industry, we have compiled anew catalogue of around 18 other organisations that These new players are often platform operatorsthat bring a mix of original content and content fromother sources together for specific audiences. We be-lieve that these new market entrants significantly publishing of over 150 mEUR (or 200 mUSD). TheGlobal 50 Publishing Ranking is established in EUR,with conversions in both EUR and US$ made directlyfrom the respective original currency of a company’sfinancial reporting at year-end 2024 exchange rates.Since 2014, volatility in currency markets has largely Sources and types of included information Our research aims for the greatest possible clarity andtransparency. Data were collected from the best avail-able sources, which were predominantly official com- However, we are aware that our picture is incom-plete, which highlights the momentum of the ongo-ing transformation of an industry that, since its earli- All companies have been listed for the ranking bytheir 2024 results, with the exception of Simon andSchuster, which is listed – yet not ranked – based onresults of 2022. One corporation, the Japanese Hi- Not ranked, but inserted into the list accordingto their best available revenue data are Simon andSchuster, which does not disclose any recent finan- The educational group of McGraw-Hill, which hadbeen taken private equity firm Appollo Global Man- Research and distribution of this report Researched by Ruediger Wischenbart Content andConsulting, who also holds the copyright to the re-port, the Global Publishing Ranking includes the list TheRanking is co-published by Bookdao(PRChina), DIGITALPUBLISHING REPORT(Germany), The Global 50 does not receive any financial contri- Global publishing giants holdsteady as industry divides Global 50 Publishing Ranking 2025:the analysis by Rüdiger Wischenbart The Global 50 Publishing Ranking 2025 revealsa publishing industry marked by remarkablestability at the top, yet undergoing profound transformation beneath the surface. Based on 2024financial data, the world’s ten largest publishinggroups generated nearly 37 billion EUR in revenue– a figure that masks the diverging fortunes of dif-ferent sectors and business models within the in-dustry. While scientific, technical, and medical pub-lishers continue their steady expansion, accounting Perhaps most striking is the cultural shift reshap-ing reading tastes worldwide: the explosive growthof Manga and graphic novels has not only trans-formed bestseller lists but has fundamentally alteredtranslation patterns and challenged the dominanceof literary fiction publishers. Meanwhile, emerging Thefollowing analysis examines these trendsthrough detailed financial data spanning more than A snapshot of 10 out of the largest publishinggroups highlights several insights into the fundamen- First and foremost, the top 10 show a high degreeof continuity. Only very few new publishing groupshave risen to the very top over the past 10 years. And From a bird’s-eye perspective, the performance ofthe top 10 companies distinguishes between several For many years, this global publishing rankinghighlights how the publishing business is d