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Big Four (book publishing)

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The Big Four are the four biggest English-language book publishing companies. Sometimes, the term is also used to refer to the Big Four academic publishers.

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Big Four book publishers

  • Simon & Schuster (a subsidiary of CBS Corporation)
  • HarperCollins (a subsidiary of NewsCorp)
  • Penguin Random House (a subsidiary of Bertelsmann and Pearson)
  • Hachette Livre

    • Three of these four companies have their headquarters in New York City.

    Big Four academic publishers

    The four largest academic publishers own around 30% of all peer-reviewed journals:

  • Elsevier (3,057 journals)
  • Springer Science+Business Media (2,987 journals) – now part of Springer Nature
  • John Wiley & Sons (2,339 journals)
  • Taylor & Francis, the academic division of Informa (2,105 journals)

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