There are only six major companies in the world of publishing. Without independent publishers these few corporations would control the knowledge-base for the entire world!
THE BIG SIX PUBLISHERS
· Random House
(owned by German Bertelsmann AG, largest English-language publisher)
· Penguin Group
(owned by British Pearson PLC, largest publisher in the world)
· Simon & Schuster
(owned by CBS, one of the Big Six media conglomerates)
· HarperCollins
(owned by Ruper Murdoch’s News Corp., one of the Big Six media conglomerates)
· MacMillan Publishers Ltd
(owned by the German Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group)
· Hachette Book Group
(owned by French Lagardére Group, formally Warner Books of Time-Warner)