Monday, January 30, 2012

What are the best book publishing companies?

and what books have they produced? thanks!What are the best book publishing companies?
That is a huge question to answer. Here are the top ten publishers.





Top Ten Trade Publishers



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1 Random House 17.2%

2 HarperCollins* 13.3%

3 Simon %26amp; Schuster 9.2%

4 Penguin 8.7%

5 Hachette 5.9%

6 Thomas Nelson 4.8%

7 St. Martin鈥檚 3.2%

8 Tyndale 1.9%

9 John Wiley %26amp; Sons 1.7%

10 Scholastic 1.6%

Total Top Ten 67.5%



As you can see together they publish 67% of all the traditionally published books today. None can be reached directly by an author. They do not accept unsolicited manuscripts or queries. They are just too busy. They only deal with agents. Pax-C

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