Here’s our chart comparing the most recent earnings from a variety of publishers. Not all publishers break out their digital revenues, but I hope more will start to do so.
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Publisher (Parent Company) |
Date (Earnings Period) |
Book Publishing Revenues (Change*) |
Digital Revenues (Change*) |
Digital As %Age Of Total Book Sales |
Release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Simon & Schuster (CBS) |
Q3 2011 |
$220 million (+1%) |
Not broken out (“more than doubled”) |
17% |
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HarperCollins (News Corp.) |
Q3 2011 |
Not broken out |
Not broken out |
N/A. Print books sold in brick-and-mortar stores accounted for 71% of sales in the U.S., 77% worldwide |
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Penguin (Pearson) |
First 9 months of 2011 |
Not broken out; “level with 2010.” First 6 months of year: ?457 million |
Not broken out. First 6 months of year: Up 128% |
In first 6 months of year, e-book sales represented 14% of sales worldwide |
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Harlequin (Torstar) |
Q3 2011 |
C$115.7 million (-1.5% due to foreign exchange rates) |
Increased by C$7.5 million |
15.8% worldwide |
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Bloomsbury |
6-month period ending 8/31/11 |
?44.9 million (+16%) |
?2.5 (+564%) |
5.5% (U.S. and UK) |
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Scholastic children’s trade books |
Q1 2012 (ending 8/31/11) |
Children’s trade books: $59.6 million (+10%) |
Not broken out |
N/A |
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John Wiley & Sons professional/trade books |
Q1 2012 (ending 7/31/11) |
Professional/trade books: $100 million (+0.4%) |
$11 million (+175%) |
11% |
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Hachette Book Group (Lagardere) |
First half of 2011 |
Lagardere Publishing worldwide (U.S., UK, Australia, France, Spain): ?900 million (-7.7%) |
Not broken out |
20% (U.S.), 8% (UK); 5% of Lagardere Publishing revenues worldwide |
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Random House (Bertelsmann) |
First half of 2011 |
Random House worldwide: ?787 million (-0.5%) |
Not broken out, but “triple-digit percentage sales growth in e-books” |
Over 20% in the U.S. |
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Hachette Book Group (Lagardere) |
Q3 2011 |
Lagardere Publishing worldwide (U.S., UK, Australia, France, Spain): €601 million (-2.5% on like-for-like basis) |
Not broken out |
21% (U.S.), 9% (UK) |
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John Wiley & Sons professional/trade books |
12/8/2011 (Q2 2012) |
$112 million (-1%) |
$9 million (+145%) |
8% |
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Sourcebooks |
2011 |
N/A |
N/A but up 795% over 2010 |
28% |
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Hachette Book Group (Lagardere) |
Q4 2011 |
Lagardere Publishing worldwide (U.S., UK, Australia, France, Spain): €537 million (-3.8% on like-for-like basis). Hachette U.S. +12.8%. Hachette UK -4.8%. |
Not broken out |
20% (U.S.), 10% (UK). Across all of Lagardere in full year 2011, e-books accounted for 6% of total net sales. |
*Change from same period last year
Sources: paidContent.org, publishers’ financial reports, PublishersWeekly.com
Compiled by Laura Hazard Owen. Updated 1/18/2012
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