IP Profile of Biggest for-profit companies in EM

What are the 10 biggest for-profit companies in this field?

• How is the market distributed?
• Where are they located? Are there any incentives for specific locations?
• Correlate them with their main outputs (Data. Narratives. Tools)
• Understand and identify cases where these companies are “experimenting” or “adopting” commons-based approaches
• Identify these cases and treat them as entities that will also be placed in our mapping device (the quadrants)
• Identify what companies are the “Microsofts” of the field and what companies are the “IBMs” of the field

Biggest For-profit Companies

(6) St. Martin's/Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck

• Company Website: http://www.holtzbrinck.com/

Location

New York, NY, USA

Financial Information

• Annual Operating Revenues: $2,776,300 (Source: ORBIS)

Product Divisions

• Education and Science Divisions: Nature Publishing Group, Bedford/St. Martin’s, W.H. Freeman, Worth Publishers, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Spotlight Verlag, Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan Education, Scientific American, Verlag J.B. Metzler ('Education and Science' n.d.)
  • "Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a publisher of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online. NPG publishes journals, online databases and services across the life, physical and applied sciences and clinical medicine. NPG’s flagship journal Nature is a leading weekly, international scientific journal."
  • "[Bedford/St. Martin's] is an independent college publishing branch of St. Martin’s [...] Today, the publishing house leads in the field of English language, and it also produces leading history, communication studies and music titles."
  • "W.H. Freeman publishes natural sciences textbooks for colleges and high schools in the USA, drawing on the expertise of internationally renowned scientific authors."
  • "Since 1998, Worth Publishers has concentrated on the development of social science textbooks focusing on psychology, economics and sociology."
  • "Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic publisher, serving learning and training in higher education and the professional world. It has a broad publishing program which includes textbooks, journals, monographs, professional and reference works in print and online. Palgrave Macmillan is focused on publishing in the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Business."
  • "Macmillan Education is one of the world's leading publishers of English Language Teaching materials for teachers and students of English as a foreign or second language. Macmillan also leads the way in publishing school curriculum materials in many parts of the world, including Africa and the Caribbean."
  • "J.B. Metzler is one of Germany’s leading specialists in liberal arts publications. [...] Since the end of the Second World War it has added to and expanded its publications in history, anthropology, literary criticism, media studies, music, philosophy and languages. [...] It also publishes a wide range of textbooks and manuals as well as academic paperbacks and dictionaries."

Market Distribution

• "Market share for new textbooks (that is, the $4.2 billion piece) is highly consolidated, with 6 publishers holding about 85% of all sales dollars (Pearson, Thomson, McGraw Hill, John Wiley, Houghton Mifflin, and St. Martin's/Von Holtzbrinck). Although college publishing remains highly profitable for the large players, with reported EBITDA in some instances as high as 30%, growth has stalled, due in large part to the rise of the used book business, which represents the key strategic issue in the industry today." (Esposito 2005, 2)

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