Status Active

Founded 1948
Founder Georg von Holtzbrinck
Country of
origin
Germany
Headquarters
location
Stuttgart
Distribution Worldwide
Publication
types
Books, Newspapers, Academic
journals, Magazines
Imprints Many
Owner(s) Monika Schoeller
Stefan von Holtzbrinck
[1]
Official website www.holtzbrinck.com
(http://www.holtzbrinck.com)
Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing
Group
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Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart-based
publishing holding company which owns publishing
companies worldwide. The company has published a wide
variety of books, from The Satanic Verses of Salman Rushdie
to classics by Agatha Christie, J ean-Paul Sartre, Ernest
Hemingway and J ohn Updike. Other well-known
publications of the company include the scientific journal
Nature and Scientific American.
1 History
1.1 Subsidiaries and Imprints
2 See also
3 Notes and references
4 External links
Established by Georg von Holtzbrinck in 1948, the group first began as a German book club. In the 1960s, it
purchased Droemer, Kindler, Rowohlt and S. Fischer Verlag, two German publishing companies. In 1985, it
acquired the retail book division of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, naming it the Henry Holt Book Company. One
year later, the company acquired Scientific American magazine for $52.6 million. In 1994, it purchased a
majority interest in Farrar, Straus & Giroux from retiring Roger W. Straus, J r. A year later, it purchased a 70%
majority interest in The Macmillan Group, and then the remaining shares in 1999.
In March 2006, Holtzbrinck forced Tor Books, which is owned by Holtzbrinck, to stop making its books
available as eBooks via Baen Ebooks because of concerns regarding the lack of digital rights management
(DRM). These concerns abated in 2007 and selected Tor titles will soon be available as e-books via Baen and a
variety of other online retailers. The company also received a good deal of attention when it bought the then
leading German social networking platform StudiVZ in J anuary 2007.
Holtzbrinck has total annual sales of 2.1 billion euros (as of 2005); 49% of sales are in Germany and 23% in
North America. It had 2005 earnings before taxes of 142 million euros, and a total of 14,000 employees.
Chairman of the group is Stefan von Holtzbrinck. J ohn Sargent is CEO of Macmillan, the company that unites
the US-based businesses of the group.
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Subsidiaries and Imprints
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German newspaper Die Zeit in
newsstand
In Germany:
S. Fischer Verlag
O.W. Barth
Wolfgang Krger
Argon Verlag
Scherz Verlag
Fretz & Wasmuth
Rowohlt Verlag
Kiepenheuer & Witsch (85%)
Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur (50%)
Verlag J . B. Metzler (de)
Die Zeit (50%)
In the United States:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Faber & Faber
Henry Holt and Company
Holt Paperbacks
Metropolitan Books
Times Books
Owl Books
Palgrave Macmillan
Picador
Roaring Brook Press
Neal Porter Books
First Second Books
St. Martin's Press
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
Forge Books
Bedford, Freeman and Worth Publishing Group
W.H. Freeman
Bedford/St. Martin's
Worth Publishers
Hayden-McNeil
Nature Publishing Group
Scientific American, Inc.
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In the United Kingdom:
Macmillan Publishers (100%)
Palgrave Macmillan
Pan Macmillan
Macmillan
Pan Books
Picador
Macmillan Children's Books
Campbell Books
Priddy Books
Boxtree
Sidgwick & J ackson
Nature Publishing Group
Macmillan Education
In India:
Macmillan Publishers India Ltd.
MPS Limited (Content & technology service provider)
[3]
The Big Six book publishers: Simon & Schuster, Random House, Penguin Putnam, HarperCollins and
Hachette
^ Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck.
"Management" (http://www.holtzbrinck.com/artikel
/779884&s=en). Verlagsgruppe Georg von
Holtzbrinck. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
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^ Book View (http://www.publishingtrends.com
/copy/06/0604/0604BookView.html), Publishing
Trends, April 2006
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^ "MPS | Publishing Solutions | About us"
(http://www.macmillanpublishingsolutions.com
/AboutUs/MPS.aspx).
Macmillanpublishingsolutions.com. Retrieved
2013-02-17.
3.
Official website (http://www.holtzbrinck.com/)
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