Sometimes one gets ideas. Ideas that are somewhat time consuming. After looking at my shelves and seeing the male-female ratio of authors I looked at another statistic. The publishers. I can tell you I clearly underestimated the amount of different imprints I have on my shelves. My gosh. And I had to write it all down because I had no idea what was an imprint and if it was one, where it belonged. So I had over 70 written down.
It was a lot of work. Someone remind me of this whenever I have another one of these bright ideas.
Publishers per Country Percentage
As you can see there are 4 countries I get books from publisher wise. The Netherlands, Belgium, UK and America. I don’t think this is very surprising as I am Dutch so it stands to reason that if I have books in Dutch I’d have books from publishers in that country. I am surprised to see Belgium here. I don’t really know any of their publishers but I do know one now. You don’t generally see a lot of their books here.
As I read English a lot seeing USA and UK isn’t very weird either. They are two of the biggest publishing countries when it comes to English books. Canada and Australia seem to fall away in that. In general books by those publisher just don’t seem to be on offer here. Not in an actual book store nor online.
Percentage wise Dutch, UK and US publishers are rather close. A lot of authors are from USA that I read in English so it does stand to reason that they would end up quite a bit higher.
The Publishers
So the percentages of the publishers you see down below are per country so not of the total shelves. I did not have time to go that far haha. Also the imprints mentioned are the ones that are actually on my shelves and not all the imprints the publishers has.
Dutch Publishers
| Publishers | Percentage | Imprints | Some of the Books I own |
| Lannoo NL | 26,2% | Meulenhoff Boekerij Meulenhoff-Boekerij Best of YA |
Rode Letter by Anne Bishop Temeraire by Naomi Novik |
| Luiting-Sijthoff | 21,4% | VIB Kids L.S. Fantasy Poema Pockets |
Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend |
| Uitgeverij de Fontein | 8,3% | Drakendal by Scarlett Thomas | |
| Harper Collins Holland | 7,7% | Harlequin Holland | Talon by Julie Kagawa |
| Blossom Books | 7,7% | Nimona by Noelle Stevenson | |
| Overamstel Uitgevers | 6,5% | De Vliegende Hollander Moon The House of Books |
De Raven Jongens by Maggie Stiefvater Wolvenjacht by Jim Butcher |
| Gottmer Uitgevers Groep | 5,4% | Legend by Marie Lu | |
| Uitgeverij de Harmonie | 4,2% | Harry Potter en de Steen der Wijzen by J.K. Rowling | |
| Prometheus | 2,4% | Vasselluci | |
| WPG | 2,4% | AW Bruna Leopold |
Brief voor de Koning by Tonke Dragt |
| Singel Uitgeverij | 1,8% | Querido | De Erfenis van Richard Grenville by Natalie Koch |
| Storm Publishers (X) | 1,8% | Het Boek van Voorheen van Jen Minkman | |
| Lemniscaat | 1,1% | In Transit by Margaretha van Andel | |
| Uitgeverij Zilverspoor | 1,1% | Spiegelgeest by Cocky van Dijk | |
| VBK Uitgeverij | 0,6% | Atlas Contact | Pride& Prejudice & Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith |
| Librero | 0,6% | ||
| Dutch Venture Publishing | 0,6% | Het Laatsthe Licht van Jen Minkman |
Belgian Publisher
| Publishers | Percentage | Imprints | Some of the Books I own |
| Standaard Uitgeverij | 100% | Mantenau |
UK Publishers
| Publishers | Percentage | Imprints | Some of the Books I own |
| Hatchette UK | 33,7% | Hodder & Stoughton Orion Headline Little Brown Gollancz Atom Books Jo Fletcher Indigo |
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett Mort by Terry Pratchett Caraval by Stephanie Garber Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams |
| Harper Collins Publishers UK | 24,3% | Harper Harper Voyager Borough Press |
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang |
| Penguin UK | 15,5% | Corgi Doubleday Bantam |
The Golem’s Eye by Jonathan Stroud Thud! By Terry Pratchett |
| Bloomsbury | 7,7% | The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell | |
| Bonnier Books UK | 3,9% | Hot Key Books | The Cruel Prince by Holly Black |
| Walker Books | 3,9% | And the Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness | |
| Titan Books | 3,9% | A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab | |
| Pan Macmillan | 2,8% | The Gilded Cage by Vic James | |
| Faber & Faber | 1,1% | The Buried Giant by Kazu Ishiguro | |
| Head of Zeus | 1,1% | The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu | |
| Watkins Media | 0,5% | Angry Robot | Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette NG |
| Atlantic Books | 0,5% | Mr. Penumbra’s 24h. Book Store by Robin Sloane |
USA Publishers
| Publishers | Percentage | Imprints | Some of the Books I own |
| Penguin Random House | 31,7% | Random House Penguin Razorbill Berkley DAW Putnam Plume Speak Delacorte Dely Rey Crown KnopfDoubleday Ace Ballantine Anchor Books |
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White The True Queen by Zen Cho Enchanted Inc by Shanna Swendson Seraphina by Rachel Hartman Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor |
| Hachette USA | 30,2% | Disney-Hyperion Orbit Books |
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan |
| Macmillan | 17,6% | Tor Henry Holt Picador Feiwell & Friends Flat Iron Books Squarefish |
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Addams The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her Own Making All Systems Red by Martha Wells |
| Simon & Schuster | 4,5% | McEldery Books Pocket Books |
A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison |
| Harper Collins Publishers USA | 3,5% | Balzer + Bray Greenwillow Books Katherine Tegen Books |
Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch |
| Abrams | 3,5% | Amulet | Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria |
| Scholastic | 3% | Blue Lily Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater | |
| Sourcebooks | 1,5% | The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco | |
| Sky Horse Publishing | 1,5% | Sky Pony Press | Timekeeper by Tara Sim |
| Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 1% | Graphia Books | |
| Nort Star Editions | 0,5% | Flux | The Abyss surrounds us by Emily Skrutskie |
| Walker Books | 0,5% | Candlewick Press | |
| M.L. Wang Books | 0,5% | The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang | |
| Interlude Press | 0,5% | Duet Books | Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee |
This is such an interesting post. I haven’t seen one like this before but it’s intriguing to see where other reviewers get their books from 😀 Jen
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It is. It was also really interesting to see where some of the imprints come from.
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Oooo, this is a fab post! I love things like this – statistics and breakdowns and such like. Thank you for sharing!! 🙂
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Me too. I also love figuring the breakdown out haha.
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Hmm, it’s interesting to look at this breakdown from the perspective of a ‘not Anglophone’ country – I mean, for example, in terms of which American books get picked up by a Dutch publishers vs. which ones you got through the original American publisher.
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True. It is interesting to see what kind of books get translated. You did make me think about looking into how many of my books in dutch are translations vs dutch authors and such. For next year.
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Wow! Ik heb zelf ook al een paar keer zo’n ‘Als ik nu eens …’ – blogpost willen uitwerken om dan vervolgens te ontdekken dat er wel heel veel tijd in kroop. Maar voor dit artikel ga je inderdaad behoorlijk wat tijd hebben nodig gehad. Wel super interessant om het eindresultaat te bewonderen.
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Ja zeker. Toen had ik dus ook nog best wel wat tijd. Dat is ondertussen wel minder haha nu Merijn niet meer dut.
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This is very interesting! I don’t pay much attention to the publishers, but I do take notice when it’s Tor for some reason. It’s also interesting to see what big houses some of the imprints are from. Thanks for taking the time to do this. 👍✨
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Yeah I quite like Tor. And yeah I found that interesting as well and quite frankly, it took a lot of time to figure out where some came from.
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