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'''Holtzbrinck Publishing Group''' ({{Langx|de|Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck}}) is a [[Privately held company|privately held]] German company headquartered in [[Stuttgart]], that [[Holding company|owns]] [[publishing]] companies worldwide. Through [[Macmillan Publishers]], it is one of the Big Five English-language [[publishing]] companies.
'''Holtzbrinck Publishing Group''' ({{Langx|de|Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck}}) is a German publishing company headquartered in [[Stuttgart]], that [[Holding company|owns]] [[publishing]] companies worldwide. Through [[Macmillan Publishers]], it is one of the [[Big Five (publishers)|Big Five]] English-language [[publishing]] companies.


In 2015, it [[Mergers and acquisitions|merged]] most of its Macmillan Science and Education unit (including [[Nature Publishing Group]]) with [[Springer Science+Business Media]], creating the company [[Springer Nature]]. Holtzbrinck owns 53% of the combined company.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Publisher of Nature and Scientific American to Form Joint Venture|url = https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/publisher-of-nature-and-scientific-american-to-form-joint-publishing-venture/|website = [[The New York Times]]|access-date = 14 January 2016|last = Bray|first = Chad|date = 15 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Completed merger forms 'Springer Nature'|url = http://www.thebookseller.com/news/completed-merger-forms-springer-nature|website = [[The Bookseller]]|access-date = 2016-01-14|last = Carpenter|first = Caroline|date = 6 May 2015}}</ref>
In 2015, it [[Mergers and acquisitions|merged]] most of its Macmillan Science and Education unit (including [[Nature Publishing Group]]) with [[Springer Science+Business Media]], creating the company [[Springer Nature]]. Holtzbrinck owns 53% of the combined company.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Publisher of Nature and Scientific American to Form Joint Venture|url = https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/publisher-of-nature-and-scientific-american-to-form-joint-publishing-venture/|website = [[The New York Times]]|access-date = 14 January 2016|last = Bray|first = Chad|date = 15 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Completed merger forms 'Springer Nature'|url = http://www.thebookseller.com/news/completed-merger-forms-springer-nature|website = [[The Bookseller]]|access-date = 2016-01-14|last = Carpenter|first = Caroline|date = 6 May 2015}}</ref>

Latest revision as of 21:49, 21 December 2025

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Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Template:Langx) is a German publishing company headquartered in Stuttgart, that owns publishing companies worldwide. Through Macmillan Publishers, it is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies.

In 2015, it merged most of its Macmillan Science and Education unit (including Nature Publishing Group) with Springer Science+Business Media, creating the company Springer Nature. Holtzbrinck owns 53% of the combined company.[1][2]

History

The history of Georg von Holtzbrink's publishing activities during the Nazi years 1933-1945 has been controversial.[3][4] After World War II, Georg von Holtzbrinck, a former member of the Nazi party,[5] reestablished a group in 1948, beginning as a German book club. In the 1960s, it purchased the German publishing companies Droemer, Kindler, Rowohlt and S. Fischer Verlag. 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, Jr. A year later, it purchased a 70% majority interest in Macmillan Publishers, and then the remaining shares in 1999. In 2001, Pearson sold the Macmillan trademark in the United States (gained with the acquisition of Simon & Schuster educational and professional division, which included the assets of former Macmillan Inc.) to Holtzbrinck.[6]

In March 2006, Holtzbrinck forced Tor Books, which is owned by Holtzbrinck, to stop making its books available as e-books via Baen Ebooks because of concerns regarding the lack of digital rights management (DRM). The policy was later changed and Tor titles became available as DRM-free e-books in 2012. The Tor UK label in Britain (and hence the EU) does the same. The company also received a good deal of attention when it bought the then leading German social networking platform StudiVZ in January 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.

The current chairman of the group is Stefan von Holtzbrinck. Don Weisberg is CEO of Macmillan, the company that unites the US-based businesses of the group. Previous CEOs of Macmillan include John Sargent.[7]

Subsidiaries and imprints

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In Germany:

In the United States:
Using the Macmillan name:

Former in the United States:

  • Renaissance Media - was based in Los Angeles when its catalogue was acquired by Holtzbrinck in 2001[10]
    • Renaissance Books - assets and back catalogue fully merged into Holtzbrinck's St. Martin's Press, which formerly provided the book printing service for Rennaissance[10]
    • Audio Renaissance - renamed Macmillan Audio when Holtzbrinck switched to Macmillan name in the United States

In the United Kingdom:

See also

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Notes and references

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  7. ↑ Book View Template:Webarchive, Publishing Trends, April 2006
  8. ↑ https://www.fischerverlage.de/verlage/fischer_krueger, 24 April 2020
  9. ↑ https://www.fischerverlage.de/verlage/fischer_scherz, 24 April 2020
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External links

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