The Global 50 White Paper offers a data-rich, in-depth examination of the global book industry and its strategic trends and challenges for 2025.

The 50-page publication provides these elements:

• A list of30+ globally leading publishing companies with revenue from publishing and wholesale distribution of more than 500 million euros, covering consumer books as well as scientific and educational publishing;
• An analysis of the underlying forces shaping these companies;
• The transcript of a CEO Talk with Núria Cabutí (Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial), and Chantal Restivo-Alessi (HarperCollins);
• An interview with Ralf Biesemeier (Zebralution); and
• FIRST: A commented list of around 20 globally leading non-traditional publishing operations and related platforms around the world that market observers should keep an eye on.

The White Paper 2025, which was powered by Zebralution , conceived as so often in my ongoing conversations with Carlo Carrenho, and produced by our partners at Digital Publishing Report can be downloaded free of charge here.

The full Global 50 Publishing Ranking 2024, which includes, in addition, detailed company profiles of 50 leading publishing groups, based on financial data for 2024, can be purchased here.