Which of these is the world's largest publishing company?

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette and Macmillan.

The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp. The name is a combination of several publishing firm names: Harper & Row, an American publishing company acquired in 1987 (whose own name was the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers (founded 1817) and Row, Peterson & Company), together with UK publishing company William Collins, Sons (founded 1819), acquired in 1990.

The worldwide CEO of HarperCollins is Brian Murray. HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, India, and China. The company publishes many different imprints, both former independent publishing houses and new imprints.

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Wayne Todd

Should have said one of the largest as the answer isn't the largest.

Jacqueline Tattam

Kirk Tanaka, it’s not a good ‘Q & E’ when the answer is incorrect. The correct answer is Penguin Random House.

Rod Peel

Answer is wrong. Also there is no distinction between paper and digital publishing. For paper then Pearson is the largest. If digital is included then Amazon is the largest.