THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE · OCTOBER 2026
BOOKS
The publishing houses that decide what the world reads — who owns them, who runs them, and what they publish. LIKE® Books opens its worldwide guide with the houses themselves: the Big Five, the great houses of Europe, the manga powers of Japan, and the education, scholarly and independent publishers of standing.
THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE
THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE · OCTOBER 2026
THE WORLD'S PUBLISHING HOUSES
31 houses — from Penguin Random House and Gallimard to Kodansha and W. W. Norton — with headquarters, ownership, verified leadership, principal imprints, what each house publishes, and its scale where the house itself publishes the figures. The gaps are named, never padded.
BOOKS · THE PEOPLE
WHO RUNS WORLD PUBLISHING
The chief executives of the great houses — and what their lists, from manga and children's books to backlist and audio, say about where reading is going.
More Books guides will join this department in the months ahead — beginning with the university presses and the publishing houses of China.