Julia Stoll
Research expert covering TV and video media
Book market in Europe - statistics & facts
Data on the largest book publishers worldwide ranked by revenue revealed that four of the top five were European publishers, with RELX Group, Bertelsmann, Pearson, and Wolters Kluwer each generating between four and six billion U.S. dollars worldwide in 2020. In terms of individual sellers, however, certain European countries fared better than others when it came to sales. Between 2019 and 2020, book sales growth among individual booksellers in Italy, Slovakia, and Portugal declined by 15 percent or more, whereas Sweden, Ireland, and Norway fared the best among all European booksellers in the study.
