This is what the publishing industry will look like if the Big Six become the Big Four

Our chart includes the so-called “Big Six” major trade publishers, ranked by trade and consumer sales in 2011, according to research firm Outsell. They will become the Big Five by mid-2013, if Penguin Random House is approved. HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster could make it the Big Four. And if Lagardere feels compelled to defend its territory, we could even be looking at the Big Three in short order.

Via the crack squad at Quartz: http://qz.com/29783

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   How about, instead of everyone merging, everyone purge and condense their imprints first? It would make my life easier.

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    Basically the publishing industry is consolidating because the traditional profit margins are only 10% and they want to...

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    Unfortunately, no Simon & Schuster/Harper Collins meme will be as funny as the Random Penguin ones. But I suppose we...

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    Hmm.

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