America's publishing interest is a function of six giant conglomerates,.

(Germany): Bertelsmann AG owns 70 imprints including  Random House, Knopf, Ballantine, Crown, Pantheon, Vintage, Bantam Dell, Broadway Doubleday, Anchor, and Villard, Del Ray, Fodor's and Fawcett that are divided into three groups

(US): Simon & Schuster includes Pocket Books, Free Press, Scribner, Touchstone, Fireside, and Atria Books

(France): Hachette Book Group, USA owns Little Brown and Company and Grand Central Publishing, which has ten imprints

(Australia/News Corp.): HarperCollins includes Harper Paperbacks, Harper Mass Market, HarperOne, HarperBusiness, Avon, William Morrow, and Ecco

(United Kingdom/Pearson): Penguin Group (USA) includes Penguin, Putnam, Viking, Berkley, Signet, Plume, Grosset, Ace, Jeremy P. Tarcher,  Dutton, Penguin Press, Perigee and Portfolio

(Germany/Holtzbrinck): Macmillan U.S. includes Henry Holt and Company, St. Martin's Press, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux


Three additional cooperatives:


•    Perseus is associated with a dozen imprints
•    John Wiley is a nonfiction publishing house