Frankfurt Book Fair 2016: Bonnier CEO Touts Stories, People

The top 52 companies in the global book business generate approximately 60 billion euros in value each year, according to the latest report of the top global publishers compiled by Ruediger Wischenbart, the Vienna-based publishing consultant. (PW published the list of the largest publishers in August). “You now see that publishing is a global business and there is now a process of stabilization driven by consolidation — driven by the big companies absorbing the smaller ones,” he said as part of his introduction to an interview with Jacob Dalborg, CEO of Bonnier.