Bonnier Media Germany

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The Bonnier Media Germany GmbH in Munich is a Founded in 1993, subsidiary of the Swedish media group Bonnier . The German book publishing activities are bundled in it. Bonnier Media includes the publishers Aladin, arsEdition , Berlin Verlag , Carlsen , Gabriel Verlag, Hörbuch Hamburg , Lappan Verlag , Libresco, MyBook, Nelson Verlag, Piper , Thienemann-Esslinger , Ullstein Buchverlage , BuchVertrieb Blank and, since 2017, the Munich publishing group .

Viktor Niemann was the managing director until 2006 and Hartmut Jedicke until 2013. In 2014 Christian Schumacher-Gebler took over the management of the German book group.

Bonnier Media Germany applies to after Bertelsmann belonging to Verlagsgruppe Random House and the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group , the third largest German publishing group. The pure book sales of the company in 2009 with five publishers at that time were 211 million euros (Random House with 42 publishers and imprints: 307 million euros, VG Holtzbrinck with six publishers: 233 million euros).

Individual evidence

  1. “Publishers must move closer together” . In: Buchreport , last accessed on May 2, 2015.
  2. Bonnier buys MVG. July 28, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
  3. 100 years of books to be talked about ( Memento of May 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Piper Publishing House. Publishing history 1904-2006 on the archived website of Piper-Verlag
  4. Short biography on the website of the Academy of the German Book Trade
  5. ^ Generation change at Bonnier . In: Buchreport , last accessed on May 2, 2015.
  6. Rüdiger Wischenbart: Buchgewerbe the pincer grasp. perlentaucher.de, October 8, 2012, online
  7. buchreport.magazin, April 2010, p. 41 ff.