School book publisher
An educational publisher is on textbooks specialized and other educational media publishing .
School book publishers in Germany
In the Federal Republic of Germany there is a great variety of textbooks for the different school subjects, school years, school types and for the different federal states, in which different curricula apply. The school book publishers sell at least 40,000 different school books.
The major school book publishers in the Federal Republic of Germany are Ernst Klett Verlag in Stuttgart, Cornelsen Verlag in Berlin and the Westermann publishing group in Braunschweig. These three groups divide 90% of the textbook market among themselves. The rest of the market consists of around 70 independent school book publishers such as B. the Mildenberger Verlag from Offenburg.
The vocational school book market is dominated by Bildungsverlag EINS (Cologne), in which various formerly independent vocational school publishers were absorbed such as Stam Verlag, Gehlen-Verlag, Kieser-Verlag and others. The entire publishing house has belonged to the Westermann Group since 2013 .
School book publishers in the former GDR
In the GDR , Volk und Wissen Verlag had a quasi- monopoly on the production of school books.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The catalog, as of May 2008, of the Libri bar range , which carries large parts of the available range of all publishers, lists 39,057 school books. The corresponding catalog of the KNV bar range lists 47,531 school books as of May 3, 2008.
- ↑ VdS Bildungsmedien, formerly the Association of Textbook Publishers, speaks on its website of 56,000 searchable educational media in its own database.
- ↑ Verena Brandenberg: Legal and Economic Aspects of Publishing School Books, p. 52 (PDF; 894 kB)