According to data gathered in autumn 2019, Penguin Random House publishes 70 thousand digital books each year on average, as well as 15 thousand print books. HarperCollins has a catalog of over 200 thousand titles and publishes around ten thousand new books each year, and CBS Corporation subsidiary Simone & Schuster publishes in the vicinity of two thousand books annually. Hachette Book Group publishes hundreds of audiobooks per year as well print titles, and despite being a much younger company is now one of 'The Big 5' publishers in the United States.
Number of titles published by leading book publishers per year in the United States as of 2019, by company
Characteristic
Number of titles
Penguin Random House
85,000
HarperCollins
10,000
Simon & Schuster
2,000
Hachette Book Group
1,800
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