Top Publishing Houses in Twitter #12 (September 2010)

New "journey" of the ranking also known as the World Series/League of Publishing Houses @Twitter. Always in the 1st Saturday of each month (or next sunday), the top Publishing Houses in Twitter is created from the number of people who "follow" the profile of a Publisher of Books on Twitter.


Notes: Up symbol when the publisher goes one or more positions in the Top 40. In parentheses, the number of followers of the previous edition.


- Top USA/UK/Canada and Australia in September:


#1: 122331 (83217) Penguin Books (UK) @PenguinBooks (Listed 3435)

#2: 90371 (61225) Penguin Group (USA) @penguinusa (Listed 2345)

#3: 84611 (57625) Random House @randomhouse (Listed 2856)

#4: 64691 (45590) Little, Brown and Co @littlebrown (Listed 2144)

#5: 44745 (29890): Alfred A. Knopf @AAKnopf (Listed 1302)

#6: 37581 (24256): Algonquin Books @AlgonquinBooks (Listed 919)

#7: 36760 (12777) Simon & Schuster @simonschuster (Listed 1891)

#8: 27797 (10875) Tor Books @torbooks (Listed 1347)

#9: 18841 (16833) Chronicle Books @ChronicleBooks (Listed 1530)

#10: 16646 (4065): Unbridled Books @unbridledbooks (Listed 539)


13866 (13244) Chelsea Green @chelseagreen (Listed 656)

11486 (8561): Scholastic @scholastic (Listed 1152)

10146 (9183): Excluded @ 10th December (Listed 753)

8455 (6629): Vintage Books (UK) @vintagebooks (Listed 767)


#15: 7979 (6397): Harlequin Books (Canada) @HarlequinBooks (Listed 713)


7790 (3120): Salt Publishing (UK) @saltpublishing (Listed 556)

7686 (6339): Bloomsbury (UK) @BloomsburyBooks (Listed 754)

7676 (6273): Penguin Books Australia @PenguinBooksAus (Listed 549)

7476 (6664) Grand Central Publishing @GrandCentralPub (Listed 675)


#20: 6205 (5290): Thomas Nelson, Inc. @ThomasNelson (Listed 474)


5969 (5339): Random House Canada @RandomHouseCA (Listed 505)

5808 (4773): Faber and Faber (UK) @FaberBooks (Listed 596)

5802 (4170): Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan) @FSG_Books (Listed 550)

5729 (4763): Orbit Books @orbitbooks (Listed 596)


#25: 5691 (4266): Vintage/Anchor @VintageAnchor (Listed 533)


5284 (3892): Workman Publishing @WorkmanPub (Listed 446)

5226 (4765): Sortis Publishing @SortisBooks (Listed 91)

5039 (3485): Harper Perennial @HarperPerennial (Listed 667)

4990 (4671): Scribner (Simon & Schuster) @ScribnerBooks (Listed 581)


#30: 4916 (4654): University of Toronto Press (Canada) @utpress (Listed 307)


4483 (3879): Pearson @Pearson (Listed 419)

4480 (4019): Penguin Group (Canada) @PenguinCanada (Listed 431)

4361 (3918): Random House Digital (UK) @RandomDigital (Listed 385)

4287 (3242): Tin House Books @Tin_House (Listed 394)


#35: 4216 (3372): Doubleday Publishing @doubledaypub (Listed 499)


4055 (3406): Pantheon Books @PantheonBooks (Listed 440)

3966 (3271): Coffee House Press @Coffee_House_ (Listed 312)

3902 (3294): Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster) @Pocket_Books (Listed 427)

3633 (3018): Canongate Books (UK) @canongatebooks (Listed 357)


#40: 3578 (2732): Melville House @melvillehouse (Listed 416)


3427 (2892): Transworld Books (Random House) (UK) @TransworldBooks (Listed 311)

3420 (3140): HarperCollinsCanada @HarperCollinsCa (Listed 376)

3340 (2888): HarperCollins (UK) @HarperCollinsUK (Listed 308)

3332 (2948): HarperCollins Australia @HarperBooksAus (Listed 311)


#45: 3309 (2968): Atria Books @AtriaBooks (Listed 268)


3207 (2250): Free Press @freepressbooks (Listed 352)

3201 (2809): Virgin Books (UK) @virginbooks (Listed 269)

2897 (2159): SterlingHouse Publisher @SterlingHouse (Listed 187)

2742 (1895): Tor.com @tordotcom (Listed 411)


#50: 2705 (1710): Scholastic UK @scholasticuk (Listed 232)


2666 (2331): Ebury Publishing (UK) @eburypublishing (Listed 268)

2590 (2210): Bloomsbury USA @BloomsburyUSA (Listed 271)

2278 (1993): Pan Macmillan (UK) @panmacmillan (Listed 250)

2081 (1876): House of Anansi Press (Canada) @HouseofAnansi (Listed 258)


#55: 1983 (1801): Folio Society @foliosociety (Listed 318) [last tweet: 5:35 PM Jul 22nd]


1977 (1682): PublicAffairs @public_affairs (Listed 162)

1926 (1768): Dzanc Books @DzancBooks (Listed 241)

1774 (1293): Harlequin Teen @HarlequinTeen (Listed 227)

1757 (1551): Heinemann Publishing @NewAtHeinemann (Listed 95)


#60: 1682 (1397): New Directions @NewDirections (Listed 155)


1537 (1183): Grove Atlantic, Inc @groveatlantic (Listed 170)

1515 (1174): Windmill Books (UK-Random House Group) @WindmillBooks (Listed 157)

1485 (1337): Amulet Books @AmuletBooks (Listed 132)

1421 (1204): ... (Canada) ... (Listed 174) Excluded @ 28th November


#65: 1380 (1044): It Books (HarperCollins Publishers) @youritlist (Listed 74)


1073 (807): Carlton Books (UK) @carltonbooks (Listed 79)

1024 (801): Simon & Schuster Australia @SimonSchusterAU (Listed 114)

1019 (911): ABRAMS @ABRAMSbooks (Listed 127)

377 (259): BL Publishing (UK) @BL_Shop (Listed 40)


#70: 361 (295): Cormorant Books (Canada) @cormorantbooks (Listed 53)


News:
1. The next edition will be in December 2010 (Top is held from 3 in 3 months, alternating with the Top Editoras no Twitter, Publishing Houses from Portugal and Brazil)

2. Out of the Top: [# = June]

#7: 16882 (15119): O'Reilly Media @OReillyMedia (Listed 1551) [not a true Publisher of Books]

#61: 1451 (1403): Touchstone Fireside (Simon and Schuster) @TFBooks (Listed 164) [Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!]

#72: 800 (698): Pluto Press @PlutoPress (Listed 75)

#73 532 (453): Atlantic Books (UK) @AtlanticBooks (Listed 55)

#74 405 (384): Atlas and Co. @AtlasAndCo (Listed 37)



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