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Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck practically wrote the book on German publishing houses. The company has expanded beyond the borders of Germany to make its presence known worldwide. Its publications include fiction and non-fiction books by such authors as Salman Rushdie and Tom Wolfe, as well as works in the areas of education, science, business, and finance. The firn also has newspaper and Web holdings. Many of its US assets operate through Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings subsidiary, which does business as Macmillan. The company also operates the London-based Macmillan Publishers Limited. The family of founder Georg von Holtzbrinck (including executive chairman Stefan von Holtzbrinck) owns the company.

Virgin Books is a subsidiary of entertainment giant Virgin Group. Virgin Books is quickly becoming relatively experienced in the publishing industry. Following a merger with publisher WH Allen, the company was created in its current state in 1991. Genres include crime, lifestyle, music, sport, business, film, reference, crime, and erotica, among others. Virgin Books publishes more than 200 new titles and reprints more tha 400 previously existing titles each year and distributes them at WHSmith, Waterstone's, Books Etc., Borders, and others.

Brits who want to "XL" in business should get to know Vitesse Media, publisher of "Business XL" and other UK magazines and Web sites primarily for entrepreneurs and investors. "Business XL" targets CEOs of growing companies. The media firm also publishes such titles as "Growth Company Investor" (focusing on fast-growing public companies), Information Age (a monthly technology magazine), and M&A Magazine (information on mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs). Vitesse Media's Web sites target investors and small and growing businesses. Vitesse Media PLC company also sponsors and produces events, including business awards, seminars, and exhibitions. Each month, Vitesse Media reaches an audience of approximately 450,000 people.

Maney delivers personalised service to authors, societies, readers and libraries for the publishing and international dissemination of high quality, peer-reviewed scholarship and research. Specialising in print and electronic journal publishing, Maney is committed to technical and editorial innovation combined with traditional values of quality and collaboration. Maney Publishing is an independent publishing company specialising in academic journals in materials science and engineering, the humanities, and health science. Maney is committed to publishing high quality journals in print and electronic formats that are international in scope and peer-reviewed. With offices in Leeds and London in the UK, and in Boston and Philadelphia in North America, Maney publishes extensively for learned societies, universities and professional bodies around the world.

W.W. Norton has published the works of authors ranging from Sigmund Freud and Henry David Thoreau to Paul Krugman (economics) and Fareed Zakaria (foreign affairs). The employee-owned company also owns book publisher Countryman Press and its Berkshire House Publishers, and serves as a distributor for about 20 smaller publishers, such as Fantagraphics Books, Atlas & Co., and Persea Books. Anyone who ever lugged around one of W.W. Norton's literary anthologies knows that this company isn't really into light reading. But its publishing activities go beyond hefty college textbooks to include general-interest (fiction, history, biography) and professional (psychotherapy, architecture and design) books.

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