privately held founded 1948 ; 68 years ago 1948 founder georg von holtzbrinck country of origin germany headquarters location stuttgart distribution worldwide publication types books newspapers academic journals magazines imprints many owner s monika schoeller stefan von holtzbrinck 1 official website holtzbrinck.com holtzbrinck publishing group is a privately held stuttgart based company which owns publishing companies worldwide . the company has published a wide variety of books from the satanic verses by salman rushdie to classics by agatha christie jean paul sartre ernest hemingway and john updike . other well known publications of the company include the scientific journal nature and scientific american . it is one of the big five english language publishing companies . in 2015 it merged most of its macmillan science and education unit including nature publishing group with springer science business media creating the company springer nature . holtzbrinck now owns 53 % of the combined company . 2 3 contents 1 history 1.1 subsidiaries and imprints 2 see also 3 notes and references 4 external links history edit established by georg von holtzbrinck in 1948 the group first began as a german book club . in the 1960s it purchased droemer kindler rowohlt and s. fischer verlag two german publishing companies . in 1985 it acquired the retail book division of holt rinehart and winston naming it the henry holt book company . one year later the company acquired scientific american magazine for 52.6 million . in 1994 it purchased a majority interest in farrar straus & giroux from retiring roger w. straus jr. a year later it purchased a 70 % majority interest in the macmillan group and then the remaining shares in 1999 . in march 2006 holtzbrinck forced tor books which is owned by holtzbrinck to stop making its books available as e books via baen ebooks because of concerns regarding the lack of digital rights management drm . the policy was later changed and tor titles became available as drm free e books in 2012 . the tor uk label in britain and hence the eu does the same . the company also received a good deal of attention when it bought the then leading german social networking platform studivz in january 2007 . holtzbrinck has total annual sales of 2.1 billion euros as of 2005 ; 49 % of sales are in germany and 23 % in north america . it had 2005 earnings before taxes of 142 million euros and a total of 14 000 employees . chairman of the group is stefan von holtzbrinck . john sargent is ceo of macmillan the company that unites the us based businesses of the group . 4 subsidiaries and imprints edit german newspaper die zeit in newsstand in germany s. fischer verlag o.w. barth wolfgang kr ger argon verlag de scherz verlag de fretz & wasmuth rowohlt verlag kiepenheuer & witsch 85 % verlagsgruppe droemer knaur 50 % verlag j. b. metzler de die zeit 50 % in the united states using the macmillan name farrar straus and giroux faber & faber henry holt and company holt paperbacks metropolitan books times books owl books palgrave macmillan picador roaring brook press neal porter books first second books st. martin s press tom doherty associates tor books forge books bedford freeman and worth publishing group w.h. freeman bedford st. martin s worth publishers hayden mcneil nature publishing group scientific american inc. in the united kingdom macmillan publishers palgrave macmillan pan macmillan macmillan pan books picador macmillan children s books campbell books priddy books boxtree sidgwick & jackson nature publishing group macmillan education in india macmillan publishers india ltd. mps limited content and technology service provider 5 see also edit the big five english language book publishers simon & schuster penguin random house harpercollins macmillan publishers and hachette springer nature notes and references edit verlagsgruppe georg von holtzbrinck . management . verlagsgruppe georg von holtzbrinck . retrieved 1 april 2013 . bray chad 15 january 2015 . publisher of nature and scientific american to form joint venture . the new york times . retrieved 14 january 2016 . carpenter caroline 6 may 2015 . completed merger forms springer nature . the bookseller . retrieved 2016 01 14 . book view publishing trends april 2006 mps publishing solutions about us . macmillanpublishingsolutions.com . retrieved 2013 02 17 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to verlagsgruppe georg von holtzbrinck . official website mary h. munroe 2004 . holtzbrinck timeline . the academic publishing industry a story of merger and acquisition via northern illinois university . v t e holtzbrinck publishing group holtzbrinck publishers s. fischer rowohlt kiepenheuer & witsch 85 % droemer knaur 50 % newspapers and magazines die zeit 50 % zeit wissen main post lausitzer rundschau main post saarbr cker zeitung s dkurier trierischer volksfreund spotlight verlag lebensmittel praxis verlag prognos macmillan united states trade farrar straus and giroux first second henry holt macmillan audio picador quick and dirty tips st. martin s press tor forge education bedford st. martin s w. h. freeman worth publishers i clicker hayden mcneil children s fsg books for young readers feiwel and friends holt books for young readers kingfisher roaring brook priddy square fish united kingdom pan macmillan macmillan pan picador tor macmillan children s books campbell young picador sidgwick & jackson mantle macmillan audio books macmillan new writing palgrave macmillan british politics contemporary political theory european journal of information systems european political science international abstracts in operations research journal of international business studies journal of the operational research society journal of public health policy journal of simulation knowledge management research & practice or insight pink book social trends the statesman s yearbook macmillan education gill & macmillan nature publishing group nature nature nature biotechnology nature cell biology nature chemical biology nature communications nature genetics nature geoscience nature immunology nature materials nature medicine nature methods nature microbiology nature nanotechnology nature neuroscience nature photonics nature physics nature chemistry nature structural & molecular biology nature reviews life sciences nature reviews cancer nature reviews drug discovery nature reviews genetics nature reviews immunology nature reviews microbiology nature reviews molecular cell biology nature reviews neuroscience nature reviews clinical sciences nature reviews cardiology nature reviews clinical oncology nature reviews disease primers nature reviews endocrinology nature reviews gastroenterology & hepatology nature reviews nephrology nature reviews neurology nature reviews rheumatology nature reviews urology nature international nature china nature india nature arabic edition other journals the american journal of gastroenterology bdj team british dental journal british journal of cancer cell research european journal of human genetics heredity journal of investigative dermatology neuropsychopharmacology oncogene scientific reports scientific american scientific american scientific american mind v t e the big five publishers in the united states penguin random house penguin dutton puffin riverhead viking signet putnam ace dorling kindersley penguin classics random house alfred a. knopf doubleday crown bantam ballantine del rey dell everyman s library pantheon vintage fodor s modern library dial addison wesley simon & schuster atria scribner atheneum free press poseidon pocket threshold harpercollins walden pond harlequin reganbooks harper prism harper perennial harper ecco macmillan farrar straus and giroux henry holt and company picador st. martin s press tor pan nature publishing group palgrave macmillan hachette little brown & company grand central publishing orbit yen center street list of english language 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