Complete list of ELT publishers 3rd draft

I’ve been investigating this for a workshop I’m giving and all the lists online seem to be out of date, so here are all the ones I could find divided by size/ influence. If I’ve wrongly classified any or if you know of any others, however small and/ or local, please let me know by email or in comments below:

Large ELT publishers

Cambridge English


http://www.cambridge.org/gb/elt/?site_locale=en_GB

Macmillan English


http://www.macmillanenglish.com

Oxford University Press English Language Teaching


http://elt.oup.com/?cc=gb&selLanguage=en&mode=hub

Pearson ELT (including Longman and Penguin)


http://www.pearsonelt.com/

Local parts of big ELT publishers (also publishing their own titles)

Macmillan LanguageHouse (Japan)


http://www.mlh.co.jp/?la=en&&openedtag=0

Smaller ELT parts of large or largish publishers

Barrons English Language Arts


http://www.barronseduc.com/english-language-arts.html

McGraw-Hill ELT


http://www.elt.mcgraw-hill.com/m/index.shtml

National Geographic Learning (part of Cengage, now seemingly incorporating Heinle ELT – which itself took over LTP - and Summertown Publishing)


http://ngl.cengage.com/search/showresults.do?N=185+429491853

Collins ELT


http://www.collinslanguage.com/collins-elt-learners-of-english

Scholastic ELT (books for kids, especially readers)


http://www.scholastic.com/elt/index.htm

Black Cat readers (readers in many languages)


http://www.blackcat-cideb.com/

Wiley English as a Second Language titles


http://as.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-350768.html

Kaplan Publishing


http://store.kaptest.com/catalog/publishing/index.jhtml?CATID=T00070000

Books by organisations better known for TEFL magazines

It’s Magazines


http://www.its-open.com/

Pavilion Publishing (publisher of Modern English Teacher and English Teaching Professional magazines)


https://www.pavpub.com/s-38-books.aspx?s=1

Medium-sized ELT publishers

Richmond (formerly Richmond Publishing, part of large Spanish publisher Santillana)


http://www.richmondelt.com/

Express Publishing


http://www.expresspublishing.co.uk/

Small but influential ELT publishers

DELTA Publishing


http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/

Helbling Languages


http://www.helblinglanguages.com/

Garnet Education


http://www.garneteducation.com/

ABAX


http://www.abax.net/

theround (e-books only)


http://the-round.com/

Mainly or entirely academic publishers

Michigan English Language Teaching


http://www.press.umich.edu/elt

Routledge English Language Learning


http://www.routledge.com/languages/english/

Multilingual Matters


http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Taylor and Francis ESL and Applied Linguistics Professional Series


http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/series/LEAESLALP/

Smaller ELT publishers that I don’t know the influence of

MM Publications


http://www.mmpi.co.uk/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx

Global ELT (exam materials)


http://www.globalelt.co.uk/

Language Solutions


http://www.languagesolutionsinc.com/grfs/

Alta Book Centre Publishers


http://www.altaesl.com/index.cfm

ELB Publishing


http://www.elbpublishing.co.uk/

Pro Lingua Associates


http://www.prolinguaassociates.com/

Apricot (Japan-based publisher of materials for primary and pre-school, including fabulous picture books)


http://www.apricot-plaza.co.jp/e/e_index.php

Compass Publishing (Korea, Japan and Taiwan)


http://www.compasspub.com/english/main.asp

WorldCom EFL Books (Korea)


http://www.wcbooks.co.kr/

RIC Publications EFL, TEFL and LOTE


http://www.ricgroup.com.au/categories/esl-tefl-tote/

Athelstan


http://athel.com/index.php

Learners Publishing (China)


http://www.learners.com.sg/product.aspx?cid=1

Graphi ELT Publishing


http://www.graphi.gr/

EFL publishers that only focus on one country

EFL Press (Japan)


http://www.eflpress.com/

Cornelsen Verlag (Germany)


http://www.cornelsen.de/home/

Ernst Klett Verlag (Germany)


http://www.klett.de/

Ones I know nothing about, not even the size

TESOL Bookstore


http://www.tesol.org/read-and-publish

ELT publishers that were taken over (see above for more details on the publishers who took them over)

NorthStar ELT – Bought out by Collins, part of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Harper Collins

LTP – Taken over by Heinle, who were taken over by Cengage, who seem to be rebranding their ELT stuff as National Geographic Learning

Peter Collin Publishing – Taken over by Blackwell, who now seem to be called Wiley

Summertown – Taken over by Cengage (see above), but catalogue still here:


http://www.summertown.co.uk/default.asp?V_SITE_ID=1

Heinle ELT – see above

Marshall Cavendish – ditto

Defunct ELT publishers (in case you are still looking for them)

Chancerel International Publishers

Georgian Press

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6 Responses to Complete list of ELT publishers 3rd draft

  1. Please do add the wonderful Vermonters at http://www.prolinguaassociates.com/

  2. alexcase says:

    Thanks. Just added to the much expanded 2nd draft.

  3. alexcase says:

    About 6 more added to the third draft. Keep feedback coming!

  4. alexcase says:

    Two more to add:
    Kinney Brothers publishing
    mpi (Taiwan)

  5. alexcase says:

    Somehow forgot Brookemead, who have been nominated for an ELTON:
    http://www.brookemead-elt.co.uk

  6. alexcase says:

    Also ELI Readers, Easy Readers, and World-Wide Readers

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