Complete list of ELT publishers 4th draft

I investigated this for a workshop I gave and all the lists online seem to be out of date, so here are all the ones I could find divided by size/ influence.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 on any post (as I can’t work out how to reopen the comments below).

Large ELT publishers

Cambridge English

https://www.cambridge.org/gb/cambridgeenglish – LINK UPDATED

Macmillan English

http://www.macmillanenglish.com

Oxford University Press English Language Teaching

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

Pearson Languages (including Longman and Penguin)

https://www.pearson.com/languages/ – LINK UPDATED

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

Macmillan LanguageHouse (Japan)

(don’t seem to have a website anymore, but there might be a Twitter account and/ or Facebook page)

Smaller ELT parts of large or largish publishers

Barrons

https://www.barronseduc.com/ (don’t seem to have a specific ELT page anymore)

McGraw-Hill ELT (but site no longer has ELT section…)

http://www.mheducation.com/

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

https://eltngl.com/ – LINK UPDATED

Collins ELT

https://collins.co.uk/pages/elt – LINK UPDATED

Scholastic ELT (especially readers)

https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/elt

Black Cat readers (readers in many languages)

https://www.blackcat-cideb.com/en/

Wiley English as a Second Language titles

https://www.wiley.com/en-sg//Subjects-c-FL70 (don’t seem to have an ESL main page anymore)

Kaplan Publishing (ESOL stuff seems to be only TOEFL)

https://www.kaptest.com/toefl

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

https://www.helbling.com/int/en – LINK UPDATED

Garnet Education

http://www.garneteducation.com/

ABAX

https://www.abax.co.jp/ – LINK UPDATED

theround (e-books only)

http://the-round.com/

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

https://pavpub.com/pavilion-elt – LINK UPDATED

Mainly or entirely academic publishers

Michigan English Language Teaching

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

Routledge Language and Linguistics

https://www.routledge.com/language-literature/language-linguistics?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItOT6hKasgAMVQAp7Bx0GwgTGEAAYASAAEgJXr_D_BwE – LINK FIXED

Multilingual Matters

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

Taylor and Francis ESL and Applied Linguistics Professional Series

(apparently all now moved to Routledge)

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

Alphabet Publishing Books

https://www.alphabetpublishingbooks.com/ – NEW LINK

Wayzgoose Press

https://wayzgoosepress.com/ – NEW LINK

Prosperity Education

https://www.prosperityeducation.net/ – NEW LINK

MM Publications

https://www.mmpublications.com/ – LINK UPDATED

Global ELT (exam materials)

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

Language Solutions

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

Alta Book Centre Publishers

(seems to have disappeared)

ELB Publishing

(seems to have disappeared)

Pro Lingua Learning

https://www.prolingualearning.com/ – LINK UPDATED

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

http://www.apricot-plaza.co.jp/en/index.html

Compass Publishing (Korea, Japan and Taiwan)

https://www.compasspub.com/eng/compass/buy_off.asp?sch_kind=&sch_value=&sch_area=&sch_country=&h_page=2 – LINK UPDATED

WorldCom EFL Books (Korea)

https://worldcomedu.com/worldcom-edu-books/worldcom-edu-books-4/?ckattempt=1 – LINK UPDATED

RIC Publications EFL, TEFL and LOTE

https://www.ricpublications.com.au/english/ – LINK UPDATED

Athelstan

https://www.athel.com/ – LINK UPDATED

EFL publishers that only focus on one country

EFL Press (Japan)

http://www.eflpress.com/

Ernst Klett Verlag (Germany – ditto)

http://www.klett.de/

Ones I know nothing about, not even the size

iTDi Publishing

https://www.itdi.pro/community/publishing/ – NEW LINK

University of Daytona Publishing ELT

https://www.udpglobal.com/catalog/elt – NEW LINK

Prime Press

https://primepress.com/categories/english-courses/ – NEW LINK

Hodder Education English

https://www.hoddereducation.co.uk/english – NEW LINK

Kinney Brother’s Publishing

https://www.kinneybrothers.com/ – NEW LINK

ELI Graded Readers

https://www.eligradedreaders.com/ – NEW LINK

Grivas Publications

https://www.grivas.gr/ – NEW LINK

TESOL Bookstore

https://www.tesol.org/professional-development/publications-and-research/tesol-publications/ – LINK UPDATED

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)

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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Updated 26 July 2023