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As of 2018, ten firms in Germany rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: C.H. Beck, Bertelsmann, Cornelsen Verlag, Haufe-Gruppe , Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Ernst Klett Verlag , Springer Nature, Thieme, WEKA Holding , and Westermann Druck- und Verlagsgruppe.[1][note 1] Overall, "Germany has some 2,000 publishing houses, and more than 90,000 titles reach the public each year, a production surpassed only by the United States."[4] Unlike many other countries, "book publishing is not centered in a single city but is concentrated fairly evenly in Berlin, Hamburg, and the regional metropolises of Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Munich."[4]
In the 1450s in Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg printed a Bible using movable metal type, a technique that quickly spread to other German towns and throughout Europe.[5]
In the 1930s Nazis conducted book burnings.
German publishers issued around 61,000 book titles in 1990, and around 83,000 in 2000.[6]
Recent historians of the book in Germany include Bernhard Fabian[7]
and Paul Raabe .The influential Frankfurt Book Fair began in 1454, and the Leipzig Book Fair in 1632.
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Outside of Germany, collections of German books include those stored in the UK at the British Library[8] and London Library;[9] in the US at Harvard University[10] and Yale University.[11]
In 2006 a temporary sculpture about German book history was installed at Bebelplatz in Berlin as part of the Walk of Ideas.