I need to estimate the corporate book buying market in the UK. I need
the total corporate market value, ideally with the online sales broken
out. By this I mean sales of books to corporates entities, eg
libraries, universities. I do not mean books about business.

I also need market share of the corporate book market for companies
such as WH Smith and other specialist library suppliers.

Please provide names of those companies

<Library Market

Public libraries 2002/2003 ? £94 million
Table 2d also gives a breakdown of the type of book purchased.
Data is also given on the average price per book (page 32)
Expenditure on books is also broken down by region.
(Source: LISU Annual Library Statistics.)
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/lisu/downloads/als04-s2-p9-111.pdf

Academic libraries 2002/2003 ? £47.8 million
Old universities £27.5 million
New universities £15.1 million
HE colleges - £5.2 million
(Source: LISU Annual Library Statistics.)
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/lisu/downloads/als04-s3-p112-143.pdf

LISU Annual Library Statistics.
Loughborough produces library statistics on an annual basis. The 2003
and 2004 reports can be accessed here. (Source: LISU Annual Library
Statistics.)
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/lisu/pages/publications/als04.html#download

Publishers.org gives the following statistics about the libraries market:
2001/2002
National libraries £13 million
Public libraries £91 million
University & HE College Libraries £49 million
School library service £13 million

2001/2002
National libraries £11 million
Public libraries £89 million
University & HE College Libraries £48 million
School library service £12 million

Schools spending 2002/2003
Primary £92.3 million
Secondary £110 million

School library market 
2003 £35.4 million
2002 £40.4 million.

2003 School library market ? breakdown by type of school.
Nursery 0.6 million
Primary 18.1 million
Non-maintained mainstream 2.3 million
Special 0.4 million

2002 School library market ? breakdown by type of school.
Nursery £0.6 million
Primary £21 million
Non-maintained mainstream £ 2.5 million
Special £0.4 million
http://www.publishers.org.uk/paweb/paweb.nsf/0/345d390a4c9abbd180256f10002deafd/$FILE/UK%20Book%20Industry%20%20in%20Statistics%202003.pdf
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Industry reports
UK Book Publishing Market Research Report 2004.
Price Euro 880.00
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?report_id=53128

Book Retailing on the Internet Market Report 2004. Key Note
Publications Ltd. Price Euro 1,278.
According to this report 6% of books sold in the UK are sold online.
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?report_id=53065&t=e&cat_id=7

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The Booksellers Association has figures on the UK book market
including the annual sales of the major booksellers for 2002/2003 and
predictions for 2003/2004.

Book sellers market share 2003.
Waterstone?s 18%
WH Smith 17%
Borders 8%
Ottakar?s 7% (Source: Publishing News.)

http://www.booksellers.org.uk/industry/display_report.asp?id=215

Waterstone?s Books (Part of HMV Group Plc.)
200 stores in the UK with 40 on university campuses.
2004 sales $479.8 million
(Source: Hoover?s.com.)
http://www.hoovers.com/waterstone's/--ID__134932--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml

Waterstone?s annual reports.
http://www.hmvgroup.com/investors/annual.jsp

WH Smith sells to the retail market. It does not appear to be involved
in selling to the corporate sector.
http://www.whsmithplc.com/grp/company_2.htm
WH Smith annual report 2004.
http://www.whsmithplc.com/grp/annualreport2004.pdf
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Specialist library suppliers and market share.

The market share figures for the leading companies have been
calculated by comparing turnover figures to the total library market
in 2004 which is £177.2 million. No figures could be found for
turnover for Holt Jackson so the market share has been estimated based
on the fact that the company is ranked lower than the Cypher Group and
greater than BFS. Figures for the turnover for Holt Jackson probably
appear in this article from Bookseller but a subscription fee needs to
be paid to view the article.
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:BIY-L8EXiugJ:www.thebookseller.com/index.cfm%3Fpid%3D6+askews+turnover&hl=en

The three largest suppliers for public libraries in the UK are Askews
Library Services Limited, Cypher Group Ltd and the Holt Jackson Book
Company Limited.
(Source: Competition Commission.)
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:-cQ_HEZOS98J:www.competition-commission.org.uk/rep_pub/reports/2003/fulltext/476c4.pdf+%22cypher+group%22+uk+%22share+of%22&hl=en#8

Askews Library Services.
http://www.askews.co.uk/site/default_askews.asp

Askews 2004 turnover - £25.4 million. Market share works out at about 14%.
(Source: The Bookseller.com)
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:BIY-L8EXiugJ:www.thebookseller.com/index.cfm%3Fpid%3D6+askews+turnover&hl=en
Cypher Group
http://www.cyphergroup.com/

Cypher Group Sales for 2003/4 were £18.9 million. Market share works
out at about 11%.
(Source: Bertrams.com)
http://www.bertrams.com/News/news081104.htm

Holt Jackson
Market share ? an estimated 10%
http://www.holtjackson.co.uk/

This report also lists the following as leading suppliers of library books.
Books for Students Ltd
Farries and Madeline ? now Madeleine Lindley Ltd
(Source: Keynote)
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:W2e-Zo6mVL8J:library.clb.co.uk/common/keynote/sample_full_report/33015.pdf+%22holt+jackson%22+million&hl=en

Madeleine Lindley Ltd ? Market share estimated at about 8-10%.
http://www.madeleinelindley.com/default.aspx

Books for Students Ltd
http://www.bfs.co.uk/#
BFS turnover 1998 - £14.7 million. Market share about 8%.
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/university/press/121999/4.htm

This site lists the following library book suppliers:
Arts Bibliographic 
Askews
Blackwell?s Book Services
Brockhaus/German Books
Browns Books
Cambridge Medical Books
Coutts Library Services
Cypher Group
Everetts
Grant and Cutler
Heffers of Cambridge
Holt Jackson
Kent Book Company Ltd
Lambrick Enterprises
Lindsay & Howes
Narenda Publishing House
Oxbow Books
Peters Library Service
The Bookshop at Queens
John Smith & Son
Starkmann
http://www.bookweb.co.uk/libsupp/

This site lists the following library book suppliers
Adrians Medical Books
B.H. Blackwell
Books Education
Collins Library Supply
Crofthouse
Dawson Books
Delta Ltd
Everett & Son Ltd
Farries International
Hickman Marsh
Key Books (UK)
Library Book Services
Library Supply (International)
Linsay & Howes
London Info (Rowse Muir Ltd)
Regent Book Services
Smith & Ryan
STM Books
Starkmann Ltd
Swets Blackwall
Thomas Slatner
Waterstone Corporate & Library Sales.

http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-103937.html

Other companies.
Coutts
http://www.couttsinfo.com/en/about/aboutus.html

Crofthouse
http://www.crofthouse.co.uk/

Dawson books
http://www.dawsonbooks.co.uk/

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Online buying.

Keynote estimated that in 2000, the value of academic and professional
sales on the internet was £46.5 million and predicts that by 2002 this
will rise to 60 million. (Source: Jane Elliot. Bookseller.)
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:AOVAJygfhQsJ:www.thebookseller.com/gfx/pdfDownloads/pdfDownloadFree20.pdf+%22academic+books%22+%22purchased+online%22&hl=en

Online buying in the higher education market is just getting started. 
Higher Education E-Procurement (Heep) currently has 16 suppliers on
its system but none of these are booksellers. (Source: HEeP.)
http://www.heep.ac.uk/default.php?page_id=8

According to the annual report of The London Universities Purchasing
Consortium it is intended that a funding proposal to facilitate the
adoption of e-procurement will be submitted to the Proc-HE Management
Information and Systems Group. An e-tendering system is currently
being trialled by some LUPC members.
http://www.lupc.procureweb.ac.uk/about/annualreports/LUPC%20Report%20&%20Accounts%202003-04.pdf>

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<Additional links:>

<E4books. The Road to Universal e-commerce for the Book Industry.>
<http://www.bic.org.uk/report%20final%20sep%2004.pdf>

<Library purchasing consortia.>
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<In the UK there are 7 regional purchasing consortia for Universities.
Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium.>
<http://supc.procureweb.ac.uk/page1_5.jsp>

<London Universities Purchasing Consortium.>
<http://www.lupc.procureweb.ac.uk/>


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