Editorial Espasa is considered the cultural reference point of the Hispanic world. Its publishing activity includes the production of major works, narrative, essay, education, books for children and young people, biographies, practical books, books on bullfighting and dictionaries, as well as the works of the Real Academia Española.

Also forming part of Espasa is the bookstore chain Casa del Libro, a multi-purpose space offering all the services that revolve around reading.

The idea of publishing great Asian, African and, in short, non-Western literature inspired the creation of Bronce, which since it was founded has always included authors of international prestige in its catalogue.

The publishing label BackList was born in March 2008 with the aim of recovering publishing collections that were significant in their day and have now disappeared from bookshops. Through careful selection and quality editions, it offers readers the possibility of recovering crucial works forgotten by the market, but of indisputable literary quality.

MR Ediciones specialises in works on entertainment, health and inner knowledge, and also encompasses diverse genres such as novels, narratives and practical books.

Temas de Hoy is a leading publisher in social and political current affairs, history, women's issues, psychology, humour and essay.

At the end of 2001 Grupo Planeta was joined by Ediciones Minotauro, the indisputable reference point in science fiction and fantasy literature with titles in its collection such as El Señor de los Anillos, by J. R. R. Tolkien, and works by such renowned authors such as Ray Bradbury and Philip K. Dick.

Timunmas Narrativa became a part of Grupo Planeta in 2002. For over fifteen years this publisher has specialised in epics for young people (aged from 12 to 25 years). Its great collections Dragonlance, Reinos Olvidados and, more recently, Warhammer, Resident Evil and Magic, el Encuentro, constitute, for many young people, the route for their initiation into reading.

Libros Cúpula is the Grupo Planeta publishing label that focuses on the field of practical self-help, featuring illustrated books with a medium/high price tag that constitute basic reference works for each of the issues covered. The main Libros Cúpula collections are Hogar, Salud, Imagen, Modelismo, Esoterismo, Parenting, Hijos, Eros and Hobbies, among which its collection of photography books is outstanding.

Esencia is a new publishing company created in January 2007 and specialising in romantic novels. Esencia publishes women's literature written by and for women, and its founding vocation is to become a benchmark label within the romantic novel market. Its three main editorial lines are historical romance, contemporary romance and chick lit.

Infantil y Juvenil

The broad editorial offering of Grupo Planeta's Infantil y Juvenil Area ranges from works for preschoolers to titles for teenage readers, and has been reinforced with the creation of a catalogue of literature recommended for the schools channel.

Destino Infantil & Juvenil publishes illustrated albums and books of fiction for children and young people. It also awards the Destino Infantil Apel·les Mestres Prize for illustrated literature every year.

Planeta & Oxford was born in 2004 as the result of an agreement between Grupo Planeta and Oxford University Press to create a catalogue of recommended reading for an audience of schoolgoing children and teenagers.

Timun Mas, which was incorporated into Grupo Planeta in 2003, is a publishing company with a long tradition and great prestige in the world of children's books, with the enigmatic Teo as one of its most emblematic characters.

Planeta Junior publishes books under the most prominent licences from the national and international markets and has created new collections that include a broad range of products for children.

Yoyo offers little ones books with preschool activities that accomplish the aim of educating through entertainment and leisure.

Editorial Crítica is the cultural publisher of reference. Its offering ranges from philology to history and from philosophy to popular science, and it offers other subjects such as archaeology, anthropology, politics, economics and editions of the great classics of Spanish literature.

In the academic and professional sphere, Editorial Ariel aims to provide students with rigorous, clear works, and for the general public it publishes works of interest due to both their topicality and the fame of their authors, giving priority to Spanish authors although without excluding foreign titles.

Ediciones Paidós is the publisher specialising in psychology, philosophy, sociology, history and education. It has also developed new collections concentrating on other areas of knowledge, such as communication, cinema and image theory, political thought and other essay and non-fiction works. In many of these spheres, Paidós has consolidated its position, adapting constantly to the needs of the market, which has made it an inescapable reference in the sector.

Its offering of useful, reliable contents produced with maximum precision currently positions GeoPlaneta as the brand of reference in the tourist information market, with travel guides and cartography collections. GeoPlaneta also translates and adapts for the Spanish and Latin American market the prestigious Lonely Planet collection of travel guides, worldwide leader in this sector.

Booket, the new label for pocket editions, is committed to current works with an affordable price and a functional design. This means that authors who publish with the Grupo Planeta are within everyone's reach.

Destinolibro, with its pocket format editions, is one of the collections most used for reading among students of secondary and higher education.

In the pocket format line, Quinteto is the culmination of a major project to publish and market titles and authors from five prestigious independent Spanish publishers: Anagrama, Edhasa, Península/El Aleph, Salamandra and Tusquets.

Zenith was founded in 2005. It is a label whose editorial lines are committed to alternative spirituality, self-help, moral fables and historical mysteries and conspiracies. Its works offer information and accuracy.

Militaria is the first label completely specialising in novels about war and military history.

Grup 62 is a reference point in the Catalan publishing world. Its origins lie with Edicions 62, founded in 1962. The labels that form this Group are: Edicions 62, Catalan classics and universal classics in Catalan; Proa, Catalan novels and poetry; Columna Edicions, fiction and non-fiction in Catalan; Editorial Planeta, contemporary literature; Destino, narrative and essay; Editorial Empúries, contemporary literature, poetry and essay; Timun Mas, children's books for learning; Destino Infantil & Juvenil, fun books for young readers; labutxaca, pocket books; Art 62, graphic works by the most representative artists of Catalan art; Mina, non-fictional works on issues of personal and social interest and cookery; Pòrtic, books of essays co-published with institutions; Sagarmata, works on spirituality; Salsa Books, cookery books; El Aleph Editores, contemporary and classical fiction; Ediciones Península, essays and works on current affairs; Luciérnaga, texts on spirituality and personal growth, and Talismán, original romantic works. At the end of last year, Grup 62, together with Planeta DeAgostini, inaugurated Comic Books, which covers comics and graphic novels.

From the very early days Planeta was committed to the international dissemination of books. Today it owns the most solid publishing network in Latin America and Portugal. Examples of this are Editorial Planeta itself in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil and Peru; Emecé Editores in Argentina, Joaquín Mortiz in Mexico and Editora Academia de Inteligência in Brazil; each and every one of them maintaining their own distinct editorial personality and publishing the best authors from their own country. And to ensure this activity enjoys good distribution, Grupo Planeta has an export department that guarantees that its publishing collection reaches the remaining countries of the world.

Editis became part of Grupo Planeta in May 2008. With around twenty publishers and forty prestige labels, a solid position in literature and education and an acknowledged distribution force, today Editis is France's second largest publishing group and among the most important in Europe's book sector. The companies that form Editis are:

Place des éditeurs, which brings together eleven publishing companies and distributes over ten million works per year. It is one of the main players in foreign literature publishing.

Groupe Robert Laffont, an acknowledged publisher in the general literature sphere. It is made up of four publishing companies: Robert Laffont, NiL, Julliard and Seghers, which encompass different literary genres. The group publishes around two hundred new releases each year and manages a publishing collection of 4,500 works.

Éditions First and Éditions First Interactive, whose main editorial lines are essays and documents, fictional works, practical books and books on information technology.

Gründ, which has the largest offering of quality works.

XO Éditions, which publishes novels, autobiographies and short stories.

OH! Éditions, specialising in essays and documents, eye-witness accounts and temporary novels.

The production of Plon is highly diversified, given that this publisher produces both fictional works and historical novels and even thrillers.

Perrin is the publisher for history enthusiasts. It publishes history, economics, politics, society, geopolitics, essays, documents, biographies, illustrated books, dictionaries and encyclopaedias.

Presses de la Renaissance is a general literature publisher that also stands among the leaders in the field of spirituality.

Le Cherche Midi Éditeur publishes in six major spheres, which are documents, literature, poetry, humour, practical books and illustrated works.

Essays and non-fiction are one of the strong points of La Découverte.

Univers Poche encompasses five labels with complementary publishing lines. Its catalogues cover all literary genres, from fiction to non-fiction.

Nathan accompanies the evolution of French society and the innovations of the education system. It occupies a position of leadership and is present at all ages and in nearly all school disciplines.

Bordas is a key label in the world of publishing for schools and also extra-curricular works and works of reference in the fields of literature and history.

Retz is a reference label in subjects such as educational innovation and self-help.

CLE International is the worldwide leader in textbooks for teaching French as a foreign language.

Le Robert currently offers a comprehensive line of school, bilingual, cultural and thematic dictionaries and dictionaries to aid writing.

The De Boeck group is made up of six publishing companies. It is one of the main reference points of the publishing sector in Belgium. It works in three editorial spheres: books for schools (61 percent Flemish language), for universities (87 percent French language) and legal books (74 percent French language).

Paraschool is a web company specialising in the creation of interactive contents and it stands out in two main activities: professional training and school support.

And, finally, Interforum, a very important company in book distribution in France, offers its customers a comprehensive dissemination and distribution service.