Edward Elgar Publishing

In 2026, coinciding with the company's 40th anniversary celebrations, Edward Elgar Publishing won the Clarivate Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year award for the fourth time at the Independent Publishers Guild annual awards in London. The judges highlighted "great commissioning and investment in systems and staff, an approach to lower-income countries that makes content as accessible as possible and superb service to customers and authors". In 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing received the CPI Independent Publisher of the Year and ProQuest Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year awards at the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) Awards, the second time they have been given the overall award. The judges commented that the publisher cemented its reputation for excellent care of staff, authors and customers alike... “Edward Elgar combines longevity with constant innovation: they never rest on what they have achieved and always strive to stay the best in their field. The growth is exceptional for a mature business, and there’s a holistic strategy that works… it’s a special business.” In 2017, Edward Elgar Publishing was awarded the prestigious Fox Williams Independent Publisher of the Year Award at the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) Awards. As a "resolutely forward-looking business", expanding into law publishing and building digital platform Elgaronline, the judges praised EEP for "punching way above its weight despite competition from far larger operators". "Edward Elgar produced an outstanding performance in a difficult market in 2016," the judges said. "It is a very well run and profitable company with excellent partnerships, great author care and consistently superb customer service." At the same awards ceremony, EEP was also awarded the ProQuest Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year Award 2017. This brings the tally of major awards received in the last four years to six. In 2015, the firm was nominated for three awards at the Independent Publishing Awards and won the Digital Publishing Award for their www.ElgarOnline.com online ebook and journal content platform. The judges cited the "excellent site design and back-end technology" and also applauded the way it provided free content to libraries in poorer countries: "That is sensible, creditable and important." In March 2015 Edward Elgar Publishing was also shortlisted by The Bookseller for the Independent Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year Award to be presented at Awards dinner in May 2015. The Bookseller said Elgar was "trying for an unprecedented third win on the trot". The Bookseller has been the leading British business magazine for the book industry since 1858. In 2014, Edward Elgar Publishing won the award for Independent Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year at the annual industry awards hosted by The Bookseller in London. In the same year the company won the Frankfurt Book Fair Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year award at the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) awards. The Bookseller noted the publisher's "renowned author care and entrepreneurial approach", while the IPG reported that "Edward Elgar is incredibly professional, responsive and imaginative. It is a great example of how a relatively small publisher can be at least as innovative as those many times its size". Edward Elgar Publishing had previous won the Bookseller award in 2013. At that time the award was given for "achieving record sales in a tough market, launching digital platform Elgaronline and for its "high-class editorial, design and production". The company was also shortlisted by the IPG in 2013 and 2012. In 2013 the IPG cited "growing sales and high quality publishing.... Epitomising the agility of an owner-run business, it consolidated its position as a leader in its field and pushed on with innovative products", The Bookseller cited the firm's "big investment in a new Elgaronline platform" A 2012 working paper claimed that Elgar was the most cited publisher in Management, second most cited in Law, fourth in Economics/ Business and sixth in Political Science and International Relations in the Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index. Other Rankings of academic publishers include Edward Elgar Publishing as a leading publisher, including the Australian Political Science rankings (Ranked as A) and the Granada ranking (Top 10).