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Top 25 Book distributors based in France
RevenueBase identified 101 book distributors headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 1,611 professional contacts across them, including 337 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers book distributors headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 15, 2026.
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The 25 largest book distributors based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 298 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Groupe Eyrolles occupe une position privilégiée sur le marché français du livre professionnel et technique.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 164 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ALKOR est un Groupe Coopératif de Distributeurs spécialistes en Papeterie, Fournitures aux Entreprises, Fournitures Scolaires et Petite Enfance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 25 ans, LDE s’engage avec l’ensemble de ses partenaires publics et privés, pour faire avancer l’école.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondé en 1907 à lyon, notre enseigne est le 1er groupe-libraire indépendant multi-enseignes présent sur l'ensemble des canaux de distribution du livre, sous tous ses formats : 11…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Acteur majeur de la distribution presse depuis 1945, MLP accompagne les éditeurs dans la diffusion de plus de parutions presse auprès de plus de points de vente et marchands de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Beaucoup disent que le DVD est mort… Pourtant, chez Arcadès, nous prouvons chaque jour que les supports vidéo physiques ont encore de très beaux jours devant eux.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La « SOFEDIS » ou Société Française d’Edition et de Distribution est une filiale du groupe Gallimard.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 1995, Librairie eMLS s'est imposée dans le domaine de la distribution de livres scolaires.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Diffuseur et distributeur au service des professionnels du livre et bien plus encore.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Entreprise des EdTech portée par des éditeurs majeurs du monde scolaire : Magnard Delagrave et Belin Education (groupe Albin Michel).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sauramps, librairie incontournable à Montpellier, est l’une des plus anciennes librairies de France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avec plus de références de livres, coffrets et jeux, SDP MAXILIVRES est le n°1 du livre neuf à prix réduit en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Distribution au Pays Basque, dans les Landes et en Gironde de - presse quotidienne- magazines- livres- jeux et jouets- loisirs créatifs- papeterie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le comptoir du Livre, c'est depuis 50 ans un diffuseur indépendant au service de plus de 5500 libraires, maisons de presse et G.M.S dans toute la France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Situated in the heart of Paris, staffed by a team of 47 dedicated professionals, and boasting contacts with more than French and francophone publishers, Amalivre supplies…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SoBook Facilitateur d'Edition - Depuis 2009, SoBook est devenu la référence en impression à la demande.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TABULEO est une start-up spécialisée dans la distribution de contenus numériques scolaires (manuels, apps, plateformes d’apprentissages, ebooks, …).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PRAXIEL is a publishing company based out of 5 PLACE DU COLONEL FABIEN, PARIS, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “À la fois distributeur numérique et concepteur de librairies en ligne, immatériel.fr se donne pour mission de faciliter la diffusion d'œuvres numériques sur tous supports et à…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Appartenant au groupe Fnac Darty, la Société Française du Livre propose un ensemble d'outils et de services dédiés et adaptés aux librairies, bibliothèques et collectivités.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Les Éditions Sud Ouest ont été fondées en 1988.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For players in the cultural and entertainment market in France, can be a real headache!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Interart est une société de diffusion et distribution spécialisée dans les livres d’art, photographie, mode, architecture, design et graphisme.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MAGELLAN & CIE is a publishing company based out of 34 RUE RAMEY, Paris, Îledefrance, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: book distributors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names book distributors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of book distributors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name book distributors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Book distributors based in France at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 101 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among book distributors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “book distributors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names book distributors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among book distributors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 337 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 15, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Book distributors by metro
- Book distributors in Paris31
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names book distributors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many book distributors are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 101 book distributors headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Eyrolles, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most book distributors?
Paris leads with 31 headquartered companies, followed by Bordeaux (2) and Ivry-Sur-Seine (2).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 15, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.