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Top 25 Book publishers based in Italy
RevenueBase identified 421 book publishers headquartered in Italy as of September 2026 and tracks 4,825 professional contacts across them, including 718 with verified work emails. Roma is the largest hub.
This list covers book publishers headquartered in Italy, 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 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest book publishers based in Italy
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 373 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Editoriale Domus was founded in Milan by Gianni Mazzocchi in 1929.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 345 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “De Agostini Editore S.p.A, 100% owned by De Agostini S.p.A, is responsible for the co-ordination and strategic management of all the Group’s operating companies in the publishing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sulle più innovative macchine di stampa e legatoria dei nostri 6 siti produttivi passa di tutto: ci saranno stati anche il libro che hai sul comodino, il fumetto di Diabolik o di…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondata nel 1969, la Newton Compton è una realtà di spicco nell'editoria indipendente.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GeMS, Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol Spa, is part of Messaggerie Italiane Spa, a leading player in the book industry since 1914 with revenue of €492,8 million in 2016.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Giunti Editore, storica casa editrice fiorentina – erede di una lunga tradizione editoriale che ha inizio nel 1841 con la fondazione della tipografia e libreria editrice Paggi – è…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The publishing house of many distinguished authors both in fiction and non-fiction.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondata nel 1862 a Firenze, è tra le più antiche case editrici italiane tuttora in attività.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nel 1948 la SilvanaEditoriale d’Arte viene costituita come casa editrice autonoma: sin dagli esordi, la sua attività si è indirizzata al settore dei libri d’arte, instaurando…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La nostra storia ha inizio il 10 maggio 1901, quando con una lettera circolare Giovanni Laterza (1873-1943) annuncia la nascita della Casa Editrice Gius.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Marsilio Editori è una casa editrice di narrativa, saggistica e libri illustrati: ha sede a Venezia, è guidata dalla famiglia De Michelis e oggi fa parte del gruppo Feltrinelli.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “De Agostini Libri è una joint venture paritetica tra De Agostini Editore e Mondadori Libri.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HarperCollins Italia è la divisione italiana di HarperCollins Publishers, una delle più grandi e prestigiose case editrici a livello globale, presente sul mercato da oltre…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A più di sessant’anni della sua creazione, il progetto del Saggiatore si delinea come il tentativo di creare, nelle parole dell’editore Luca Formenton, «una costellazione di…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La nostra casa editrice, fondata nel 1994 a Milano, prende il nome dallo street paper Terre di mezzo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “White Star is an Italian-based publishing house focusing on illustrated books for adults and kids.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Editoria in generale ed in particolare la pubblicazione, produzione e coedizione di libri, cataloghi, periodici, riviste (esclusi i quotidiani) e stampati in genere, la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La casa editrice nasce a Roma nel '94, quando Elido Fazi, rientrato a Roma dopo una lunga permanenza a Londra come manager dell'Economist, decide di dare vita alla sua aspirazione…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Raffaello Cortina Editore è nata nel 1980 e si è imposta inizialmente sul mercato pubblicando testi legati a tematiche psicologiche.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Edimill è una società di servizi per l’editoria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Baldini+Castoldi è una casa editrice italiana con sede a Milano.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Publishing house” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Associazione Italiana Editori è l’associazione di categoria, aderente a Confindustria, degli editori italiani – e di quelli stranieri attivi in Italia – di libri, riviste…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nata nel 1980 per iniziativa di Giovanni Carocci, la casa editrice si è ben presto affermata nel panorama italiano come una delle principali university press per il rigore delle…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Tribuna opera nel settore dell'editoria professionale dal 1954 e fin dai primi anni sessanta si specializza nella pubblicazione di libri e riviste giuridiche.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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 publishers. 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 publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of book publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name book publishers. 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 publishers based in Italy at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Italy, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Italy, over 421 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 publishers, 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 Italy whose own description of what they do matches “book publishers”. 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 publishers), 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 publishers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Italy 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, 718 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 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Book publishers by metro
- Book publishers in Roma49
- Book publishers in Milano Mi32
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 publishers, 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 publishers are there based in Italy?
RevenueBase identified 421 book publishers headquartered in Italy 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?
Editoriale Domus S.P.A, headquartered in Rozzano, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most book publishers?
Roma leads with 49 headquartered companies, followed by Milano Mi (32) and Milano (22).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 718 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 421 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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