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Top 18 Book publishers based in Portugal

RevenueBase identified 64 book publishers headquartered in Portugal as of September 2026 and tracks 1,754 professional contacts across them, including 346 with verified work emails. Lisboa is the largest hub.

This list covers book publishers headquartered in Portugal, 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.

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The 18 largest book publishers based in Portugal

Ranked by team size
Top 18 of 64 book publishers based in Portugal, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to book publishers: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidencePorto, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000713 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Com um catálogo extremamente diversificado, abrangendo as áreas da Educação, Referência e Literatura (ficção, não ficção, infantojuvenil), a Porto Editora lidera também o setor da…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Indirect evidencePortela, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200170 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Acreditamos no poder das palavras e no impacto que estas podem ter no mundo em que vivemos.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Indirect evidenceAv. Praia Da Vitória, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-50146 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Foi há mais de meio século que nasceu o nosso projeto.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Strong evidenceQueluz De Baixo, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20074 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Presença is an independent trade publisher of fiction and non-fiction books.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceLisboa, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20052 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Publicar livros não é o nosso trabalho, é a nossa paixão!”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Indirect evidenceOdivelas, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5025 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“A Alma dos Livros é uma editora portuguesa fundada em 2016.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Indirect evidenceLisboa, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1024 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Fundada em Abril de 2006, a Guerra e Paz editores, com o lema “é preciso virar a página”, é uma editora generalista que procura, numa parte relevante das suas publicações…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Indirect evidenceLisbon, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1013 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Independent publishing house, launched in October 2010.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Partial evidenceLisboa, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-1012 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We provide self-publishing services, enabling the launch of new works, in fiction or non-fiction, for selective audiences, as well as the resurgence of old books.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Indirect evidencePorto Salvo, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“A Saída de Emergência nasceu em 2003 e é uma editora jovem, dinâmica e 100% independente.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Indirect evidencePorto, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-109 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Fundada em 2010 no Porto, a Editora Edições Esgotadas tem como missão semear cultura através de obras de elevado valor intelectual e humano.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Indirect evidenceLisbon, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Livros Horizonte is a small independente publishing house with over 60 years of experience in the Portuguese market.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Indirect evidenceLisboa, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-107 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Alêtheia Editores publica ficção, não-ficção e arte, mas é na não-ficção que regista o seu maior sucesso, sendo conhecida pelos títulos de referência que edita, bem como pelos…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Indirect evidenceLisbon, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“A Tinta-da-china é uma editora portuguesa independente fundada em 2005.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Indirect evidenceMaia, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-505 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Indirect evidenceParede, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-103 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Principia Editora is an independent Portuguese publishing house whose activity is focused on different editorial areas through several imprints: Principia (academic, scientific…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Indirect evidenceLisbon, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-103 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Fundada em 1998, a UCP Editora pertence à Universidade Católica Portuguesa e o seu catálogo reflete grande parte da atividade científica de docentes, investigadores e alunos da…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Partial evidenceLisbon, PortugalHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-101 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Sabedoria Alternativa (Alternative Wisdom) publish books in the area of nonfiction.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Book publishers based in Portugal at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
19.7%Verified-email coverage
27.4Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
42.2%Largest-city concentration · Lisboa
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
44
11-50
10
51-200
8
501-1,000
2

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Portugal, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Portugal, over 64 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 Portugal 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 Portugal 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, 346 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
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Book publishers by metro

  • Book publishers in Lisboa27

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 Portugal?

RevenueBase identified 64 book publishers headquartered in Portugal 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?

Porto Editora, headquartered in Porto, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most book publishers?

Lisboa leads with 27 headquartered companies, followed by Lisbon (3) and Porto (3).

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 19, 2026.

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About this data

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.