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Top 25 Book publishing companies based in Germany

RevenueBase identified 206 book publishing companies headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 4,381 professional contacts across them, including 929 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.

This list covers book publishing companies headquartered in Germany, 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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206Companies
4,381Contacts tracked
929Verified emails
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The 25 largest book publishing companies based in Germany

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 206 book publishing companies based in Germany, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to book publishing companies: 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
1Partial evidenceHaar, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 2026n/a1,068 contacts →

Partial evidence

“WEKA FACHMEDIEN GmbH is a Publishing company located in Richard-Reitzner-Allee 2, Haar, Bavaria, Germany.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Indirect evidenceBraunschweig, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000307 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Westermann Gruppe is one of the largest German publishers of educational media.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000195 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Als führendes Barsortiment ist Libri ein zentrales Bindeglied zwischen Verlag, stationären Buchhandel und Onlinehandel.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Indirect evidenceKöln, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500190 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Die Bastei Lübbe AG ist der größte unabhängige Publikumsverlag Deutschlands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Partial evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500156 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Die Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur mit Sitz in München ist Teil der renommierten Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200119 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Rowohlt Verlag GmbH is a retail company based out of Hamburg, Germany.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Indirect evidenceMünchen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200113 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Founded in 1928 by Carl Hanser, the company is still owned by the family of the publisher's founder.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Indirect evidenceFrankfurt Am Main, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200109 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Seit unserer Gründung im Jahr 1886 durch Samuel Fischer in Berlin sind die S.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Partial evidenceFrankfurt Am Main, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200100 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Bookwire GmbH was founded in Frankfurt in 2010 as a service provider for the distribution of e-books and digital content.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Indirect evidenceMünchen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20095 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Mit unseren 13 Verlagsmarken, eingebettet in das Verlagshaus GeraNova Bruckmann, bietet unser Unternehmen mit unseren Büchern, Zeitschriften und digitalen Produkten ein modernes…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Indirect evidenceMünchen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20094 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“PIPER Verlag »Ich gehe auf jedes Buch zu, als könnte es ein guter Freund werden«: Mit diesem leidenschaftlichen Bekenntnis zur Literatur schlägt Piper-Verlegerin Felicitas von…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Indirect evidenceMünchen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20068 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Warum wir tun, was wir tun.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Indirect evidenceStuttgart, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20062 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Mit 400 neuen Buchtiteln pro Jahr und 14 Fachzeitschriften zählt Kohlhammer zu den größten wissenschaftlichen Verlagshäusern im deutschsprachigen Raum.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Indirect evidenceLeipzig, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20034 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20028 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“In der Verlagsgruppe HarperCollins Deutschland erscheinen in den Verlagen HarperCollins, Nagel und Kimche, Ecco, reverie, HarperAudio, Schneiderbuch, Dragonfly und Cora jährlich…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Indirect evidenceKöln, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5026 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Wir sind DER Verlag für Social Media Influencer und veröffentlichen Bücher von YouTubern, Instagrammern und Web-Stars.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Indirect evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20024 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Partial evidenceMünchen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20022 contacts →

Partial evidence

“OPEN PUBLISHING – Software & Services für Verlage BILANDIA – kreatives Online-Marketing für alle Themen rund ums Publizieren Gemeinsam sind wir der kompetente Partner für…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Indirect evidenceKöln, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5022 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Die Geschichte des LINGEN Verlags ist untrennbar mit Köln und Helmut Lingen verbunden.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Die Edel Verlagsgruppe zählt zu den größten unabhängigen Buchanbietern Deutschlands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Partial evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5018 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Under the umbrella of Neopubli GmbH, we bring together three strong self-publishing brands: Autaria, epubli, and neobooks.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Indirect evidencePaderborn-kernstadt, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5017 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Indirect evidenceRötha / Espenhain, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Die LKG ist eine Marke der agorando® Technologies GmbH.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Partial evidenceUnterhaching, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-509 contacts →

Partial evidence

“CALVENDO is the world’s first publisher to enable creative people not only to publish the calendars and poster books they make using their own photos, graphic art and writing, but…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Indirect evidenceHildesheim, GermanyHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-509 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Book publishing companies based in Germany at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
21.2%Verified-email coverage
21.3Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
11.7%Largest-city concentration · Berlin
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
138
11-50
37
51-200
21
201-500
2
501-1,000
3
1,001-5,000
2

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 206 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 publishing companies, 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 Germany whose own description of what they do matches “book publishing companies”. 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 publishing companies), 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 publishing companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany 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, 929 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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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 publishing companies, 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 publishing companies are there based in Germany?

RevenueBase identified 206 book publishing companies headquartered in Germany 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?

Weka Fachmedien Gmbh, headquartered in Haar, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most book publishing companies?

Berlin leads with 24 headquartered companies, followed by Hamburg (18) and Munchen (17).

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 929 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 206 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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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.