Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Book distributors worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,363 book distributors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 19,779 professional contacts across them, including 4,122 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers book distributors worldwide, 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. Country and city lists for book distributors follow the table.
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 distributors worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,634 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The world is reading.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 706 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Repro India, as a Book Aggregator, bridges the miles between content owners (publishers) and their end customer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 698 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ReaderLink is North America’s largest full-service book distributor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 479 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Orient BlackSwan (formerly Orient Longman), is an Indian publishing house headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 322 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CB staat voor ruim 150 jaar ervaring in logistieke dienstverlening van het voor het boekenvak, nationaal en internationaal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 307 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Westermann Gruppe is one of the largest German publishers of educational media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Publishing great books by talented writers and forging connections with readers for the long-term.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 60 years Scholastic Canada has introduced young people to the joys of reading, and has enlarged their understanding of Canada and the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 208 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Diamond Comic Distributors (DCD) is at the nexus of comics and pop culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Clays have become a major force in this fluid and evolving world through extensive investment and a determination to react quickly to our customers’ fast moving needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 195 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Als führendes Barsortiment ist Libri ein zentrales Bindeglied zwischen Verlag, stationären Buchhandel und Onlinehandel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 193 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundada em 1968, para importar e distribuir livros e materiais de ensino de idiomas, a Disal rapidamente conquistou esse mercado e se transformou na maior distribuidora de livros…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lightning Source is the leading print-on-demand company in the world, offering the unique combination of quality one-off book manufacturing and access to the most comprehensive…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Christian Faith Publishing is a full-service book publisher based and operated in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 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. | |||||
| 17 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gardners is one of the world’s leading suppliers of English language books, and one of Europe’s biggest suppliers of not only books but also Film, Music and Vinyl.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 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. | |||||
| 19 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Xulon Press is the largest, most experienced Christian owned and operated print-on-demand self publisher of Christian books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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. | |||||
| 21 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “1989 yılında eğitim yayıncılığı sektöründe faaliyete başlayan İşler Yayın Grubu, köklü kurumsal geçmişi ve geniş operasyonel yetkinliği ile sektörün öncü kuruluşları arasında yer…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are part of global publisher Simon & Schuster.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Starting from humble beginnings amidst the aftermath of the Second World War in 1945, we have since grown from a small retail outlet selling basic school supplies into one of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Página está entre as maiores distribuidoras de livros do Brasil, atuando há mais de 19 anos no mercado, procurando destacar-se com postura ética e profissional.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The #1 Magazine Distributor for Independent Publishers.” 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 worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
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.
- Coverage
- 12 countries, largest first: the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Canada, Türkiye and 2 more. Country and city lists for book distributors are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide 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.
- 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, 4,122 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
- 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 distributors by location
12 lists · largest firstEvery Book distributors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Book distributors based in the United States329
- Book distributors based in India171
- Book distributors based in the United Kingdom146
- Book distributors based in Brazil133
- Book distributors based in Italy125
- Book distributors based in France101
- Book distributors based in Spain91
- Book distributors based in Germany87
- Book distributors based in Canada55
- Book distributors based in Türkiye53
- Book distributors based in the Netherlands40
- Book distributors based in Australia32
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 worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,363 book distributors worldwide 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?
Ingram Content Group, headquartered in La Vergne, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most book distributors?
The United States leads with 329 companies, followed by India (171) and the United Kingdom (146). Every book distributors list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most book distributors?
Sao Paulo leads with 45 headquartered companies, followed by London (36) and Paris (31).
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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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.