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Top 25 Book publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 8,482 book publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 124,989 professional contacts across them, including 21,546 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers book publishers 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 19, 2026. Country and city lists for book publishers 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 publishers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,263 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our mission is to ignite a universal passion for reading by creating books for everyone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,477 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,248 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We deeply believe in the power of books to connect people, amplify diverse voices, create meaningful change, and make a lasting impact in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,079 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Simon & Schuster is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, providing consumers worldwide with a diverse range of quality books across a wide variety of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,803 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are Penguin Random House UK: part of the world's leading trade publisher, Penguin Random House.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,398 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Berdiri pada 30 April 1952, Erlangga Group pada mulanya hanya menerbitkan buku-buku pelajaran saja.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,364 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DK is a global publisher of internationally bestselling authors and illustrators across fiction, non-fiction, adult and children’s publishing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,068 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WEKA FACHMEDIEN GmbH is a Publishing company located in Richard-Reitzner-Allee 2, Haar, Bavaria, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,037 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 949 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Penguin Publishing Group is one of the leading trade book publishers in the United States, comprised of imprints with a long and rich history dating back to the nineteenth…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 877 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “W.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 768 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Usborne is the largest and most successful independent children's book publisher in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 713 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 595 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Harlequin is one of the world's leading publishers of books for women.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 593 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1846, we’re the second-biggest publishing group in the UK - part of Hachette Livre - with 12 divisions and over 50 imprints.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 584 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Share Stories, Spread Ideas, Change the World Notion Press is a global platform for anyone who believes in the power of words and the impact it can have on the world we live in.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 564 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 511 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Editis est un leader français de l’édition qui fédère 55 maisons d'édition prestigieuses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 498 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Professional Sports Publications, with offices in New York City, Long Island, Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, and Scottsdale, provides quality sports…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 481 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “INTERFORUM, filiale du groupe EDITIS, exerce deux fonctions principales : la commercialisation des ouvrages d’une centaine d’éditeurs appartenant au groupe EDITIS ou indépendants…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 479 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Orient BlackSwan (formerly Orient Longman), is an Indian publishing house headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 477 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Xlibris Publishing was founded in 1997 and, as the leading publishing services provider for authors, has helped to publish and market more than titles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 421 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cappelen Damm har omlag nye utgivelser årlig.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 414 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Books change lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 410 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Editora Saraiva é líder no segmento de Livros Jurídicos e uma das maiores no mercado de Livros Didáticos e Paradidáticos para Ensinos Fundamental e Médio.” 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 worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for book publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide 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.
- 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, 21,546 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 location
29 lists · largest firstEvery Book publishers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Book publishers based in the United States1,439
- Book publishers based in the United Kingdom646
- Book publishers based in India504
- Book publishers based in France486
- Book publishers based in Brazil464
- Book publishers based in Italy421
- Book publishers based in Germany365
- Book publishers based in Spain269
- Book publishers based in the Netherlands227
- Book publishers based in Canada199
- Book publishers based in Australia145
- Book publishers based in Türkiye133
- Book publishers based in Belgium97
- Book publishers based in Poland92
- Book publishers based in Argentina81
- Book publishers based in Sweden70
- Book publishers based in Denmark65
- Book publishers based in Portugal64
- Book publishers based in Switzerland61
- Book publishers based in South Africa48
- Book publishers based in Norway41
- Book publishers based in Greece38
- Book publishers based in Austria30
Cities
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 worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 8,482 book publishers 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?
Penguin Random House, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most book publishers?
The United States leads with 1,439 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (646) and India (504). Every book publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most book publishers?
London leads with 228 headquartered companies, followed by Paris (184) and Sao Paulo (169).
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 21,546 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 8,482 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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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.