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Top 25 Book publishing houses companies worldwide

RevenueBase identified 3,589 book publishing houses companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 80,217 professional contacts across them, including 15,552 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.

This list covers book publishing houses companies 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 publishing houses companies 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 19, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
3,589Companies
80,217Contacts tracked
15,552Verified emails
0Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest book publishing houses companies worldwide

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 3,589 book publishing houses companies worldwide, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to book publishing houses 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 evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202610001+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, 2026
2Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0003,477 contacts →

Partial evidence

“HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0002,248 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, 2026
4Strong evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0002,079 contacts →

Strong 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, 2026
5Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0001,803 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, 2026
6Indirect evidenceLa Vergne, TN, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0001,634 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The world is reading.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0001,364 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, 2026
8Partial 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
9Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,0001,037 contacts →

Strong 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, 2026
10Strong evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000949 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, 2026
11Indirect evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500877 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“W.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500768 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Usborne is the largest and most successful independent children's book publisher in the UK.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Partial evidenceMumbai, IndiaHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000706 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 19, 2026
14Partial evidenceOak Brook, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000698 contacts →

Partial evidence

“ReaderLink is North America’s largest full-service book distributor.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Partial evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500595 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Harlequin is one of the world's leading publishers of books for women.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000593 contacts →

Partial 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, 2026
17Indirect evidenceChennai, IndiaHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200584 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, 2026
18Strong evidenceResearch Triangle, NC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200515 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Lulu is a global publishing technology company for businesses built on books.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Partial evidenceBloomington, IN, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000504 contacts →

Partial evidence

“AuthorHouse, an Author Solutions brand, is the leading provider of self-publishing and marketing services for authors around the globe.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Strong evidenceNoida, IndiaHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500479 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Orient BlackSwan (formerly Orient Longman), is an Indian publishing house headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Partial evidenceBloomington, IN, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000477 contacts →

Partial 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, 2026
22Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000451 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Run by a pair of metaphor-loving, simile-craving, typo-hating literary enthusiasts, Amazon Kindle Direct Publisher is the place where authors come to terraform their ideas into…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Indirect evidenceBloomington, IN, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,000436 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Author Solutions is a global company, headquartered in beautiful Bloomington, Indiana, with customers on all seven continents.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Partial evidenceNaperville, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500414 contacts →

Partial evidence

Books change lives.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-500403 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Les Éditions Albin Michel sont une maison d’édition française fondée en 1900.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Book publishing houses companies worldwide at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
19.4%Verified-email coverage
22.4Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
3.9%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
2,319
11-50
810
51-200
288
201-500
86
501-1,000
24
1,001-5,000
30
5,001-10,000
3
10001+
3

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 houses 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.
Coverage
18 countries, largest first: the United States, the United Kingdom, India, France, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Canada and 8 more. Country and city lists for book publishing houses companies are linked below.
What qualifies
Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “book publishing houses 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 houses 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 houses companies, 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, 15,552 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 publishing houses companies by location

18 lists · largest first

Every Book publishing houses companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.

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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 houses 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 houses companies are there worldwide?

RevenueBase identified 3,589 book publishing houses companies 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 publishing houses companies?

The United States leads with 1,022 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (394) and India (323). Every book publishing houses companies list by country and city is linked on this page.

Which city has the most book publishing houses companies?

London leads with 140 headquartered companies, followed by Paris (102) and Sao Paulo (95).

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 15,552 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,589 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.