Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Genre fiction publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,376 genre fiction publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 17,281 professional contacts across them, including 2,889 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers genre fiction 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 20, 2026. Country and city lists for genre fiction 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 genre fiction publishers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,248 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 595 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Harlequin is one of the world's leading publishers of books for women.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 564 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 414 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Books change lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 321 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 303 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 288 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Penguin Random House Canada, the country’s largest book publisher, aims to nourish a universal passion for reading by connecting authors and their writing with readers everywhere.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Publishing great books by talented writers and forging connections with readers for the long-term.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Bastei Lübbe AG ist der größte unabhängige Publikumsverlag Deutschlands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hodder & Stoughton is a major publisher within Hachette UK, one of the UK’s biggest publishing groups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 177 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1974, Kensington Publishing Corp.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 175 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in Brazil in 1987, the Devir group looked to establish roots in the imaginative universes of fiction and fantasy, offering products that involve wits, knowledge, art, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Uitgeverij Lannoo nv heeft haar succes te danken aan jarenlange ervaring, creativiteit en een hecht team van gedreven medewerkers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Twice winner of the KPMG publisher of the year award, and with a string of top sellers in each season, Little, Brown Book Group has a proven history of success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 137 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tor Books is the most successful science fiction and fantasy publisher in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Farrar, Straus and Giroux was founded in 1946 by Roger W.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are part of global publisher Simon & Schuster.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We fill the world with stories.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ambo|Anthos uitgevers is een van de meest succesvolle uitgeverijen op het gebied van fictie, non-fictie en literaire thrillers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rowohlt Verlag GmbH is a retail company based out of Hamburg, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission at Hachette Australia is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment, and opportunity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Greenleaf Book Group is a publisher and distributor that specializes in the development of independent authors and the growth of small presses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seit unserer Gründung im Jahr 1886 durch Samuel Fischer in Berlin sind die S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WPG Uitgevers België is onderdeel van WPG Uitgevers en geeft onderdak aan uitgeverij Manteau, De Bezige Bij Antwerpen en Standaard Uitgeverij.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: genre fiction 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 genre fiction publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of genre fiction publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name genre fiction 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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Genre fiction publishers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 genre fiction 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 genre fiction publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “genre fiction 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 genre fiction 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 genre fiction 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, 2,889 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 20, 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.
Genre fiction publishers by location
8 lists · largest firstEvery Genre fiction publishers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Genre fiction publishers based in the United States384
- Genre fiction publishers based in the United Kingdom125
- Genre fiction publishers based in France103
- Genre fiction publishers based in Brazil93
- Genre fiction publishers based in Canada58
- Genre fiction publishers based in Germany57
- Genre fiction publishers based in Australia39
- Genre fiction publishers based in the Netherlands36
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 genre fiction 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 genre fiction publishers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,376 genre fiction 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?
Macmillan, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most genre fiction publishers?
The United States leads with 384 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (125) and France (103). Every genre fiction publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most genre fiction publishers?
London leads with 43 headquartered companies, followed by New York (35) and Paris (23).
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 2,889 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,376 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 20, 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.