Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Indie book publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,215 indie book publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 10,412 professional contacts across them, including 1,509 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers indie 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 20, 2026. Country and city lists for indie 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 indie book publishers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 414 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Books change lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 4 | 222 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Podium is a digital-first publisher committed to discovering, developing, and amplifying the works of emerging and bestselling authors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 8 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FriesenPress is the world's only 100% employee owned publishing services provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We Are: Mavericks Since coming onto the scene in 2011, Entangled has racked up the accolades-from New York Times bestsellers to starred reviews to Best Of lists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BookBaby is your full-service printing and publishing partner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IPG is the original independent book sales and distribution company in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “London's iconic independent bookshop.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Paramount Publishing Enterprise was established in 1948 and thus has been in operation for over 71 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Presença is an independent trade publisher of fiction and non-fiction books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Catavento foi criada há 59 anos com a missão clara de ser uma organização a serviço do livro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Olympia Publishers is an independent book publishing house based in London, publishing talented authors from across the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondée au XIXe siècle, Calmann-Lévy, une des plus anciennes maisons d’édition françaises, a donné au roman grand public ses lettres de noblesse avec Balzac, Flaubert, Hugo…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hello Éditions est une maison d’édition indépendante basée à Paris, engagée aux côtés des auteurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BenBella Books is one of a new breed of independent publishing houses that is thriving in the current turbulent publishing environment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Head of Zeus is a young and vibrant publishing house dedicated to new authors, great storytelling and fabulous ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Boldwood Books is an award-winning independent, global fiction publishing house.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Black Rose Writing is an independent publishing house that strongly believes in developing a personal relationship with their authors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos un equipo de profesionales apasionados por los libros y por posicionar a sus autores en sus respectivos mercados a través de sus publicaciones.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since 1973 we’ve worked to unearth and amplify the most vital, exciting voices we can find, wherever they come from, and we’ve published all kinds of books – thoughtful…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded by publishing executive Molly Stern, Zando is an independent publisher that connects inspiring authors to the audiences they deserve-and helps readers find new books to…” 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: indie 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 indie book publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of indie book publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name indie 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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Indie book 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 indie 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 indie book publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “indie 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 indie 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 indie 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, 1,509 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.
Indie book publishers by location
3 lists · largest firstEvery Indie book publishers 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 indie 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 indie book publishers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,215 indie 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 UK, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most indie book publishers?
The United States leads with 394 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (114) and the Netherlands (26). Every indie book publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most indie book publishers?
London leads with 34 headquartered companies, followed by New York (25) and Sao Paulo (15).
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 1,509 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,215 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.