Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Romance novel publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 552 romance novel publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 4,736 professional contacts across them, including 442 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers romance novel 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 21, 2026. Country and city lists for romance novel 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 romance novel publishers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 595 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Harlequin is one of the world's leading publishers of books for women.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 321 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créée en 2007 par François Guilmoto, Edilivre est une société d’édition qui a pour objectif de rendre l’édition plus accessible aux auteurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an experienced and affordable Delhi based self-publishing company, with a huge network across the nation in major cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Patna…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HarperCollins France est une maison d'édition spécialisée en littérature grand public.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BookBaby is your full-service printing and publishing partner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re a dynamic digital publisher of bestselling commercial fiction.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Boldwood Books is an award-winning independent, global fiction publishing house.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PaperTrue is a global self-publishing company dedicated to turning manuscripts into beautifully published books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Les éditions Bookmark, fondées en 2013, ont pour but de promouvoir la fiction à travers des œuvres de qualité mettant en lumière et de façon positive des histoires d’amours, de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bubok is the online self publishing company leader in Spain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Publicar un libro nunca fue tan fácil!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wydajemy książki, które sami chcemy przeczytać i którymi chcemy obdarować najbliższych.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “What would you like to share with the world?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Prowess Publishing has over 14 years of experience delivering innovative solutions to the Publishing & Media companies around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jamsai Publishing Co, Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Dreamspinner Press is an international full-service publisher of gay romance based in the United States of America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Canelo is an ebook and paperback publisher, founded in 2015, and now one of the fastest-growing publishing companies in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HarperCollins Nordic är det lokala internationella förlaget som ger läsarna den bästa underhållningen och tar de bästa författarna ut i världen, inom genrer som deckare, romance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Severn House we are dedicated to publishing unputdownable genre fiction: from gritty procedurals to cosy mysteries and tense thrillers, as well as sci-fi, horror, romance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Totally Entwined Group is comprised of three publishing houses – Totally Bound Publishing (Romantica), Finch Books (Young Adult), Pride Publishing (GLBTQI Fiction).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Under the umbrella of Neopubli GmbH, we bring together three strong self-publishing brands: Autaria, epubli, and neobooks.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Shadow Mountain is a general trade publisher of fiction and non-fiction.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: romance novel 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 romance novel publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of romance novel publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name romance novel 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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Romance novel publishers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 21, 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 romance novel 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 romance novel publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “romance novel 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 romance novel 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 romance novel 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, 442 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 21, 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.
Romance novel publishers by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery Romance novel 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 romance novel 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 romance novel publishers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 552 romance novel 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?
Harlequin, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most romance novel publishers?
The United States leads with 153 companies. Every romance novel publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most romance novel publishers?
London leads with 15 headquartered companies, followed by New Delhi (8) and Madrid (7).
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 442 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 552 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 21, 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.