Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 South asian book publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 359 south asian book publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 5,016 professional contacts across them, including 996 with verified work emails. India is the largest market and New Delhi the largest hub.
This list covers south asian 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 22, 2026. Country and city lists for south asian 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 south asian book publishers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SIA Group, established in 1979, is a leading publishing company and book distributor in South India, renowned for its high-quality yet affordable educational content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Other Press attracts authors who are guided by a passion to discover the limits of knowledge and imagination.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hachette UK is the second largest publishing group in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Prakash Books is India’s fastest growing and largest publisher by volume and market share in India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leadstart is a leading publishing house from India with creative and progressive foci.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since inception nearly 50 years ago, Roli Books has consistently identified bold themes relating to India and its heritage and commissioned the best talent to collaborate to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MISSION: The Tuttle Publishing company was founded in 1832 in the small New England town of Rutland, Vermont [USA], making it one of the oldest American publishers in operation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Editora Leader nasceu com o propósito de inovar o meio editorial.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Publishers Weekly recognized ECW Press as one of the most diversified independent publishers in North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “House of Anansi Press was founded in 1967 by writers Dennis Lee and David Godfrey to publish work by Canadian writers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ephesus Yayın Grubu, 2010 yılında kurulmuş ve o tarihten bu yana Türkiye yayıncılık sektöründe prestijli bir konum edinmiştir.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Karadi Tales is an award winning independent children's book publisher from Chennai, India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Asian Business Publications Ltd (ABPL) has been publishing Gujarat Samachar and Asian Voice in the UK since 1972, during which time we have always striven to put the needs of our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Apuleyo Ediciones is a publishing company based out of Cartaya, Spain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Vishwakarma Publications is one of Maharashtra’s largest book publishers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ananda Publishers has been the leading publisher of Bengali literary, trade and academic works for decades.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Srishti stands for creation, and has been referred since time immemorial to the creation of the world by Brahma.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Birlinn Limited is an independent publishing house based in Edinburgh, Scotland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Zorba Books is a trusted and dynamic book publishing company based in Gurgaon, NCR, India, with over 11 years of experience and published authors across India and abroad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aleph Book Company is an independent Indian publishing firm founded in May 2011 by David Davidar in partnership with R.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd.(MNP) is an independent book publishing company based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and publishes educational, scholarly/trade, children’s and art…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: south asian 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 south asian book publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of south asian book publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name south asian 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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South asian book publishers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 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 south asian 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 south asian book publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “south asian 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 south asian 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 south asian 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, 996 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 22, 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.
South asian book publishers by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery South asian 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 south asian 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 south asian book publishers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 359 south asian 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?
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most south asian book publishers?
India leads with 122 companies. Every south asian book publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most south asian book publishers?
New Delhi leads with 17 headquartered companies, followed by Delhi (10) and London (8).
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 996 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 359 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 22, 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.