Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Textbook distributors worldwide
RevenueBase identified 533 textbook distributors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 18,364 professional contacts across them, including 4,490 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers textbook distributors 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 textbook distributors 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 textbook distributors worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,785 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Follett Higher Education is a leading educational service provider and omnichannel retailer providing students, faculty and staff, parents, and fans with the course materials…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,699 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Barnes & Noble College, a Barnes & Noble Education (NYSE:BNED) company, is a leading operator of college bookstores in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,634 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The world is reading.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 698 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Transformar o país pela educação: esse é o nosso propósito!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 698 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ReaderLink is North America’s largest full-service book distributor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 479 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Orient BlackSwan (formerly Orient Longman), is an Indian publishing house headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 410 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Editora Saraiva é líder no segmento de Livros Jurídicos e uma das maiores no mercado de Livros Didáticos e Paradidáticos para Ensinos Fundamental e Médio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 307 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Westermann Gruppe is one of the largest German publishers of educational media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 226 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1969, Vikas® is a well-respected name in the world of educational and general books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 195 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Als führendes Barsortiment ist Libri ein zentrales Bindeglied zwischen Verlag, stationären Buchhandel und Onlinehandel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 193 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundada em 1968, para importar e distribuir livros e materiais de ensino de idiomas, a Disal rapidamente conquistou esse mercado e se transformou na maior distribuidora de livros…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 188 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “eCampus.com is a premier online retailer of new, used and electronic textbooks for sale or rent, study materials and book buyback services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 161 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded by two educators in 1926, Perfection Learning® provides high-quality, innovative curriculum solutions to K-12 schools across the country and internationally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BibliU is the only vertically integrated campus store and course materials partner combining proprietary digital technology, innovative access programs, flexible billing models…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cognella® is redefining academic publishing by creating teacher-driven, student-centric higher education course materials in print and digital formats under three imprints…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Perlego was born to provide an affordable (and sustainable) textbook solution for learners around the world, by partnering with publishers and removing the costs of print…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Textbook Brokers is an Arkansas headquartered, debt-free, veteran-owned company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “62 Years' Legacy in Publishing!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Digital-first college textbook publisher committed to building a strong position in the college textbook market by expanding access to high quality, affordable content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MBS Textbook Exchange was acquired by Barnes & Noble Education in 2017.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Éditeur spécialisé en matériel scolaire aux niveaux primaire, secondaire et collégial.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RedShelf is the innovation leader in course materials solutions for higher education, delivering digital course materials from 600+ publishers to over 1,400 institutions serving…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Great River Learning is the higher education textbook company you've been looking for: we publish for the way you want to teach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Choice Books distributes a wide variety of books and products including adult and juvenile fiction, Bibles, biography, children’s, Christian living, classics, cookbooks…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: textbook distributors. 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 textbook distributors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of textbook distributors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name textbook distributors. 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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Textbook distributors worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
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 textbook distributors, 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
- 6 countries, largest first: the United States, India, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany. Country and city lists for textbook distributors are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “textbook distributors”. 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 textbook distributors), 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 textbook distributors, 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, 4,490 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
- 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.
Textbook distributors by location
6 lists · largest firstEvery Textbook distributors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
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 textbook distributors, 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 textbook distributors are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 533 textbook distributors 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?
Follett Higher Education, headquartered in Westchester, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most textbook distributors?
The United States leads with 248 companies, followed by India (133) and Brazil (53). Every textbook distributors list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most textbook distributors?
Sao Paulo leads with 23 headquartered companies, followed by New Delhi (21) and Delhi (12).
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 4,490 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 533 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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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.