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Top 25 Trade book publishers worldwide

RevenueBase identified 1,220 trade book publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 53,580 professional contacts across them, including 12,133 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.

This list covers trade 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 trade 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 22, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
1,220Companies
53,580Contacts tracked
12,133Verified emails
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The 25 largest trade book publishers worldwide

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 1,220 trade book publishers worldwide, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to trade book publishers: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 202610001+7,263 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Our mission is to ignite a universal passion for reading by creating books for everyone.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
2Strong evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 20261,001-5,0003,477 contacts →

Strong evidence

“HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
3Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 20261,001-5,0002,248 contacts →

Partial 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 22, 2026
4Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 20261,001-5,0002,079 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Simon & Schuster is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, providing consumers worldwide with a diverse range of quality books across a wide variety of…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
5Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 20261,001-5,0001,803 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are Penguin Random House UK: part of the world's leading trade publisher, Penguin Random House.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
6Indirect evidenceLa Vergne, TN, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 20261,001-5,0001,634 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The world is reading.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
7Indirect evidenceJakarta, IndonesiaHQ checked Sep 22, 20261,001-5,0001,398 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Berdiri pada 30 April 1952, Erlangga Group pada mulanya hanya menerbitkan buku-buku pelajaran saja.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
8Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 20261,001-5,0001,364 contacts →

Partial evidence

“DK is a global publisher of internationally bestselling authors and illustrators across fiction, non-fiction, adult and children’s publishing.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
9Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026501-1,0001,037 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, 2026
10Strong evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 20261,001-5,000949 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Penguin Publishing Group is one of the leading trade book publishers in the United States, comprised of imprints with a long and rich history dating back to the nineteenth…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
11Indirect evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026201-500877 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“W.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
12Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026201-500768 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Usborne is the largest and most successful independent children's book publisher in the UK.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
13Partial evidenceOak Brook, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 20261,001-5,000698 contacts →

Partial evidence

“ReaderLink is North America’s largest full-service book distributor.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
14Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 20261,001-5,000593 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Founded in 1846, we’re the second-biggest publishing group in the UK - part of Hachette Livre - with 12 divisions and over 50 imprints.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
15Indirect evidenceUnited StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026n/a564 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
16Indirect evidenceCopenhagen, DenmarkHQ checked Sep 22, 2026201-500451 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“I mere end 250 år har Gyldendal været med til at forme fortællingen om Danmark.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
17Indirect evidenceOslo, NorwayHQ checked Sep 22, 2026201-500421 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Cappelen Damm har omlag nye utgivelser årlig.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
18Partial evidenceNaperville, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026201-500414 contacts →

Partial evidence

Books change lives.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
19Partial evidenceUnited StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 20261,001-5,000372 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Ingram Book Group is a wholesale distributor of books, periodicals and audio books to booksellers, librarians, and specialty retailers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
20Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026201-500344 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Quarto Group (LSE: QRT) is the leading global illustrated book publisher.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
21Indirect evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026201-500321 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“St.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
22Partial evidenceBraunschweig, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 20261,001-5,000307 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Westermann Gruppe is one of the largest German publishers of educational media.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
23Strong evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026201-500288 contacts →

Strong 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 22, 2026
24Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026201-500265 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We publish for everyone.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
25Partial evidenceCanary Wharf, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 202651-200265 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Austin Macauley Publishers is an independent publisher based in London, New York and Sharjah.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026

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Trade book publishers worldwide at a glance

As of Sep 22, 2026
22.6%Verified-email coverage
43.9Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
3.2%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 22, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
648
11-50
305
51-200
151
201-500
57
501-1,000
19
1,001-5,000
26
5,001-10,000
1
10001+
4

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 trade 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 trade book publishers are linked below.
What qualifies
Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “trade 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 trade 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 trade 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, 12,133 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.

Trade book publishers by location

7 lists · largest first

Every Trade book publishers 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 trade 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 trade book publishers are there worldwide?

RevenueBase identified 1,220 trade 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, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which country has the most trade book publishers?

The United States leads with 248 companies, followed by India (91) and the United Kingdom (86). Every trade book publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.

Which city has the most trade book publishers?

London leads with 39 headquartered companies, followed by New York (37) and Sao Paulo (27).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

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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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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.