Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Women book publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 392 women book publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 8,290 professional contacts across them, including 1,649 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers women 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 19, 2026. Country and city lists for women 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 women book publishers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,248 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 414 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Books change lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 303 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We publish for everyone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur mit Sitz in München ist Teil der renommierten Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Farrar, Straus and Giroux was founded in 1946 by Roger W.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hoffman Media, LLC (HM) is a privately held, leading special-interest publisher based in Birmingham, Ala.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1892, Sheridan Worzalla (formerly Worzalla) specializes in the production of cookbooks, children’s, trade, and lifestyle books, and is dedicated to exceeding…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mit unseren 13 Verlagsmarken, eingebettet in das Verlagshaus GeraNova Bruckmann, bietet unser Unternehmen mit unseren Büchern, Zeitschriften und digitalen Produkten ein modernes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PIPER Verlag »Ich gehe auf jedes Buch zu, als könnte es ein guter Freund werden«: Mit diesem leidenschaftlichen Bekenntnis zur Literatur schlägt Piper-Verlegerin Felicitas von…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hospital Pharmacy Inc is a publishing company based out of 401 Ne 1st St, Enterprise, Oregon, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Quercus is a young, vibrant, internationally successful and award-winning publisher of fiction, non-fiction and children’s books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ukiyoto publishes quality content after thorough scrutiny and shortlisting of manuscripts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headline is part of Hachette UK, one of the UK’s biggest publishing groups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “In July 1985 Michael O’Mara Books published its first book.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Granta Publications is the home of Granta Magazine, Granta Books and Portobello Books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Girl Friday Productions creates books that build brands for entrepreneurs, serious authors, and publishers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1994 by award-winning author, columnist, and publisher Milli Brown, Brown Books Publishing Group (BBPG) pioneered Relationship Publishing™, and the Dallas-based company…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Pushkin Press was founded in 1997, and publishes novels, essays, memoirs, children’s books-everything from timeless classics to the urgent and contemporary.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Edel Verlagsgruppe zählt zu den größten unabhängigen Buchanbietern Deutschlands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “She Writes Press is an award-winning hybrid publishing company that’s both mission-driven and community-oriented.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Read by top authors and absolute beginners, Mslexia is a quarterly masterclass in the business and psychology of writing.” 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: women 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 women book publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of women book publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name women 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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Women book publishers 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 women 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
- 3 countries, largest first: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany. Country and city lists for women book publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “women 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 women 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 women 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, 1,649 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.
Women book publishers by location
3 lists · largest firstEvery Women 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 women 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 women book publishers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 392 women 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?
Macmillan, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most women book publishers?
The United States leads with 230 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (100) and Germany (62). Every women book publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most women book publishers?
London leads with 33 headquartered companies, followed by New York (16) and Los Angeles (10).
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 1,649 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 392 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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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.