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Top 25 College textbook publishers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 108 college textbook publishers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,385 professional contacts across them, including 893 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers college textbook publishers headquartered in the United States, 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.
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The 25 largest college textbook publishers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 319 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1944, Kendall Hunt has been a privately owned and operated educational publishing company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections, both formal and informal, to Princeton University.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In May 2024, Rowman & Littlefield, Applause, Backbeat, Lexington Books, and Bernan Press became imprints of Bloomsbury Publishing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Barnes & Noble College Book Store is a retail company based out of 8890 MCGAW RD, Columbia, Maryland, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Larson Texts, Inc, along with its subsidiary Big Ideas Learning LLC, produces math textbooks for sixth grade through college calculus that are used by over five million students…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Giving students a competitive advantage in a diverse, global workforce is our goal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Big Ideas Learning, founded in 2008 by Dr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 11 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our first priority is found in preparing students for life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For more than 60 years, ABC-CLIO has delivered award-winning collections of digital and print resources.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 14 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From print and digital to OER, devices and more, Ambassador simplifies course materials adoption, management, delivery and access.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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. | |||||
| 16 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nova Science Publishers produces approximately 1,800 new titles each year by leading researchers from every corner of the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Welcome to Lovegevity, an educational publishing company founded in 1997, specializing in professional programs, certifications, textbooks, and curriculum development for colleges…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Labyrinth Learning publishes a wide range of books and e-learning tools for community colleges, technical schools and community education programs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Composure: Where Ideas Take Shape, and Learning Takes Flight At Composure, we don’t just deliver educational publishing solutions-we craft transformative learning experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As an acclaimed international publisher of distinguished research and notable works of general interest since 1966, SUNY Press supports the commitments of the State University of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LAD Custom Publishing has served the higher ed market for more than 20 years and partners with over 1,200 colleges and universities in the US and Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GEX, Incorporated is a full-service educational publisher, providing content development, digital, and production services to the world’s foremost publishers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BookXchange is a wholesale textbook company that has been in business since 2006 and has continued to grow steadily, offering stable employment to our staff and exceptional…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bess Press is a regional publisher based in Honolulu, Hawaii.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Prospect Press is a Higher Education publishing company serving the Information Systems curriculum.” 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: college textbook 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 college textbook publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of college textbook publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name college textbook 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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College textbook publishers based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 108 companies.
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 college textbook 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “college textbook 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 college textbook 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 college textbook publishers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 893 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.
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 college textbook 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 college textbook publishers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 108 college textbook publishers headquartered in the United States 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?
Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, headquartered in Dubuque, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most college textbook publishers?
New York leads with 6 headquartered companies, followed by Dubuque (4) and Chicago (3).
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 893 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 108 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.
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