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Top 25 Library publishers based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 194 library publishers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 14,674 professional contacts across them, including 4,519 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers library publishers headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 20, 2026.
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The 25 largest library publishers based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 3,064 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 593 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 249 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A history stretching back over 200 years, HarperCollins is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 218 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic and business publisher for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Clays have become a major force in this fluid and evolving world through extensive investment and a determination to react quickly to our customers’ fast moving needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Your Trusted Partner in Publishing Success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are part of global publisher Simon & Schuster.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CGP is the UK’s No.1 educational publisher.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Edward Elgar Publishing is a leading international academic and professional publisher with a strong focus on the social sciences and legal fields.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cambridge Scholars Publishing is an independent academic publisher, committed to providing a forward-thinking publishing service that champions original thinking, whilst ensuring…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “VISION IN SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL PUBLISHING Founded in 2001, Future Science Group is a progressive publisher focused on breakthrough medical, biotechnological and scientific…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Polity is a leading independent publisher in the social sciences and humanities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bloomsbury Professional is a traditional but cutting-edge publisher of high quality books and information services for lawyers, accountants and business professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Boydell & Brewer Ltd was formed in 1978.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1993, Anthem Press specializes in the publishing of new academic research, professional and trade books and e-books within established and emerging social sciences…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Ashgate Publishing Group incorporates Ashgate Publishing, Gower Publishing and Lund Humphries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Brooklands New Media, one of the world’s most authoritative and influential book publishers, has been publishing commemorative books on the world’s leading private and public…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, a niche publisher of academic and professional books as well as academic journals was incorporated in the United Kingdom in March 2003.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We produce books, reports and journals for publishers and public sector organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Amber Books Ltd is an illustrated non-fiction publisher and book packaging company based in north London, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Distribution services for scientific, technical, medical, professional and specialist publishers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ADJACENT DIGITAL POLITICS LIMITED is a Publishing company located in DATUM HOUSE ELECTRA WAY CREWE BUSINESS PARK, CREWE, CHESHIRE, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “JCS Online Resources helps schools around the world access high-quality trusted content to support exceptional teaching, effective learning, and student achievement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UniPress aims to publish a range of vibrant, resourceful and engaging books that will stimulate curious minds and inspire smart thinking.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: library 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 library publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of library publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name library 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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Library publishers based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 194 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 library 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 Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “library 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 library 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 library publishers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 4,519 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 20, 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.
Library publishers by metro
- Library publishers in London52
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 library 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 library publishers are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 194 library publishers headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
Taylor & Francis Group, headquartered in Milton, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most library publishers?
London leads with 52 headquartered companies, followed by Oxford (6) and Edinburgh (4).
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 4,519 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 194 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 20, 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.