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Top 25 Publishing and distribution services based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 888 publishing and distribution services headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 18,025 professional contacts across them, including 3,616 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers publishing and distribution services 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 17, 2026.
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 publishing and distribution services based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,385 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In today’s digital world, content is becoming ever more sophisticated and increasingly inseparable from technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,634 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The world is reading.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 881 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd.(KGL) is the industry leader in transformative publishing solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 698 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ReaderLink is North America’s largest full-service book distributor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 515 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lulu is a global publishing technology company for businesses built on books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 477 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Xlibris Publishing was founded in 1997 and, as the leading publishing services provider for authors, has helped to publish and market more than titles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 361 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 347 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 333 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CreateSpace, an Amazon company, is the leading provider of independent publishing tools that enable authors, filmmakers and musicians to produce, polish, publish and distribute…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 253 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Family-owned and Denver-based since 1979, Publication Printers has grown from a small print shop to one of the top 5 publication printers in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 203 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dorrance Publishing has been pioneering publishing services for over 100 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lightning Source is the leading print-on-demand company in the world, offering the unique combination of quality one-off book manufacturing and access to the most comprehensive…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Christian Faith Publishing is a full-service book publisher based and operated in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 149 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Spines: Revolutionizing Publishing with AI At Spines, we're redefining the publishing journey, Our mission?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Xulon Press is the largest, most experienced Christian owned and operated print-on-demand self publisher of Christian books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Outskirts Press helps authors develop and publish high-quality books by offering exceptional design, printing, publishing, distribution, and book marketing services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 118 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At YourBookTeam, we partner with visionaries and founders to transform ideas into timeless books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Greenleaf Book Group is a publisher and distributor that specializes in the development of independent authors and the growth of small presses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A distinguished leader in the print production industry, Freeport Press specializes in the high-quality production, binding, mailing, and distribution of niche publications…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “In March 2022, Smashwords merged with Draft2Digital, creating the industry's leading publishing services firm serving over authors and publishing and distributing over 1 million…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BookBaby is your full-service printing and publishing partner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hospital Pharmacy Inc is a publishing company based out of 401 Ne 1st St, Enterprise, Oregon, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IPG is the original independent book sales and distribution company in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Who We Are: A team of publishing professionals: project managers, editors, designers, sound engineers, producers, artists, animators, and writers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re book lovers who are here to help you with every aspect of publishing your work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 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: publishing and distribution services. 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 publishing and distribution services.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of publishing and distribution services, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name publishing and distribution services. 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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Publishing and distribution services based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 17, 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 888 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 publishing and distribution services, 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 “publishing and distribution services”. 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 publishing and distribution services), 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 publishing and distribution services, 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, 3,616 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 17, 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.
Publishing and distribution services by metro
- Publishing and distribution services in New York32
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 publishing and distribution services, 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 publishing and distribution services are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 888 publishing and distribution services 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?
MPS Limited, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most publishing and distribution services?
New York leads with 32 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (18) and Los Angeles (17).
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 3,616 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 888 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 17, 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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