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Sample rows

10 of the 566 rows. Emails and phone numbers are masked here; the CSV has them in full.

What the list shows

California has the most listings: 100 businesses, 70 of them with an email address. New York follows with 63.

27 rows (5%) carry one of 2 names used by 10 or more listings, led by Alpha Book Publisher with 17. 522 businesses have a name used only once, and 396 of those have an email address.

The median Google rating of the 362 rated businesses is 4.9, and 160 have a perfect 5.0.

Of the 396 email addresses, 219 (55%) are role addresses such as info@, 129 (33%) name a person and 48 (12%) are free mail.

Source: ProfessionLens, November 2026.

What is in this book publisher email list?

The book publisher list has 566 Google Maps listings in the Book publisher category, counted on 9 November 2026. A row is one publishing business: a trade imprint, a small press, a self-publishing services company, a academic or religious press, or a regional publisher that prints local history. A house with its editorial office and warehouse listed separately can appear twice.

Of the 566 listings, 396 show an email address from the publisher's own website. Phone numbers are on 502 rows and a website is on 491. A publisher's site usually lists its catalog, its submission rules and its staff, so the website column tells you a lot before you write.

Every row has the same Google category, Book publisher. The file cannot tell a children's press from a textbook house, so the name and the website do that.

How can you segment the file?

Excel or Google Sheets opens the publisher CSV directly. For publishers the useful columns are state, city, email type and business name.

Names give hints about the list. Press, Books, Publishing, Media, House, Editions, Academic, Christian and Children's in a name point to different catalogs and different buyers. A name that ends in Publishing Services or Author Services usually marks a company that publishes other people's books for a fee, which makes it a vendor of services and a different audience from a house that acquires manuscripts.

The city column matters more than in most trades, because publishing clusters. New York dominates, and a seller of printing, freelance editing or distribution services can target a single city or neighborhood cluster. Brooklyn and Manhattan together hold a meaningful block of the file.

Email type is mixed. Of the 396 addresses, 129 name a person on the publisher's domain, 219 are role addresses such as info@, submissions@ or orders@, and 48 are free mail. The role addresses lean toward submissions and orders desks, whose staff are not the ones who buy services.

• Business name: Press, Books and Editions for imprints, Publishing Services for pay-to-publish firms.
• City: New York, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Portland for clusters.
• Email type: 129 named-person addresses for editors and owners, 219 role addresses for desks.
• Website column: read the catalog page and the submissions page.

Who buys a book publisher email list?

The buyers sell to the people who make and sell books. Printers and print brokers look for publishers who order runs of a few hundred to a few thousand copies. Freelance editors, proofreaders, cover designers and typesetters look for small presses that outsource production. Distributors and wholesalers seek publishers who need access to bookstores and libraries.

Others sell marketing and rights services. Book publicists and review services pitch publishers who want coverage for a new title. Metadata and ISBN services, royalty accounting software and print-on-demand platforms target small houses that still track royalties in a spreadsheet. Translation agencies and foreign rights agents write to publishers with titles that could sell abroad. Trade show organizers sell stands at book fairs, and book subscription box companies look for publishers to supply titles.

How do you run outreach to book publishers?

A small press is run by a few people who each do several jobs, and the inbox is checked in between editing and shipping orders. Write to the person who would own the decision, usually the publisher, the managing editor or the production manager, and say which of the three you think it is. At a house with a submissions@ address, the first reader is an assistant or an intern.

Do not use the submissions address for a sales pitch. It is for authors, and a vendor note there is the quickest way to be ignored. If the file has only a submissions@ or orders@ address for a press, call the number in the phone column and ask for the right person instead.

Mention a title or a catalog fact from their site. A printer can write that it runs short-run color books like a title on their spring list. A freelance cover designer can name a series. That detail shows you looked.

Publishing has seasons, with catalogs set months before release. A pitch for fall production lands best in spring. Mail publishers in batches of a few hundred and read the bounces between batches.

What email rules apply when you contact book publishers?

A message to a press editor counts as commercial email under CAN-SPAM. Include your company's valid postal address, and include an opt-out that works. When a publisher's staff member asks to be left off, honor it for every list you hold.

Which states and cities should you start with?

California leads with 100 publishers, 70 of which carry an email. New York follows with 63 listings and 44 emails, Florida has 48 and 34, and Texas 32 and 22. Arizona has 23 and 16, Oregon 18 and 13, North Carolina 15 and 10, and Colorado and Ohio 13 and 9 each. Minnesota has 12 and 8.

By city, New York has 44 listings, far ahead of the rest. Los Angeles has 15, Minneapolis 11, and Brooklyn and Portland 9 each. Phoenix and Washington have 8, and Miami, Houston and Dallas have 7.

New York City works as a territory of its own, and a freelancer or printer based there can fill a calendar with the listings in New York and Brooklyn. A seller who ships anywhere, such as a metadata service, can take California and New York first. Minneapolis is a smaller center worth a separate pass for sellers with a Midwest printing connection.

What is in the list

Source: ProfessionLens, November 2026. Counted 9 November 2026.

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Source: ProfessionLens, November 2026. Counted 9 November 2026.

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