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Sample rows

10 of the 710 rows. Emails and phone numbers are masked here; the CSV has them in full.

What the list shows

California has the most listings: 113 businesses, 79 of them with an email address. New York follows with 62.

No business name is used by 10 or more listings. 697 businesses have a name used only once.

The median Google rating of the 467 rated businesses is 4.8, and 207 have a perfect 5.0.

Of the 497 email addresses, 201 (40%) are role addresses such as info@, 239 (48%) name a person and 57 (11%) are free mail.

Source: ProfessionLens, November 2026.

What is in this publisher email list?

The file has 710 Google Maps listings in the Publisher category, counted on 9 November 2026. A row is one business that publishes something: a book press, a small trade imprint, a magazine, a regional newspaper office, a music publisher or a church supply house that prints materials. Google uses the label loosely, so the file mixes print, digital and specialty publishers.

Publishers have an email on 497 rows. Each one was taken from the publisher's own website, with one address per business. Phone numbers are on 663 rows and a website on 590.

The category value is Publisher on every row. If you need only book publishers or only newspapers, you have to sort by name or by a look at the site.

How can you segment the file?

Load the CSV into a spreadsheet and filter on its columns. The category is flat, so the name column carries the most information.

Words such as press, books, magazine, news, media, music, comics or academic in the business name separate the types. A university press, a children's book imprint and a weekly newspaper want different things from a vendor, so splitting by these words saves wasted sends.

State and city serve vendors who work locally. A printer or a bindery usually quotes within a delivery radius, so a city filter such as Grand Rapids or Berkeley produces a list of nearby presses. The website column lets you check what a publisher actually puts out before you write.

• Name keywords: press and books for book houses, news and times for papers, music for sheet and catalog publishers.
• State and city: pair a printer or distributor with publishers in its delivery area.
• Email type: 239 named-person addresses for editors and owners, 201 role addresses for the general inbox.
• Website: look at the catalog or masthead to size the publisher.

Who buys a publisher email list?

Printers and print on demand services want publishers with regular titles. Freelance editors, proofreaders, cover designers and typesetters look for houses that outsource. Book distributors and wholesalers reach independent presses that need shelf access. Rights and royalty software vendors sell accounting tools. Marketing services such as review outreach, book tour organizers and ad networks pitch small presses with no in-house promotion team.

Authors and literary agents sometimes buy a list of publishers to submit manuscripts, and translators look for houses that acquire foreign titles. Paper and ink suppliers, trade show organizers and ISBN or metadata service providers also fit.

How do you run outreach to publishers?

Small publishers often have a handful of staff, and the editor or owner reads the main inbox. Publisher emails split into 239 named-person addresses and 201 role addresses. A named address can start with the editor's first name. A role address such as info@ or submissions@ often goes to an assistant or a rotating intern, so ask who handles production, sales or acquisitions.

Publishers are reading and writing people, so a plain note works better than a styled one. A printer should state its formats and minimum runs. A cover designer should link one relevant sample. An author who submits should read the guidelines on the publisher's website first and follow them, since many houses refuse unsolicited manuscripts and will discard a note that ignores their rules.

Use the website column to see the catalog and mention a specific title. Dedupe by domain, because imprints of one parent may share a site. Send publishers a small first batch and read the bounces.

What email rules apply when you contact publishers?

A commercial email to a publishing house needs a valid physical postal address for your business, and a working opt-out that you honor. A press that asks you to stop mailing its submissions inbox should be removed from every future send.

Which states and cities should you start with?

California holds the most publishers, 113 listings with 79 emails. New York has 62 listings and 43 emails, Florida 48 and 34, Texas 46 and 32. Next are Ohio (25 listings, 18 emails), Illinois (22, 15), North Carolina (20, 14), Tennessee (16, 11), Arizona (15, 10) and Maryland (15, 10).

New York City has 34 listings, well ahead of Los Angeles, Berkeley and Chicago with 13 each. Baltimore has 12, Austin 10, Grand Rapids 9, Nashville 8, and Columbus and Houston 7 each.

A distributor or sales rep can cover New York and Baltimore on the East coast. A printer with a plant in the Midwest can start with Chicago, Grand Rapids and Columbus. The email count sets how many publishers an email campaign reaches, and the phone column covers the rest.

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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