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As of 4 November 2026, 7,470 books publishing & retail are based in France; 13 are hiring right now and Paris has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 7,470
- Hiring now
- 13 · 1 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Book publishers · 4,062
- Top city
- Paris · 724
- Parent market
- Media & content · 171,114
Books publishing & retail in France, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Book publishers | 4,062 | 54% |
| Online bookshops | 1,335 | 18% |
| Childrens book publishers | 1,148 | 15% |
| Bookshops & antiquarian dealers | 823 | 11% |
| Self publishing services | 351 | 5% |
| Teaching resource shops | 219 | 3% |
| Novelist author sites | 181 | 2% |
| Other books publishing & retail | 143 | 2% |
| Single book promo sites | 114 | 2% |
| Other writers & independent publishing | 108 | 1% |
| Book review blogs | 64 | 1% |
| General interest magazines | 56 | 1% |
| Webcomic & comic creators | 56 | 1% |
| Online art shops | 51 | 1% |
| Self help book publishing | 50 | 1% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 6,216 · 1 |
| 2-10 employees | 949 · 2 |
| 11-50 employees | 243 · 3 |
| 51-200 employees | 47 · 3 |
| 201-500 employees | 9 · 1 |
| 501-1000 employees | 3 · 0 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 3 · 3 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Paris | 724 | 10% |
| Roubaix | 155 | 2% |
| Clermont-Ferrand | 102 | 1% |
| Paris 05 | 101 | 1% |
| Lyon | 73 | 1% |
| Paris 15 | 62 | 1% |
| Nantes | 53 | 1% |
| Paris 09 | 51 | 1% |
| Bordeaux | 50 | 1% |
| Montpellier | 50 | 1% |
| Paris 12 | 48 | 1% |
| Paris 19 | 48 | 1% |
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The stack of books publishing & retail in France
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Other segments of media & content in France
Media & content in France, the whole market →
News & content portals · 97,004 →
User content aggregator platforms · 21,163 →
Travel blogs guides · 15,613 →
Visual art galleries & prints · 12,203 →
Writers & independent publishing · 9,695 →
Food recipe blogs · 7,273 →
Music & radio · 6,488 →
Creator channels & influencers · 6,399 →
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7,470 books publishing & retail are based in France; 13 are hiring right now and Paris has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/media_content/france/books_publishing_and_retail)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Books publishing & retail in France: questions
How many books publishing & retail are there in France?
7,470 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Media & content → Books publishing & retail → leaf niches such as book publishers, online bookshops, childrens book publishers. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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