Orbita Media Publishing
About Orbita Media

The publisher that builds bestsellers.

Orbita Media is the modern book publisher from Hamburg, Germany's media capital. Our mission: we bring the voices of today onto the paper of tomorrow – with 700+ books and more than 2 million copies sold.

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Hamburg's Speicherstadt warehouse district at dusk, a few steps from our office at Ericusspitze
Our philosophy

Reach meets substance

We work with personalities who have something to say: creators with loyal communities, experts with real knowledge, artists and business figures with stories that move people. What matters is never just the follower count – it's the topic behind it.

Long-term partnership

We care about more than a one-off book project: book series, brand building and a growing product universe around your topic – as partners at eye level.

Dream bigger

We don't just bring books to market: translations, international editions, screen adaptations and follow-up products – the possibilities don't end at the bookshelf.

A direct line

No editorial hierarchies, no waiting loops: our communication is direct and uncomplicated – as a modern publisher we are reachable around the clock via WhatsApp.

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Our story

First the marketing. Then the books. Then the publishing house.

We started out selling other people's books. Only once we knew what a title really depends on did we make our own. And only once hundreds of them were selling did we build the publishing house around them. That order is the difference.

We sell other people's books

It starts with marketing: we move titles by other authors and publishers up the charts and learn what a book actually depends on. In the same period the first companies of our own appear, and with them more than a hundred titles. Two of the publishing houses founded back then we later sold.

We produce our own

Orbita Media is founded, and from then on everything goes into our own list. It grows past 400 titles over the years, with thousands of copies a day at times. And not only in German: our books already appear in France, Italy and Spain.

The list becomes a publishing house

We want our books across the whole trade, not just online. So we build the publishing side around them: contracts with the entire book wholesale trade, our own warehouse, our own distribution, partner printers, plus the start in the USA. From here on we work with major personalities: their books are made here, and several of them reach the SPIEGEL bestseller list.

More than 700 books

Over two million copies sold and more than 70 authors whose communities reach over 100 million people. Our programme also appears in the USA, France, Spain and Italy, each in the local language.

The craft

Every book is made in-house

Concept, editing, cover design, typesetting, print management, audiobook and marketing all sit under one roof. No step goes to a contractor who does not know the book. That makes us fast, and it lets us correct course while it still counts.

Research comes before the first line

Which topic is genuinely being searched for, which books already stand in front of it, where the gap is. That is settled before anyone starts writing. A good book on the wrong topic stays on the shelf, and we saw that often enough in the marketing years.

Title, text and cover, in that order

Topic first, then the title, then the description, then the cover. The text comes before the image because its best lines end up on the cover. Every version is measured against the titles already sitting at the top.

Editing, typesetting and print

Two rounds of editing, professional typesetting, print files built to each printer's specification, plus the audiobook with real narrators. For the author it stays one point of contact, whichever step it concerns.

We do the marketing ourselves

No agency between us and the numbers. We see the same day what works and what does not, and change it. And we do not stop when the book is out: a title is promoted here for years, not for weeks.

Formats: Paperback Hardcover E-book Audiobook
Trade and international

We do not publish in German only

Anyone can ship a book abroad. We publish there: in the language of the country, printed locally and through that country's book trade. We built the publishing side in every market we work in.

The entire German-language book trade

Contracts with the book wholesalers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Our titles are listed in the German books-in-print directory and can be ordered in any bookshop, not just online.

Our own warehouse and distribution

Orders from the trade run through our own warehouse. No middleman decides how quickly a title is restocked, and during a campaign we reprint within days instead of weeks.

USA, France, Spain, Italy

Our titles appear there in the local language and are printed in the country: an order in Chicago goes to a printer in the USA rather than being shipped from Hamburg. In the USA we now also make titles of our own with personalities from the country.

More than 50,000 bookshops

That is how far the network of wholesalers and partner printers now reaches. E-books and audiobooks come on top, delivered to thousands of stores from the large platforms to the subscription services.

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As an author, retail partner or talent for our team – we look forward to meeting you.

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