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Top 25 Academic bookstores worldwide
RevenueBase identified 700 academic bookstores worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 15,158 professional contacts across them, including 2,685 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers academic bookstores worldwide, 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 19, 2026. Country and city lists for academic bookstores follow the table.
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 academic bookstores worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,785 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Follett Higher Education is a leading educational service provider and omnichannel retailer providing students, faculty and staff, parents, and fans with the course materials…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,699 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Barnes & Noble College, a Barnes & Noble Education (NYSE:BNED) company, is a leading operator of college bookstores in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,001 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tai Loy es la primera cadena de Stationery en el Perú.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 378 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With more than 70 stores throughout Southern Africa, including Botswana, Namibia and Swaziland, we have more than 100-years experience in supplying academic books to students…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 188 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “eCampus.com is a premier online retailer of new, used and electronic textbooks for sale or rent, study materials and book buyback services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BibliU is the only vertically integrated campus store and course materials partner combining proprietary digital technology, innovative access programs, flexible billing models…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since it was established in 1933, Antoine has and continues to be an undeniable landmark of knowledge and culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “86 Years and 18 Miles of Books and Counting: The History of Strand Books Where it all began: Bound by a Family The Strand was born in 1927 over on Fourth Avenue on what was then…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “80 let delovanja.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Textbook Brokers is an Arkansas headquartered, debt-free, veteran-owned company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Akademika er Norges ledende fagbokhandelkjede og en av landets største importører av fagbøker.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Promovemos la educación y la cultura a través de una amplia distribución de libros que abarcan niveles escolares, superiores, idiomas y temáticas de interés general.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Paagman is ruim 60 jaar al een begrip in Den Haag en omstreken.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Campusbokhandeln säljer ny och begagnad kurslitteratur på nätet och i butik, på eller nära campusområdena.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At GoTextbooks, we are dedicated to supporting the academic community by providing colleges and universities with a dependable and efficient textbook procurement solution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Athenaeum Boekhandel is de grootste onafhankelijke boekhandel van Amsterdam en Nederland, met winkels op het Spui, Roeterseiland en in Haarlem, en bij het Rijksmseum.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to The COOP, the campus store and official bookstore for the Harvard and MIT communities!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Innovative Content and Delivery” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Penninn Eymundsson Eymundsson is the oldest and largest bookseller in Iceland epitomizing the Icelandic bookstore.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Textbooks.com is a leading direct-to-consumer site focused on supporting learners of all ages and stages achieve their goals through the acquisition of course materials.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our publishing house stepped into the publishing industry as a small bookstore in Ankara in 1959 and has become one of the prominent bookstores in Ankara over time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Academic Books is Denmark's largest academic bookstore and one of the leading suppliers of books to the Danish business community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're your first stop for fantastic deals on millions of new and used textbooks.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Academia est une maison d’édition spécialisée dans les matières universitaires, sciences humaines en tête.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: academic bookstores. 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 academic bookstores.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of academic bookstores, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name academic bookstores. 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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Academic bookstores worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 academic bookstores, 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for academic bookstores are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “academic bookstores”. 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 academic bookstores), 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 academic bookstores, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 2,685 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 19, 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.
Academic bookstores by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery Academic bookstores list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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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 academic bookstores, 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 academic bookstores are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 700 academic bookstores worldwide 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?
Follett Higher Education, headquartered in Westchester, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most academic bookstores?
The United States leads with 178 companies. Every academic bookstores list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most academic bookstores?
Sao Paulo leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Madrid (8) and Buenos Aires (7).
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 2,685 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 700 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 19, 2026.
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About this data
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.