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Top 25 Book retailers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,138 company matches for book retailers worldwide as of November 2026 and tracks 41,168 professional contacts across them, including 4,772 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers company matches for book retailers worldwide, found by RevenueBase SmartSearch using the meaning of business descriptions in its company graph at Exact. Ranked by professionals tracked, largest first. Rows show recorded descriptions where available, Exact search membership and the snapshot date. Data refreshed November 6, 2026. Country and city lists for book retailers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase SmartSearch, 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 book retailers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13,112 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Barnes & Noble proudly serves America with approximately 600 bookstores across all fifty states, and are busy opening newly designed stores in communities nationwide.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 2 | 2,197 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Books-A-Million, Inc, is the second-largest book retailer in the nation, operating more than 200 stores in 32 states and online at Booksamillion.com.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 3 | 2,027 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “With almost 300 bookshops and employing over booksellers, Waterstones is the leading high street bookseller in the UK and Ireland.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 4 | 1,778 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “The world is reading.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 5 | 1,567 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Fundada en 1923, Casa del Libro es hoy la cadena de librerías líder en el sector.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 6 | 852 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Die Leidenschaft für das Lesen und für Bücher bildet seit 1919 unser Fundament.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 7 | 763 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Repro India, as a Book Aggregator, bridges the miles between content owners (publishers) and their end customer.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 8 | 734 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “ReaderLink is North America’s largest full-service book distributor.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 9 | 529 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “INTERFORUM, filiale du groupe EDITIS, exerce deux fonctions principales : la commercialisation des ouvrages d’une centaine d’éditeurs appartenant au groupe EDITIS ou indépendants…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 10 | 461 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “ThriftBooks is the world’s largest online, independent seller of used books, having sold more than 160 million used and new books since its inception.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 11 | 430 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “I 95 butiker och på nätet erbjuder Akademibokhandeln ett stort och väl sammansatt sortiment av böcker samt inspirerande varor för alla som vill planera och förvara, skriva och…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 12 | 422 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “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…” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 13 | 403 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Ingram Book Group is a wholesale distributor of books, periodicals and audio books to booksellers, librarians, and specialty retailers.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 14 | 369 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Välkommen till Nordens största bokhandel.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 15 | 329 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Met meer dan 140 winkels verspreid over Vlaanderen en een webwinkel op vind je bij Standaard Boekhandel gegarandeerd meer dan je zoekt.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 16 | 321 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Powell's is an independent bookseller serving Portland, Oregon, since 1971, with four store locations.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 17 | 312 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Founded in Queensland in the late 1800s, QBD Books is Australia's largest specialty book retailer, proudly Australian-owned and operated.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 18 | 312 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Established in 1998, Bargain Books is South Africa’s leading discount book retailer with 80 plus stores in all 9 provinces.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 19 | 280 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Nossa história começa em 1985, em São Paulo, na Vila Madalena.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 20 | 268 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “A Travessa é uma livraria carioca que busca promover o encontro do leitor com o livro e com a sua cidade.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 21 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Eine Welt, in der Inhalt zählt.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 22 | 226 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Die Orell Füssli Thalia AG ist ein operativ selbständig geführtes Buchhandelsunternehmen mit Sitz in Zürich und beschäftigt rund 850 Mitarbeitende.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 23 | 218 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Furet du Nord fait partie du Groupe NOSOLI regroupant les librairies Furet du Nord et Decitre.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 24 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “Als führendes Barsortiment ist Libri ein zentrales Bindeglied zwischen Verlag, stationären Buchhandel und Onlinehandel.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
| 25 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Exact match “I 2020 feiret Norli hele 130 år som bokhandelkjede.” Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Nov 6, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase | |||||
RevenueBase SmartSearch
Describe a niche business in your own words. RevenueBase SmartSearch compares the meaning of your description with company business descriptions compiled in the RevenueBase company graph. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control how closely companies must fit.
This list uses Exact for “book retailers”. Each Exact match badge shows membership in that saved search; it is not an individual similarity score or a service-quality rating. Recorded descriptions are shown where available.
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Book retailers worldwide at a glance
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How this list was built
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- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase SmartSearch, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for book retailers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Company records worldwide whose business descriptions match “book retailers” by meaning at the Exact setting. Descriptions are compiled in the RevenueBase company graph from public websites, profiles and company information where available; they are not guaranteed quotations from the company's website.
- RevenueBase SmartSearch
- Describe a niche company in your own words to find businesses by meaning. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control the breadth of RevenueBase SmartSearch. This saved list uses Exact. Each row's Exact match badge shows inclusion in that search, not an individual score or a service-quality judgment.
- Public preview
- The public preview omits records without a verified work email. Dataset totals and geographic summaries describe the full matched records before these preview filters.
- Match quality
- RevenueBase's August 25, 2026 study assessed 4,198 description/company pairs across matching settings. The publisher reports 86% good or better at Exact. This evaluates the method across queries; it does not audit this individual list. Recorded company descriptions, where available, help you judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built and what the study measures.
- 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 displayed company carries at least one verified work email. RevenueBase tracks 4,772 professional contacts with verified work emails across the full matched dataset. 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 November 6, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Record context
- Company records and descriptions can change. Check the company's website for its current services and locations.
Book retailers by location
5 lists · largest firstEvery Book retailers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase SmartSearch?
RevenueBase SmartSearch finds niche companies by the meaning of their business descriptions in the RevenueBase company graph. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control how closely companies must fit your description. This list uses Exact for “book retailers”; each Exact match badge shows search membership, not an individual similarity or quality score.
How many book retailers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,138 company matches for book retailers worldwide as of November 2026, using the meaning of business descriptions at Exact. This is the recorded matched set in the RevenueBase company graph.
What is the largest company on this list?
Barnes & Noble, INC tops the displayed preview by professional contacts tracked in RevenueBase. Recorded headquarters appear in the company rows.
Which country has the most book retailers?
The United States leads with 169 companies, followed by Germany (91) and the United Kingdom (72). Every book retailers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most book retailers?
Sao Paulo leads with 20 company records, followed by London (17) and Dhaka (11).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work limited free results with 500 credits to start. Upgrading provides access to the 4,772 professional contacts with verified work emails tracked across these 1,138 companies; direct dials are available where recorded.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on November 6, 2026.
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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 SmartSearch, 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.
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Top 25 book retailers worldwide
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Describe the businesses you want in your own words. RevenueBase SmartSearch matches company descriptions by meaning.
RevenueBase records 1,138 matching company records for book retailers worldwide, with 41,168 tracked contacts and 4,772 verified work emails.
This public preview shows 25 selected records ordered by tracked contacts. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds company descriptions that match by meaning at Exact. Snapshot: November 6, 2026.
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Top 25 book retailers worldwide
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
| # | Company | Headquarters on record | Reported employees | RevenueBase SmartSearch | Tracked contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Barnes & Noble, INCbarnesandnoble.comHQ: NY, United StatesReported employees: 10001+ | NY, United States | 10001+ | Exact match | 13,112 contacts → |
“Barnes & Noble proudly serves America with approximately 600 bookstores across all fifty states, and are busy opening newly designed stores in communities nationwide.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 2 |  Books A Millionbooksamillion.comHQ: Birmingham, AL, United StatesReported employees: 5,001-10,000 | Birmingham, AL, United States | 5,001-10,000 | Exact match | 2,197 contacts → |
“Books-A-Million, Inc, is the second-largest book retailer in the nation, operating more than 200 stores in 32 states and online at Booksamillion.com.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 3 |  Waterstoneswaterstones.comHQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | London, United Kingdom | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 2,027 contacts → |
“With almost 300 bookshops and employing over booksellers, Waterstones is the leading high street bookseller in the UK and Ireland.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 4 |  Ingram Content Groupingramcontent.comHQ: La Vergne, TN, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | La Vergne, TN, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 1,778 contacts → |
“The world is reading.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 5 |  Casa DEL Libromtrbio.comHQ: Madrid, SpainReported employees: 501-1,000 | Madrid, Spain | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 1,567 contacts → |
“Fundada en 1923, Casa del Libro es hoy la cadena de librerías líder en el sector.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 6 |  Thalia Bücher Gmbhunternehmen.thalia.deHQ: Hagen, GermanyReported employees: 5,001-10,000 | Hagen, Germany | 5,001-10,000 | Exact match | 852 contacts → |
“Die Leidenschaft für das Lesen und für Bücher bildet seit 1919 unser Fundament.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 7 |  Repro India Limitedreproindialtd.comHQ: Mumbai, IndiaReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Mumbai, India | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 763 contacts → |
“Repro India, as a Book Aggregator, bridges the miles between content owners (publishers) and their end customer.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 8 |  Readerlinkreaderlink.comHQ: Oak Brook, VA, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Oak Brook, VA, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 734 contacts → |
“ReaderLink is North America’s largest full-service book distributor.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 9 |  Interforuminterforum.frHQ: FranceReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | France | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 529 contacts → |
“INTERFORUM, filiale du groupe EDITIS, exerce deux fonctions principales : la commercialisation des ouvrages d’une centaine d’éditeurs appartenant au groupe EDITIS ou indépendants…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 10 |  Thriftbooksthriftbooks.comHQ: Seattle, WA, United StatesReported employees: 501-1,000 | Seattle, WA, United States | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 461 contacts → |
“ThriftBooks is the world’s largest online, independent seller of used books, having sold more than 160 million used and new books since its inception.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 11 |  Akademibokhandelnakademibokhandeln.seHQ: Stockholm, SwedenReported employees: 501-1,000 | Stockholm, Sweden | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 430 contacts → |
“I 95 butiker och på nätet erbjuder Akademibokhandeln ett stort och väl sammansatt sortiment av böcker samt inspirerande varor för alla som vill planera och förvara, skriva och…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 12 |  VAN Schaik Bookstorevanschaik.comHQ: Cape Town, South AfricaReported employees: 201-500 | Cape Town, South Africa | 201-500 | Exact match | 422 contacts → |
“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…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 13 | Ingram Book Companyingrambook.com HQ: United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 403 contacts → |
“Ingram Book Group is a wholesale distributor of books, periodicals and audio books to booksellers, librarians, and specialty retailers.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 14 |  Adlibrisadlibris.comHQ: Stockholm, SwedenReported employees: 201-500 | Stockholm, Sweden | 201-500 | Exact match | 369 contacts → |
“Välkommen till Nordens största bokhandel.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 15 |  Standaard Boekhandelstandaardboekhandel.beHQ: Sint-niklaas, BelgiumReported employees: 201-500 | Sint-niklaas, Belgium | 201-500 | Exact match | 329 contacts → |
“Met meer dan 140 winkels verspreid over Vlaanderen en een webwinkel op vind je bij Standaard Boekhandel gegarandeerd meer dan je zoekt.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 16 |  Powell's Bookspowells.comHQ: Portland, OR, United StatesReported employees: 501-1,000 | Portland, OR, United States | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 321 contacts → |
“Powell's is an independent bookseller serving Portland, Oregon, since 1971, with four store locations.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 17 |  QBD Booksqbd.com.auHQ: Richlands, AustraliaReported employees: 501-1,000 | Richlands, Australia | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 312 contacts → |
“Founded in Queensland in the late 1800s, QBD Books is Australia's largest specialty book retailer, proudly Australian-owned and operated.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 18 |  Bargain Booksbargainbooks.co.zaHQ: Cape Town, South AfricaReported employees: 501-1,000 | Cape Town, South Africa | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 312 contacts → |
“Established in 1998, Bargain Books is South Africa’s leading discount book retailer with 80 plus stores in all 9 provinces.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 19 |  Livraria DA Vilalivrariadavila.com.brHQ: Sao Paulo, BrazilReported employees: 201-500 | Sao Paulo, Brazil | 201-500 | Exact match | 280 contacts → |
“Nossa história começa em 1985, em São Paulo, na Vila Madalena.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 20 |  Livraria DA Travessatravessa.com.brHQ: Rio De Janeiro, BrazilReported employees: 201-500 | Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | 201-500 | Exact match | 268 contacts → |
“A Travessa é uma livraria carioca que busca promover o encontro do leitor com o livro e com a sua cidade.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 21 |  Thalia Buch & Medien Gmbhthalia.atHQ: Linz, AustriaReported employees: 501-1,000 | Linz, Austria | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 247 contacts → |
“Eine Welt, in der Inhalt zählt.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 22 |  Orell Füssli Thalia AGorellfuessli.chHQ: Zürich, SwitzerlandReported employees: 501-1,000 | Zürich, Switzerland | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 226 contacts → |
“Die Orell Füssli Thalia AG ist ein operativ selbständig geführtes Buchhandelsunternehmen mit Sitz in Zürich und beschäftigt rund 850 Mitarbeitende.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 23 |  Furet DU Nordfuret.comHQ: Tourcoing, FranceReported employees: 501-1,000 | Tourcoing, France | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 218 contacts → |
“Furet du Nord fait partie du Groupe NOSOLI regroupant les librairies Furet du Nord et Decitre.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 24 |  Libri Gmbhlibri.deHQ: Hamburg, GermanyReported employees: 501-1,000 | Hamburg, Germany | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 204 contacts → |
“Als führendes Barsortiment ist Libri ein zentrales Bindeglied zwischen Verlag, stationären Buchhandel und Onlinehandel.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 25 | Norli ASnorli.no HQ: NorwayReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Norway | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 180 contacts → |
“I 2020 feiret Norli hele 130 år som bokhandelkjede.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
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Book retailers: dataset insights
November 6, 2026These summaries describe recorded coverage in this saved dataset. This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Reported company sizes
1,055 records in the displayed employee bands.
83 matching records are outside the displayed bands or do not have a displayed size. Bars show shares of the displayed bands.
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole country list rather than for Worldwide, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Worldwide, over 1,138 companies.
How this company list was built
Describe a niche in your own words: companies installing commercial solar, or manufacturers of sustainable packaging. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds companies whose compiled business descriptions match by meaning. This list is one saved example to adapt.
Where the company descriptions come from
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
RevenueBase SmartSearch matching settings
- Exact
- Closest fits to the business described.
- Similar
- Similar businesses with a wider range of fits.
- Related
- Related businesses in and around the category.
- Broad
- A broader set of businesses connected to the description.
RevenueBase SmartSearch · Exact match identifies inclusion in this search's closest semantic matching setting. It is not a per-company confidence score, a literal keyword match, or a quality endorsement.
Selection, ordering and scope
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Recorded company descriptions support research; check company websites for current services. The selected preview is ordered by tracked contacts and is not a list of the best service providers.
Snapshot: November 6, 2026.
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its September 3, 2026 published methodology describes a graph of 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts; these platform figures differ from this page's totals. Published methodology ↗
Book retailers by location
5 lists · largest firstEvery Book retailers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Questions about this company list
What does Exact match mean for book retailers?
The separate RevenueBase SmartSearch column identifies inclusion at the closest semantic matching preset. It is not a literal keyword match, a per-company confidence score or a quality endorsement. Changing the search form opens a new search in RevenueBase; it does not reclassify these saved rows.
How many book retailers did RevenueBase find worldwide?
The saved snapshot records 1,138 matching company records, 41,168 tracked contacts and 4,772 verified emails. The public preview displays 25 selected records.
Where do the company descriptions come from?
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
How are the public companies ordered?
The selected public records are ordered by contacts tracked in RevenueBase, highest first. Contact coverage is a prospecting measure, not an assessment of the company's services or quality.
How can I get contact information?
Select a company's contact count to open its filtered contacts in RevenueBase. Free signup is required and includes 500 credits and limited free results. Verified emails, direct dials and mobile numbers depend on available coverage.
How current is this list?
Snapshot: November 6, 2026. Review each company's website for current services and locations. A recorded business description does not establish that every company offers every service named in the search.
What do headquarters and employee bands mean?
These are recorded company-level fields, rather than a map of every branch or a count of specialists. Missing headquarters or employee bands are labeled; older records may show a location separately from recorded headquarters.
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RevenueBase Data Team. Top 25 book retailers worldwide. Snapshot: November 6, 2026. https://revenuebase.ai/companies/browse/book-retailers.
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RevenueBase records 1,138 matching company records for book retailers worldwide, with 41,168 tracked contacts and 4,772 verified work emails.
This public preview shows 25 selected records ordered by tracked contacts. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds company descriptions that match by meaning at Exact. Snapshot: November 6, 2026.
RevenueBase compiles business descriptions for niche-company discovery; each row shows a recorded excerpt where available. Adapt this search to find the companies and contacts you want.
Top 25 book retailers worldwide
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
| # | Company | Headquarters on record | Reported employees | RevenueBase SmartSearch | Tracked contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barnes & Noble, INCbarnesandnoble.com HQ: NY, United StatesReported employees: 10001+ | NY, United States | 10001+ | Exact match | 13,112 contacts → |
“Barnes & Noble proudly serves America with approximately 600 bookstores across all fifty states, and are busy opening newly designed stores in communities nationwide.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 2 | Books A Millionbooksamillion.com HQ: Birmingham, AL, United StatesReported employees: 5,001-10,000 | Birmingham, AL, United States | 5,001-10,000 | Exact match | 2,197 contacts → |
“Books-A-Million, Inc, is the second-largest book retailer in the nation, operating more than 200 stores in 32 states and online at Booksamillion.com.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 3 | Waterstoneswaterstones.com HQ: London, United KingdomReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | London, United Kingdom | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 2,027 contacts → |
“With almost 300 bookshops and employing over booksellers, Waterstones is the leading high street bookseller in the UK and Ireland.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 4 | Ingram Content Groupingramcontent.com HQ: La Vergne, TN, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | La Vergne, TN, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 1,778 contacts → |
“The world is reading.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 5 | Casa DEL Libromtrbio.com HQ: Madrid, SpainReported employees: 501-1,000 | Madrid, Spain | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 1,567 contacts → |
“Fundada en 1923, Casa del Libro es hoy la cadena de librerías líder en el sector.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 6 | Thalia Bücher Gmbhunternehmen.thalia.de HQ: Hagen, GermanyReported employees: 5,001-10,000 | Hagen, Germany | 5,001-10,000 | Exact match | 852 contacts → |
“Die Leidenschaft für das Lesen und für Bücher bildet seit 1919 unser Fundament.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 7 | Repro India Limitedreproindialtd.com HQ: Mumbai, IndiaReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Mumbai, India | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 763 contacts → |
“Repro India, as a Book Aggregator, bridges the miles between content owners (publishers) and their end customer.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 8 | Readerlinkreaderlink.com HQ: Oak Brook, VA, United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Oak Brook, VA, United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 734 contacts → |
“ReaderLink is North America’s largest full-service book distributor.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 9 | Interforuminterforum.fr HQ: FranceReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | France | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 529 contacts → |
“INTERFORUM, filiale du groupe EDITIS, exerce deux fonctions principales : la commercialisation des ouvrages d’une centaine d’éditeurs appartenant au groupe EDITIS ou indépendants…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 10 | Thriftbooksthriftbooks.com HQ: Seattle, WA, United StatesReported employees: 501-1,000 | Seattle, WA, United States | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 461 contacts → |
“ThriftBooks is the world’s largest online, independent seller of used books, having sold more than 160 million used and new books since its inception.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 11 | Akademibokhandelnakademibokhandeln.se HQ: Stockholm, SwedenReported employees: 501-1,000 | Stockholm, Sweden | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 430 contacts → |
“I 95 butiker och på nätet erbjuder Akademibokhandeln ett stort och väl sammansatt sortiment av böcker samt inspirerande varor för alla som vill planera och förvara, skriva och…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 12 | VAN Schaik Bookstorevanschaik.com HQ: Cape Town, South AfricaReported employees: 201-500 | Cape Town, South Africa | 201-500 | Exact match | 422 contacts → |
“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…” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 13 | Ingram Book Companyingrambook.com HQ: United StatesReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | United States | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 403 contacts → |
“Ingram Book Group is a wholesale distributor of books, periodicals and audio books to booksellers, librarians, and specialty retailers.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 14 | Adlibrisadlibris.com HQ: Stockholm, SwedenReported employees: 201-500 | Stockholm, Sweden | 201-500 | Exact match | 369 contacts → |
“Välkommen till Nordens största bokhandel.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 15 | Standaard Boekhandelstandaardboekhandel.be HQ: Sint-niklaas, BelgiumReported employees: 201-500 | Sint-niklaas, Belgium | 201-500 | Exact match | 329 contacts → |
“Met meer dan 140 winkels verspreid over Vlaanderen en een webwinkel op vind je bij Standaard Boekhandel gegarandeerd meer dan je zoekt.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 16 | Powell's Bookspowells.com HQ: Portland, OR, United StatesReported employees: 501-1,000 | Portland, OR, United States | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 321 contacts → |
“Powell's is an independent bookseller serving Portland, Oregon, since 1971, with four store locations.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 17 | QBD Booksqbd.com.au HQ: Richlands, AustraliaReported employees: 501-1,000 | Richlands, Australia | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 312 contacts → |
“Founded in Queensland in the late 1800s, QBD Books is Australia's largest specialty book retailer, proudly Australian-owned and operated.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 18 | Bargain Booksbargainbooks.co.za HQ: Cape Town, South AfricaReported employees: 501-1,000 | Cape Town, South Africa | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 312 contacts → |
“Established in 1998, Bargain Books is South Africa’s leading discount book retailer with 80 plus stores in all 9 provinces.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 19 | Livraria DA Vilalivrariadavila.com.br HQ: Sao Paulo, BrazilReported employees: 201-500 | Sao Paulo, Brazil | 201-500 | Exact match | 280 contacts → |
“Nossa história começa em 1985, em São Paulo, na Vila Madalena.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 20 | Livraria DA Travessatravessa.com.br HQ: Rio De Janeiro, BrazilReported employees: 201-500 | Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | 201-500 | Exact match | 268 contacts → |
“A Travessa é uma livraria carioca que busca promover o encontro do leitor com o livro e com a sua cidade.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 21 | Thalia Buch & Medien Gmbhthalia.at HQ: Linz, AustriaReported employees: 501-1,000 | Linz, Austria | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 247 contacts → |
“Eine Welt, in der Inhalt zählt.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 22 | Orell Füssli Thalia AGorellfuessli.ch HQ: Zürich, SwitzerlandReported employees: 501-1,000 | Zürich, Switzerland | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 226 contacts → |
“Die Orell Füssli Thalia AG ist ein operativ selbständig geführtes Buchhandelsunternehmen mit Sitz in Zürich und beschäftigt rund 850 Mitarbeitende.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 23 | Furet DU Nordfuret.com HQ: Tourcoing, FranceReported employees: 501-1,000 | Tourcoing, France | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 218 contacts → |
“Furet du Nord fait partie du Groupe NOSOLI regroupant les librairies Furet du Nord et Decitre.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 24 | Libri Gmbhlibri.de HQ: Hamburg, GermanyReported employees: 501-1,000 | Hamburg, Germany | 501-1,000 | Exact match | 204 contacts → |
“Als führendes Barsortiment ist Libri ein zentrales Bindeglied zwischen Verlag, stationären Buchhandel und Onlinehandel.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
| 25 | Norli ASnorli.no HQ: NorwayReported employees: 1,001-5,000 | Norway | 1,001-5,000 | Exact match | 180 contacts → |
“I 2020 feiret Norli hele 130 år som bokhandelkjede.” Recorded description excerpt · November 6, 2026Open company data in RevenueBase ↗Free signup required. | |||||
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Book retailers: dataset insights
November 6, 2026These summaries describe recorded coverage in this saved dataset. This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Reported company sizes
1,055 records in the displayed employee bands.
83 matching records are outside the displayed bands or do not have a displayed size. Bars show shares of the displayed bands.
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole country list rather than for Worldwide, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Worldwide, over 1,138 companies.
How this company list was built
Describe a niche in your own words: companies installing commercial solar, or manufacturers of sustainable packaging. RevenueBase SmartSearch finds companies whose compiled business descriptions match by meaning. This list is one saved example to adapt.
Where the company descriptions come from
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
RevenueBase SmartSearch matching settings
- Exact
- Closest fits to the business described.
- Similar
- Similar businesses with a wider range of fits.
- Related
- Related businesses in and around the category.
- Broad
- A broader set of businesses connected to the description.
RevenueBase SmartSearch · Exact match identifies inclusion in this search's closest semantic matching setting. It is not a per-company confidence score, a literal keyword match, or a quality endorsement.
Selection, ordering and scope
The public list shows selected company records with contact and verified-email coverage. Reported employee bands provide separate company-size context.
This page is derived from saved source records; per-contact mobile coverage and email-recency results are not established by this snapshot.
Recorded company descriptions support research; check company websites for current services. The selected preview is ordered by tracked contacts and is not a list of the best service providers.
Snapshot: November 6, 2026.
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its September 3, 2026 published methodology describes a graph of 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts; these platform figures differ from this page's totals. Published methodology ↗
Book retailers by location
5 lists · largest firstEvery Book retailers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
Questions about this company list
What does Exact match mean for book retailers?
The separate RevenueBase SmartSearch column identifies inclusion at the closest semantic matching preset. It is not a literal keyword match, a per-company confidence score or a quality endorsement. Changing the search form opens a new search in RevenueBase; it does not reclassify these saved rows.
How many book retailers did RevenueBase find worldwide?
The saved snapshot records 1,138 matching company records, 41,168 tracked contacts and 4,772 verified emails. The public preview displays 25 selected records.
Where do the company descriptions come from?
RevenueBase compiles company information from public sources, including company websites and public professional profiles such as LinkedIn, alongside information supplied by companies. The short recorded excerpt shown here is separate from the complete business description used for matching; individual source URLs and collection dates are not provided in this public snapshot.
How are the public companies ordered?
The selected public records are ordered by contacts tracked in RevenueBase, highest first. Contact coverage is a prospecting measure, not an assessment of the company's services or quality.
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Snapshot: November 6, 2026. Review each company's website for current services and locations. A recorded business description does not establish that every company offers every service named in the search.
What do headquarters and employee bands mean?
These are recorded company-level fields, rather than a map of every branch or a count of specialists. Missing headquarters or employee bands are labeled; older records may show a location separately from recorded headquarters.
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RevenueBase Data Team. Top 25 book retailers worldwide. Snapshot: November 6, 2026. https://revenuebase.ai/companies/browse/book-retailers.
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