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Top 25 Bookstores worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,296 bookstores worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 33,560 professional contacts across them, including 1,895 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers 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 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 bookstores worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12,213 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Barnes & Noble proudly serves America with approximately 600 bookstores across all fifty states, and are busy opening newly designed stores in communities nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,371 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Inaugurada em 1967 por Emidio Teles como Livraria Lê, tendo seu nome alterado em 1975 para Leitura, a rede foi uma das primeiras do Brasil no conceito megastore, que consiste em…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,048 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Borders is a place to discover fascinating new releases and reconnect with old favorites, a place to share a family story time or savor a hot cup of coffee.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 775 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Turkuvaz Medya Grubunun bir üyesi olan D&R 1996 yılının Kasım ayında kuruldu ve ilk mağazasını 1997 yılının Mayıs ayında Erenköy’de açtı.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 714 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Con 49 milioni di visitatori ogni anno, Librerie Feltrinelli è leader in Italia nei settori del libro, della musica e dell’home video.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 698 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ReaderLink is North America’s largest full-service book distributor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 642 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gramedia Store was established on February 2, 1970 by P.K.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 418 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “75 Years of Endless Discoveries For many years, we have remained close to the hearts of millions of Filipinos across generations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 411 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “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…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 378 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 12 | 326 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Välkommen till Nordens största bokhandel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 301 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in Queensland in the late 1800s, QBD Books is Australia's largest specialty book retailer, proudly Australian-owned and operated.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 264 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “De 25 ani, Cărturești redefinește așteptările pe care le avem de la o librărie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 227 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nossa história começa em 1985, em São Paulo, na Vila Madalena.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “I 2020 feiret Norli hele 130 år som bokhandelkjede.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Actualmente Librerías El Sótano cuenta con once sucursales ubicadas en la Ciudad De México, Guadalajara, León, Querétaro y Puebla.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Furet du Nord fait partie du Groupe NOSOLI regroupant les librairies Furet du Nord et Decitre.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Enseigne historique du quartier latin à Paris, Gibert Joseph est aujourd'hui la première librairie de France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cúspide es una compañía con 54 años de historia en el mercado editorial.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Suomalainen Kirjakauppa Oy on Suomen suurin ja asiakkaidensa arvostama kirjakauppaketju.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “New Zealand's largest book and stationery retailer with over 85 independently owned and operated stores throughout the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vítejte v KNIHY DOBROVSKÝ.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AKO B.V.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 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. | |||||
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: 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 bookstores.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of bookstores, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name 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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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 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 bookstores are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “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 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 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, 1,895 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.
Bookstores by location
2 lists · largest firstEvery Bookstores 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 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 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 bookstores are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,296 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?
Barnes & Noble, INC, headquartered in Worldwide, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most bookstores?
The United States leads with 313 companies, followed by France (103). Every bookstores list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most bookstores?
Sao Paulo leads with 14 headquartered companies, followed by New York (13) and Paris (12).
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 1,895 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,296 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.