Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Online book retailers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,460 online book retailers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 38,815 professional contacts across them, including 4,176 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers online book retailers 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 20, 2026. Country and city lists for online book retailers 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 online book retailers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12,213 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,011 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “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.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,790 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With almost 300 bookshops and employing over booksellers, Waterstones is the leading high street bookseller in the UK and Ireland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,339 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundada en 1923, Casa del Libro es hoy la cadena de librerías líder en el sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 932 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 885 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ROZETKA − найбільший онлайн-ритейлер та один із найтехнологічніших e-commerce-проєктів у країні.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 750 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Leidenschaft für das Lesen und für Bücher bildet seit 1919 unser Fundament.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 706 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Repro India, as a Book Aggregator, bridges the miles between content owners (publishers) and their end customer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 698 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ReaderLink is North America’s largest full-service book distributor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 586 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With a strong heritage as a family business and firmly rooted values, the Otto Group is looking to the future with confidence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 567 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 547 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Exclusive Books has a rich history - a colourful past of peaceful protest, fascinating stories and a family of staff, all boasting eclectic and wide-ranging knowledge.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 537 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “is a retail company based out of, Japan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 386 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “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.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 301 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Met meer dan 140 winkels verspreid over Vlaanderen en een webwinkel op vind je bij Standaard Boekhandel gegarandeerd meer dan je zoekt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 301 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 295 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Powell's is an independent bookseller serving Portland, Oregon, since 1971, with four store locations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 229 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eine Welt, in der Inhalt zählt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 227 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nossa história começa em 1985, em São Paulo, na Vila Madalena.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “I 2020 feiret Norli hele 130 år som bokhandelkjede.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 216 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Orell Füssli Thalia AG ist ein operativ selbständig geführtes Buchhandelsunternehmen mit Sitz in Zürich und beschäftigt rund 850 Mitarbeitende.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 207 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gestalte mit uns die Zukunft des Online-Handels: Die BAUR-Gruppe – We-Commerce.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HKTVmall is the largest 24-hour online shopping mall in Hong Kong, providing “one-stop shop” services including online shopping, warehousing & fulfilment, digital advertising &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: online book retailers. 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 online book retailers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of online book retailers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name online book retailers. 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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Online book retailers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 online book retailers, 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 online book retailers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “online book retailers”. 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 online book retailers), 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 online book retailers, 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, 4,176 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 20, 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.
Online book retailers by location
5 lists · largest firstEvery Online 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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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 online book retailers, 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 online book retailers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,460 online book retailers 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 online book retailers?
The United States leads with 178 companies, followed by India (132) and Germany (74). Every online book retailers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most online book retailers?
Sao Paulo leads with 26 headquartered companies, followed by Dhaka (18) and London (18).
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 4,176 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,460 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 20, 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.