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Top 25 University bookstores worldwide
RevenueBase identified 529 university bookstores worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 12,580 professional contacts across them, including 2,507 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Toronto the largest hub.
This list covers university 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 22, 2026. Country and city lists for university 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 university 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 22, 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Slingshot, the baseline is; every single student, every single course material, by the first day of class, at an affordable price.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The only not-for-profit Longhorn store bringing down the cost of course materials for Longhorn students since 1896!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cognella® is redefining academic publishing by creating teacher-driven, student-centric higher education course materials in print and digital formats under three imprints…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We strive to provide the best retail experience for students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the University of Oregon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MBS Textbook Exchange was acquired by Barnes & Noble Education in 2017.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Akademika er Norges ledende fagbokhandelkjede og en av landets største importører av fagbøker.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Welcome to the University of Arizona BookStores Company Page.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “University Campus Store serving the University of Utah higher education community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Een student heeft een druk en sociaal leven.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Campusbokhandeln säljer ny och begagnad kurslitteratur på nätet och i butik, på eller nära campusområdena.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1900, University Book Store is proud to be Seattle's oldest independent bookstore and the largest supplier of officially-licensed Husky gear.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Oregon State University Bookstore, Inc.(dba OSU Beaver Store) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that operates university stores across the state of Oregon to serve the Oregon…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mission Statement:"The SFSU Bookstore is a non-profit auxiliary of San Francisco State University, existing solely to provide excellent services and products for the benefit of SF…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Adhering closely to our mission to manage the business in the interests of the student body of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, the University Book Store provides the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nationâs first public university, is a global higher education leader known for innovative teaching, research and public…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ciaco is a cooperative founded by student organizations of the UCL (Université catholique de Louvain) in 1970.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: university 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 university bookstores.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of university bookstores, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name university 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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University bookstores worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 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 university 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 university bookstores are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “university 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 university 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 university 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, 2,507 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 22, 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.
University bookstores by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery University 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 university 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 university bookstores are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 529 university 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 university bookstores?
The United States leads with 234 companies. Every university bookstores list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most university bookstores?
Toronto leads with 7 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (6) and Pretoria (6).
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 2,507 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 529 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 22, 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.