Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Used book retailers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 818 used book retailers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 10,941 professional contacts across them, including 1,655 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers used 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 22, 2026. Country and city lists for used 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 used book retailers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,110 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Be fair to customers and our employees, promote literacy, be kind to the environment and remain financially viable so we may continue.”, Our Mission Statement in the words of HPB…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 340 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2002, World of Books is a sustainable online destination for book lovers, a place to buy and sell both preloved and new books with ease and purpose.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 295 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Powell's is an independent bookseller serving Portland, Oregon, since 1971, with four store locations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 207 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Better World Books is a for-profit socially conscious business and a global online bookseller that collects and sells new and used books online matching each purchase with a book…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vítejte v KNIHY DOBROVSKÝ.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tisíce príbehov.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Green Apple Books is a trio of independent bookstores in San Francisco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bookmans Entertainment Exchange buys, sells, and trades used books, music, movies, video games & musical instruments and more with six locations and a warehouse for online sales…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AbeBooks, an Amazon company, is a remarkable place to work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “London's iconic independent bookshop.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bookchor is India’s fastest-growing sustainable book marketplace, making reading affordable and accessible to everyone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Readings is an independent bookseller with several branches located around Melbourne, plus an online shop.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 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. | |||||
| 19 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Inspired in part by a team of independent booksellers, and in part by the fantastical life of Harry Hartog himself.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Biblio was founded in 2003 by an internet bookseller and former bookstore owner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Alibris is the premier online marketplace for independent sellers of new and used books, music, and movies, as well as rare and collectible titles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Societatea Librăriile Humanitas este parte a Grupului Humanitas alături de Editura Humanitas, Humanitas Fiction și Humanitas Digital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tezeusz.pl to lider rynku antykwarycznego w Polsce, z siedzibą w Krakowie oraz siecią 14 placówek w największych miastach kraju.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recyclivre.com est le 1er vendeur français engagé de livres d’occasion en ligne.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Bouquinerie du Sart est une entreprise sociale qui collecte, trie et revend des livres d'occasion (60% via le e-commerce - 40% retail classique).” 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: used 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 used book retailers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of used book retailers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name used 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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Used book retailers 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 used 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 used book retailers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “used 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 used 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 used 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, 1,655 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.
Used book retailers by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery Used 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 used 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 used book retailers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 818 used 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?
Books A Million, headquartered in Birmingham, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most used book retailers?
The United States leads with 204 companies. Every used book retailers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most used book retailers?
Sao Paulo leads with 13 headquartered companies, followed by Paris (11) and London (10).
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 1,655 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 818 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.