Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked bookstore chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Barnes & Noble and New England Comics sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barnes & Noble | - | -0.2% |
| 2 | New England Comics | - | -26.7% |
- Barnes & Noble
- Brookline Booksmith
- Harvard Coop
- Beacon Hill Books & Cafe
- Harvard Book Store
- Harrison's Comics
- Northeastern University Bookstore
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
111 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 22 of the 111 stores (20%); 90 of the 94 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are bookstores, the same share as across Massachusetts.
- Barnes & Noble (14)
- Brookline Booksmith (2)
- Harvard Coop (2)
- Beacon Hill Books & Cafe (1)
- Harvard Book Store (1)
- Harrison's Comics (1)
- Northeastern University Bookstore (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Barnes & Noble 14
- 2 New England Comics 3
- 3 Harvard Coop 2
- 4 Brookline Booksmith 2
- 5 The Book Shop of Beverly Farms 1
- 6 The Million Year Picnic 1
- 7 Silver Moon Comics & Collectibles 1
- 8 Salem State University Bookstore 1
- 9 Hub Comics 1
- 10 Molly's Bookstore 1
- 11 LaLa Books 1
- 12 The Bookstore of Gloucester 1
- 13 Pop Culture Cards Comics and Games 1
- 14 The Purple Couch Bookshop 1
- 15 DeColores Christian Books 1
- 16 Whitelam Books 1
- 17 MFA Bookstore & Shop 1
- 18 Brattle Book Shop 1
- 19 Side Quest Books & Games 1
- 20 Counterplay Comics 1
- 21 Ten Trees Books 1
- 22 UNH Bookstore 1
- 23 The Book Rack 1
- 24 MIT Press Bookstore 1
- 25 Smitten 1
- 26 Pauline Books and Media 1
- 27 RiverRun Bookstore 1
- 28 Mass College of Art Supply & Book Store 1
- 29 Hudson Booksellers 1
- 30 Frugal Bookstore 1
- 31 MIT Coop 1
- 32 Manchester By the Book 1
- 33 Park Street Books & Toys 1
- 34 The Comic Stop 1
- 35 Barrow Book Store 1
- 36 Paper Asylum 1
- 37 All She Wrote Books 1
- 38 Grolier Poetry Book Shop 1
- 39 Sheafe Street Books 1
- 40 Rubber Chicken Comics 1
- 41 Andover Bookstore 1
- 42 Dogtown Book Shop 1
- 43 Word on the Street 1
- 44 Rodney's Bookstore 1
- 45 Friar Tuck's Comics & Collectibles 1
- 46 Just Book-ish 1
- 47 Pyramid Books 1
- 48 The Next Chapter Books and More 1
- 49 Tidal Pages Ipswich 1
- 50 Excelsior Comics and Games 1
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