Growth
Books-A-Million against its category
The biggest tracked US bookstore chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Books-A-Million's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barnes & Noble | +0.2% |
| 2 | Books-A-Million | +4.5% |
| 3 | Half Price Books | -4.1% |
| 4 | Deseret Book | +14.6% |
| 5 | 2nd & Charles | +8.8% |
| 6 | Mardel Christian & Education | -8.3% |
| 7 | Kinokuniya | -14.9% |
| 8 | McKay Used Books & CD's | -11.8% |
| 9 | Joseph-Beth Booksellers | -3.8% |
| 10 | Powell's Books | -3.0% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
231 tracked Books-A-Million locations across 31 US states. Florida, Alabama, and Georgia hold 28% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- Florida 30
- Alabama 20
- Georgia 15
- South Carolina 14
- Tennessee 14
- North Carolina 12
- Ohio 12
- Pennsylvania 12
- Texas 12
- Virginia 12
- West Virginia 10
- Mississippi 9
- Indiana 7
- Louisiana 7
- Maryland 7
- Kentucky 5
- Kansas 4
- Arkansas 3
- Iowa 3
- Illinois 3
- Maine 3
- New Hampshire 3
- Connecticut 2
- Michigan 2
- Missouri 2
- New Jersey 2
- Wisconsin 2
- Delaware 1
- Minnesota 1
- Oklahoma 1
- South Dakota 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Books-A-Million
Tracked chains Books-A-Million customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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