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. Downtown Comics and Books-A-Million sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown Comics | - | +16.4% |
| 2 | Books-A-Million | - | +3.4% |
| 3 | Barnes & Noble | - | +0.4% |
| 4 | Half Price Books | - | +0.1% |
- Barnes & Noble
- Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore
- Half Price Books
- Books-A-Million
- Summit Sports, Comics and Games
- University Bookstore
- Hammes Bookstore and Café
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
179 tracked store locations in Indiana. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 37 of the 179 stores (21%); 136 of the 144 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked retail stores here are bookstores, the same share as across the United States.
- Barnes & Noble (17)
- Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore (2)
- Half Price Books (8)
- Books-A-Million (7)
- Summit Sports, Comics and Games (1)
- University Bookstore (1)
- Hammes Bookstore and Café (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Barnes & Noble 17
- 2 Half Price Books 8
- 3 Books-A-Million 7
- 4 Downtown Comics 3
- 5 Living Truth 2
- 6 Hometown Comics Greenfield 2
- 7 Red Dog Books 2
- 8 Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore 2
- 9 Second Flight Books 1
- 10 Downtown Comics in Avon 1
- 11 Von's Book Shop 1
- 12 Trine University Bookstore 1
- 13 Turn the Page Books and Gifts 1
- 14 Creative Comics 1
- 15 The Authors' Patch Bookstore 1
- 16 Caveat Emptor 1
- 17 Friends of the Library Bookstore 1
- 18 Midwest Manga 1
- 19 Comics Elite 1
- 20 Pen & Pink 1
- 21 Novel HeARTs 1
- 22 Libreria Cristiana Varela 1
- 23 Bookshelf 1
- 24 Next Page Bookstore 1
- 25 Breath of Heaven Christian Bookstore 1
- 26 The Rcade Comics 1
- 27 The Brain Lair Bookstore 1
- 28 Pleasureland Museum 1
- 29 Joy Christian Bookstore 1
- 30 Black Dog Books 1
- 31 Hyde Brothers, Booksellers 1
- 32 Curious Squirrel Bookshop 1
- 33 Rainbow Books 1
- 34 Friends Of Art Bookstore 1
- 35 Krypton Comics 1
- 36 Ujamaa Community Bookstore 1
- 37 Lores Untold 1
- 38 Dragon's Lair 1
- 39 Knitting Romance 1
- 40 Summit Sports, Comics and Games 1
- 41 Man Cave Comics and Collectibles 1
- 42 Happy Day Comics 1
- 43 Book Center 1
- 44 Creative Comics 2 1
- 45 Friends of the JTPL Bookstore 1
- 46 Blue Moon Comic Strikes Back 1
- 47 Stadium University Book Store 1
- 48 Old Ways Books & Curio 1
- 49 Muncie Book Center 1
- 50 Two Sisters Books 1
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