Trends · data through August 2026

Bookstores in Iowa

Iceflower tracks 33 stores from 23 bookstores chains in Iowa.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
23
Tracked stores
33
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked bookstores 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. Books-A-Million and Barnes & Noble sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Books-A-Million logo Books-A-Million - +2.6%
2 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble - -2.4%
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Mayhem Comics
  • Half Price Books
  • The Core
  • Books-A-Million
  • UNI Bookstore
  • Dog Eared Books
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

33 tracked store locations in Iowa. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Barnes & Noble (7)
  • Mayhem Comics (2)
  • Half Price Books (2)
  • The Core (1)
  • Books-A-Million (3)
  • UNI Bookstore (1)
  • Dog Eared Books (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble 7
  • 2 B Books-A-Million logo Books-A-Million 3
  • 3 M Mayhem Comics 2
  • 4 H Half Price Books logo Half Price Books 2
  • 5 T The Emporium 1
  • 6 R Rodman Comics 1
  • 7 D Daydreams Comics 1
  • 8 F FBBC Bookstore 1
  • 9 C Comic World 1
  • 10 R Reading in Public Bookstore & Cafe 1
  • 11 A Alter Ego Comics 1
  • 12 D Divine Treasures Inc 1
  • 13 S Storyhouse Bookpub 1
  • 14 H Hawk Shop 1
  • 15 T The Little Book 1
  • 16 B Beaverdale Books 1
  • 17 L Limited Edition Comics & Collectibles 1
  • 18 P Prairie Lights Bookstore 1
  • 19 W Walls of Books 1
  • 20 I Iowa Book 1
  • 21 D Dog Eared Books 1
  • 22 U UNI Bookstore 1
  • 23 T The Core 1

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