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. Collector's Paradise and Book Off sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Collector's Paradise | - | +13.1% |
| 2 | Book Off | - | +13.0% |
| 3 | Barnes & Noble | - | +4.9% |
| 4 | The Open Book | - | -2.3% |
| 5 | Kinokuniya | - | -8.2% |
- Barnes & Noble
- USC Bookstore
- Kinokuniya
- Vroman's Bookstore
- Book Off
- animate
- Skylight Books
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
192 tracked store locations in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 43 of the 192 stores (22%); 143 of the 151 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked retail stores here are bookstores, the same share as across California.
- Barnes & Noble (28)
- USC Bookstore (1)
- Kinokuniya (4)
- Vroman's Bookstore (1)
- Book Off (5)
- animate (1)
- Skylight Books (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Barnes & Noble 28
- 2 Book Off 5
- 3 Kinokuniya 4
- 4 Collector's Paradise 3
- 5 The Open Book 3
- 6 Malik Books 2
- 7 The Comic Bug 2
- 8 Bargain Book World 2
- 9 North Figueroa Bookshop 1
- 10 Los Angeles Downtown News 1
- 11 Indigo 1
- 12 The Chapel Store 1
- 13 Spiral Staircase 1
- 14 Planet Books 1
- 15 Comic Cult Torrance 1
- 16 Underdog Bookstore 1
- 17 Comic Hero University 1
- 18 Irvine Standard 1
- 19 Libreria Catolica Cristo Vive 1
- 20 The Pop-Hop 1
- 21 OC Fire Store 1
- 22 Sideshow Books 1
- 23 Malibu Shaman 1
- 24 Angel City Books and Records 1
- 25 Thunderbolt Spiritual Books 1
- 26 Store 33 1
- 27 Reparations Club 1
- 28 Nuclear Comics 1
- 29 Zibby's Bookshop 1
- 30 Metropolis Comics 1
- 31 Now Serving 1
- 32 Laurel Canyon News 1
- 33 Bookstore 1
- 34 Flintridge Bookstore 1
- 35 Holy Family Bookstore 1
- 36 House of David 1
- 37 Campus Store 1
- 38 Fables & Fancies 1
- 39 Diesel, A Bookstore 1
- 40 Dreamworld Comics 1
- 41 Claremont Forum Bookshop & Gallery 1
- 42 Libreria San Pablo 1
- 43 St Joseph Catholic Books 1
- 44 ARTBOOK 1
- 45 Malibu Village Books 1
- 46 CSULB Bookstore 1
- 47 Comic Book Hideout 1
- 48 Malibu Newsstand 1
- 49 Kitchen Lingo Books 1
- 50 La Yoga Magazine 1
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