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. Book Culture and Barnes & Noble sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Book Culture | - | +14.3% |
| 2 | Barnes & Noble | - | +5.2% |
| 3 | McNally Jackson Books | ▲1 | -3.1% |
| 4 | Kinokuniya | ▼1 | -49.1% |
- Barnes & Noble
- Strand Book Store
- McNally Jackson Books
- Kinokuniya
- Zapp Comics
- Book Off
- Midtown Comics
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
319 tracked store locations in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 74 of the 319 stores (23%); 231 of the 243 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are bookstores, the same share as across New York.
- Barnes & Noble (59)
- Strand Book Store (2)
- McNally Jackson Books (6)
- Kinokuniya (3)
- Zapp Comics (2)
- Book Off (2)
- Midtown Comics (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Barnes & Noble 59
- 2 McNally Jackson Books 6
- 3 Book Culture 4
- 4 Kinokuniya 3
- 5 Books Are Magic 2
- 6 The Astoria Bookshop 2
- 7 The Last Word 2
- 8 Greenlight Bookstore 2
- 9 Z Berman Books 2
- 10 Book Off 2
- 11 Zapp Comics 2
- 12 Strand Book Store 2
- 13 A & A Discount 1
- 14 Troubled Sleep 1
- 15 Mercer Street Books & Records 1
- 16 Terrace Books 1
- 17 The Town Bookstore 1
- 18 Early Bird Newstand 1
- 19 Kitchen Arts & Letters 1
- 20 The BookMark Shoppe 1
- 21 Bulletproof Comics Inc 1
- 22 Street Corner News 1
- 23 Mekor Judaica 1
- 24 Artbook at MoMA PS1 1
- 25 Aeon Bookstore 1
- 26 Daily News 1
- 27 The Little Point Bookshop 1
- 28 Vintage Books 1
- 29 Village Bookstore 1
- 30 Fourth World Comics 1
- 31 Burton's Bookstore 1
- 32 Left Bank Books 1
- 33 Lishkas Hasofer 1
- 34 Clockwork Comics & Cards 1
- 35 Lexington Ave News 1
- 36 Split Rock Books 1
- 37 Galaxy Comics 1
- 38 Desert Island 1
- 39 Black Dog Books 1
- 40 Transom Bookshop 1
- 41 United Nations Bookshop 1
- 42 Human Relations 1
- 43 The Mysterious Bookshop 1
- 44 Aum Shanti Bookshop & Psychic Tarot Card Readings 1
- 45 Cyber News 1
- 46 dear friend books 1
- 47 Dashwood Books 1
- 48 Bais Hasforim 1
- 49 Quimby's Bookstore 1
- 50 192 Books 1
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