Trends · data through September 2026

Bookstores in Rhode Island

Iceflower tracks 30 stores from 27 bookstore chains in Rhode Island.

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
27
Tracked stores
30
Consumer panel
130M+

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.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble - 0.0%
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Brown University Bookstore
  • Barrington Books
  • Martin House Books
  • Charter Books
  • Symposium Books
  • Wakefield Books
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

30 tracked store locations in Rhode Island. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Barnes & Noble (4)
  • Brown University Bookstore (1)
  • Barrington Books (1)
  • Martin House Books (1)
  • Charter Books (1)
  • Symposium Books (1)
  • Wakefield Books (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 B Barnes & Noble logo Barnes & Noble 4
  • 2 B Brown University Bookstore 1
  • 3 B Barrington Books 1
  • 4 M Martin House Books 1
  • 5 C Charter Books 1
  • 6 S Symposium Books 1
  • 7 W Wakefield Books 1
  • 8 B Books On the Square 1
  • 9 I Island Books 1
  • 10 T The Time Capsule 1
  • 11 S Salve Regina Bookstore 1
  • 12 R Riff Raff Bookstore and Bar 1
  • 13 U URI Campus Store 1
  • 14 N New Life Christian Store 1
  • 15 Y Yellow House Bookstore 1
  • 16 H High Ground Comics 1
  • 17 P Paper Nautilus 1
  • 18 I Island Bound 1
  • 19 C Commonwealth Books of Newport 1
  • 20 I Ink Fish Books 1
  • 21 H Heartleaf Books 1
  • 22 A Annex Comics 1
  • 23 A Arc{hive} Book & Snackery 1
  • 24 R ReReads Bookshop 1
  • 25 S Stillwater Books 1
  • 26 H Healy News Store 1
  • 27 L Lovecraft Arts and Sciences 1

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