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. Barnes & Noble and Third Place Books sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barnes & Noble | - | +16.1% |
| 2 | Third Place Books | - | +4.4% |
| 3 | Half Price Books | - | -6.8% |
- Barnes & Noble
- Half Price Books
- Kinokuniya
- Elliott Bay Book Company
- Golden Age Collectables
- Third Place Books
- Comiks the Gathering
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
120 tracked store locations in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 31 of the 120 stores (26%); 89 of the 94 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are bookstores, the same share as across Washington.
- Barnes & Noble (18)
- Half Price Books (6)
- Kinokuniya (1)
- Elliott Bay Book Company (1)
- Golden Age Collectables (1)
- Third Place Books (3)
- Comiks the Gathering (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Barnes & Noble 18
- 2 Half Price Books 6
- 3 Third Place Books 3
- 4 Wit's End Bookstore 2
- 5 University Bookstore 2
- 6 Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books 1
- 7 Gig Harbor Book Company 1
- 8 Shelf Indulgence 1
- 9 Three Trees Books 1
- 10 Gambia International 1
- 11 Phantom Zone Comics Alderwood 1
- 12 Phoenix Comics & Games 1
- 13 We B Bookin' 1
- 14 Arcane Comics 1
- 15 Haunted Burrow 1
- 16 Page Turner Books 1
- 17 Peter Miller 1
- 18 Vashon Bookshop 1
- 19 Magnolia's Bookstore 1
- 20 Page 2 Books 1
- 21 Ridgecrest Books 1
- 22 Action City Comics & Toys 1
- 23 Walls of Books 1
- 24 Seattle University Campus Store 1
- 25 Books & Bottles 1
- 26 FriendShop 1
- 27 Edge of the Circle Books 1
- 28 Dreamstrands Comics 1
- 29 Frontline 1
- 30 Christian Armory 1
- 31 Ballard Books 1
- 32 Magus Annex 1
- 33 Main Street Books 1
- 34 Mam's Books 1
- 35 Chocolate Box 1
- 36 Amen Christian Book Store 1
- 37 Chin Music Press 1
- 38 Uppercase Books 1
- 39 Apparition Books 1
- 40 Book Larder 1
- 41 Wanderlust Book Lounge 1
- 42 BookTree 1
- 43 Nook & Cranny Books 1
- 44 LWIT Bookstore 1
- 45 Highline Bookstore 1
- 46 Hills of Comics 1
- 47 Bastyr Bookstore 1
- 48 Pegasus Book Exchange 1
- 49 Grumpy Old Man's Comics, Art, & Collectibles 1
- 50 Open Books 1
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