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. 2nd & Charles and Heaven & Earth sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2nd & Charles | - | +11.0% |
| 2 | Heaven & Earth | ▲1 | -0.5% |
| 3 | Barnes & Noble | - | -4.9% |
| 4 | Book Exchange | ▼1 | -15.4% |
- Barnes & Noble
- Books-A-Million
- 2nd & Charles
- Comic Kings
- JMU Bookstore
- Atomic Comics Emporium I
- McKay Used Books & CD's
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
233 tracked store locations in Virginia. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 62 of the 233 stores (27%); 169 of the 175 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked retail stores here are bookstores, the same share as across the United States.
- Barnes & Noble (38)
- Books-A-Million (12)
- 2nd & Charles (6)
- Comic Kings (1)
- JMU Bookstore (1)
- Atomic Comics Emporium I (1)
- McKay Used Books & CD's (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Barnes & Noble 38
- 2 Books-A-Million 12
- 3 2nd & Charles 6
- 4 Book Exchange 3
- 5 Heaven & Earth 3
- 6 Atlantis Games & Comics 2
- 7 Comic Kings 1
- 8 Big Lick Comics 1
- 9 Book Owl Bookstore 1
- 10 Bargain Books 1
- 11 Richmond Book Shop 1
- 12 The BiblioPub 1
- 13 Downtown Books 1
- 14 Friends of the Library 1
- 15 Waverly Book & Video 1
- 16 NOVA Loudoun Campus Bookstore 1
- 17 The Full Cup 1
- 18 Too Many Books 1
- 19 Libreria Cristiana El Oasis 1
- 20 The Little Bookshop 1
- 21 Stone Soup Books 1
- 22 Campus Store 1
- 23 Indigo 1
- 24 Trilogy Comics 1
- 25 University of Virginia Bookstore 1
- 26 Radford University Bookstore 1
- 27 The Dog-Eared Page 1
- 28 The Book Room 1
- 29 Word of Life Books 1
- 30 The Company of Books 1
- 31 The Book House 1
- 32 Eleanor's Norfolk 1
- 33 bbgb 1
- 34 Reston's Used Book Shop 1
- 35 Staunton Books and Tea 1
- 36 BookPeople 1
- 37 Blessings Christian Bookstore 1
- 38 Hundred Acre Books 1
- 39 ILYSM Books 1
- 40 2nd Act Books 1
- 41 Daedalus Book Shop 1
- 42 Books and Other Found Things 1
- 43 The Midlothian Book Exchange 1
- 44 The Bookshelf on Church 1
- 45 CVCC Bookstore 1
- 46 The Secret Lair Comics and Games 1
- 47 Libreria Cristiana 1
- 48 Welcome Back Kollectables 1
- 49 Amazing Fantasy Comics 1
- 50 Omega Church and Office Supplies 1
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