List of bookstore chains
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This is a list of bookstore chains with brick-and-mortar locations. In the United Kingdom
, they are known as "bookshops" and "newsagents". In American English
, they are called "bookstores", or sometimes "newsstands", as they also usually carry newspapers and magazines. In British English
, most advertising of books typically uses the phrase "available at all good book shops", while in American English the phrase "available at local bookstores [or booksellers]" is usually employed. This list includes both current and defunct businesses, and also includes large independent bookstore
s that have multiple locations, but that use a different business model than most business chains.
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Finland
France
Germany
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Korea
Mexico
New Zealand
Philippines
Singapore
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, they are known as "bookshops" and "newsagents". In American English
American English
American English is a set of dialects of the English language used mostly in the United States. Approximately two-thirds of the world's native speakers of English live in the United States....
, they are called "bookstores", or sometimes "newsstands", as they also usually carry newspapers and magazines. In British English
British English
British English, or English , is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere...
, most advertising of books typically uses the phrase "available at all good book shops", while in American English the phrase "available at local bookstores [or booksellers]" is usually employed. This list includes both current and defunct businesses, and also includes large independent bookstore
Independent bookstore
An independent bookstore is a retail bookstore which is independently owned.-Literary and countercultural history:Author events at independent bookstores sometimes take the role of literary salons. The bookstores themselves, "have historically supported and cultivated the work of independent...
s that have multiple locations, but that use a different business model than most business chains.
AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
- Angus & RobertsonAngus & RobertsonAngus & Robertson is a bookstore chain in Australia. Its first bookstore was opened in 110½ Market Street, Sydney by Scotsman David Angus in 1884; it sold second-hand books. In 1886, he went into partnership with fellow Scot, George Robertson with whom he had worked earlier.- Bookselling history...
- BordersBorders (Asia Pacific)Borders is a bookseller in the Pacific area of Asia and Australasia. It consists of five Borders stores still open in New Zealand, and formerly Australia and Singapore.-History:...
- Collins BooksellersCollins BooksellersCollins Booksellers Pty Ltd is an Australian book store chain founded in 1922 by Frederick Henry Slamen. The name Collins is from the original location of the first store, 622 Collins Street, Melbourne....
- Dymocks BooksellersDymocks BooksellersDymocks booksellers is a bookstore chain found in Australia. It currently has 73 stores in Australia, 7 in New Zealand and 13 in Hong Kong.- History :...
- KoorongKoorongKoorong is a Christian bookstore chain operating across Australia. It is one of the two largest retailers of Christian books and media in Australia, along with Word book store chain.-History:...
- Mcgills
- Queensland Book DepotQueensland Book DepotQBD, originally Queensland Book Depot, is a large chain of bookshops in Australia, with almost all stores found in the states of Queensland and New South Wales....
- The Co-op Bookshop
- Word BookstoresWord (bookstore)The Word bookstore is a chain of nineteen Christian bookstores in Australia, plus telephone, internet and mail order. Word is the second-largest Australian Christian book seller after Koorong....
- Golds World of JudaicaGolds World of JudaicaGolds World of Judaica, , is the Southern Hemisphere's largest Judaica store, as well as being Australia's main importer, wholesaler and retailer of Judaica items...
BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
- Livraria CulturaLivraria CulturaLivraria Cultura is the largest bookstore in Brazil. It was founded in 1948 in São Paulo by Eva Herz....
- Livraria Saraiva
- Livraria Nobel
- Livraria Siciliano
CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
- ArchambaultArchambaultArchambault, a Quebecor Media company, is the largest music retailer in the province of Quebec, Canada, as well as a major retailer of books, DVDs, periodicals, musical instruments, sheet music, games, toys and gift ideas. Its e-commerce site, www.archambault.ca, is the largest French-language...
- Book City (Canada)Book City (Canada)Book City is a Toronto-based independent book store chain. The stores are situated as far west as the Bloor-West Village and as far east as the Beaches.- History :...
- ChaptersChaptersChapters is a Canadian big box bookstore banner owned by Indigo Books and Music. Formerly a company in its own right competing with Indigo, the combined company has continued to operate both banners since their merger in 2001.-History:...
, ColesColes (bookstore)Coles is a Canadian bookstore chain owned by Indigo Books and Music. Coles currently serves as Indigo's brand for small-scale bookstores in locations such as shopping malls...
, IndigoIndigo Books and MusicIndigo Books & Music Inc. is a Canadian retail bookstore chain. The company was founded in 1996 by CEO Heather Reisman, wife of Gerry Schwartz, majority owner and CEO of Onex Corporation....
belong to the same corporation. - Kobo eBookstoreKobo Inc.Kobo Inc. is the company that makes the Kobo eReader, and its headquarters is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 2009. The majority shareholder is Indigo Books and Music. Before being spun off, Kobo was a division of Indigo...
- Librairie RaffinLibrairie RaffinLibrairie Raffin is a chain of bookstores in Quebec, Canada. It has six branches, mostly in the Montreal region. It specializes in French-language books.-External links:*...
- McNally RobinsonMcNally RobinsonMcNally Robinson Booksellers is a family-operated chain of Canadian independent bookstores founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1981. It is managed by Holly and Paul McNally and their daughter Victoria .- Overview :...
- Nicholas HoareNicholas HoareNicholas Hoare is a small chain of Canadian independent bookstores specialising in British books.Nicholas Hoare operates three locations: one in Montreal, Quebec, on Greene Avenue in Westmount ; one on Sussex Drive in Ottawa, Ontario; one on Front Street in Toronto,...
- Renaud-BrayRenaud-BrayLa librairie Renaud-Bray is the largest chain of French-language bookstores in North America, and the largest bookstore chain in Canada after Chapters/Indigo....
FinlandFinlandFinland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
- Akateeminen Kirjakauppa ("The Academic Bookstore") http://www.akateeminen.com/
- Suomalainen KirjakauppaSuomalainen KirjakauppaSuomalainen Kirjakauppa is the largest bookshop chain in Finland with it's flagship branch in Helsinki being Finland's largest bookshop. It was founded in 1912 and expanded to become Finland's largest bookshop chain in the 1990s....
("The Finnish Bookstore") http://www.suomalainen.com/
FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
- Gibert Joseph (leading independent bookstore chain. The Paris venture is the biggest bookstore in France)
- Hachette Distribution Services
- FlammarionGroupe FlammarionGroupe Flammarion is the fourth largest publishing group in France, comprising many units, including its namesake, founded in 1876 by Ernest Flammarion, as well as units in distribution, sales, printing and bookshops . Flammarion became part of the Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup in 2000...
- FnacFnacFnac is an international entertainment retail chain offering cultural and electronic products, founded by André Essel and Max Théret in 1954. It is the largest retailer of its kind in France...
(78 stores with book departments in FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, 65 in 8 other countries) - BertelsmannBertelsmannBertelsmann AG is a multinational media corporation founded in 1835, based in Gütersloh, Germany. The company operates in 63 countries and employs 102,983 workers , which makes it the most international media corporation in the world. In 2008 the company reported a €16.118 billion consolidated...
subsidiary France Loisirs
GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
- Verlagsgruppe Weltbild, Weltbild Plus, Weltbild!, Weltbild best, Jokers, Wohlthat (circa 350-400 Shops)
- HugendubelHugendubelHugendubel is, along with Thalia, one of two major book retailers in Germany. It was founded in 1893 by Heinrich Karl Gustav Hugendubel in Munich.- History :...
(34 book-department-stores)
Hong KongHong KongHong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
- Chung Hwa
- Commercial PressCommercial Press-History:In 1897, 26-year-old Xia Ruifang and three of his friends founded The Commercial Press in Shanghai. The group soon received financial backing and began publishing books. In 1914, Xia attempted to buy out a Japanese company that had invested in the Commercial Press. Four days later he was...
- Dymocks BooksellersDymocks BooksellersDymocks booksellers is a bookstore chain found in Australia. It currently has 73 stores in Australia, 7 in New Zealand and 13 in Hong Kong.- History :...
- Joint PublishingJoint PublishingJoint Publishing is a book store chain and publisher founded at Queen's Road Central in Hong Kong in 18 October 1948. It is one of major book store chains in Hong Kong. Currently a subsidiary company of Sino United Publishing Limited....
- Page One
- Popular
- World Book
IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
- Scientific International Pvt. Ltd. - 91-11-43512984
- Crossword BookstoresCrossword BookstoresCrossword Bookstores is a chain of bookstores in India based in Mumbai. Crossword has stores in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Nagpur, Nashik, Vadodara, Navi Mumbai, Pune and Ahmedabad. The most recent outlet opened in Durgapur.Crossword is fully owned by Shopper's...
- Oxford Bookstore
- LandmarkLandmarkThis is a list of landmarks around the world.Landmarks may be split into two categories - natural phenomena and man-made features, like buildings, bridges, statues, public squares and so forth...
- StarmarkStarmarkStarmark Co., Ltd , trading as Starmark is a privately held, Thailand build-in furniture company that specialize in kitchen and bathroom products. Formerly known as Phet Kasem Khrueang Ruean , the company was founded in 1982...
- Om Books
- A H Wheeler & CoA H Wheeler & CoAH Wheeler & Co Ltd, is the largest bookstore chain in India. The chain was founded by Emile Moreau, a French author, and TK Banerjee, an Indian businessman in Allahabad. AH Wheeler borrowed its name from the then-successful London bookstore, Arthur Henry Wheeler's. AH Wheeler opened its first...
- Gita PressGita PressThe Gita Press is one of the world's largest publishers of Hindu religious texts. It is located in Gorakhpur city of India's Uttar Pradesh state. It was founded in 1923 by Jaya Dayal Goyandka for promoting the principles of Sanatana Dharma. Hanuman Prasad Poddar was the founding and the lifetime...
IndonesiaIndonesiaIndonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
- Gunung AgungGunung Agung (bookstore)Gunung Agung is one of Indonesia's leading bookstore companies. It is named after the volcano of that name in Bali, Indonesia.The origin of the bookstore dates back to the early 1950s when the late Tjio Wie Tay , who later became popularly known as Haji Masagung, started a kiosk selling books,...
- Kinokuniya
- Gramedia
- PeriplusPeriplusPeriplus is the Latinization of an ancient Greek word, περίπλους , literally "a sailing-around." Both segments, peri- and -plous, were independently productive: the ancient Greek speaker understood the word in its literal sense; however, it developed a few specialized meanings, one of which became...
- TimesTimesThe Times is a UK daily newspaper, the original English language newspaper titled "Times". Times may also refer to:In newspapers:*The Times , went defunct in 2005*The Times *The Times of Northwest Indiana...
ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
- Feltrinelli
- Giunti al Punto
- Libraccio
- Mondadori
- UbikUbikUbik is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Critic Lev Grossman described it as "a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you'll never be sure you've woken up from."-Plot synopsis:...
JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
- Book OffBook Offis Japan's largest chain of used bookstores. Founded in August 1991, the company has had explosive success, expanding to 866 stores throughout Japan and eight overseas locations . In addition to books, its chains also sell manga, CDs, DVDs and video games...
- KinokuniyaBooks Kinokuniyais a Japanese bookstore chain operated by , founded in 1927, with its first store located in Shinjuku, Tokyo.It means "Store of Kii Province". The company has its headquarters in Meguro, Tokyo.-History:...
- Maruzen
- YurindoYurindois a Japanese publishing company and bookstore, founded in 1909....
- LIBROLibrois a Japanese book retailer. Libro is a unit of Seiyu Group. Libro is headquartered in Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo.-External links:*...
KoreaKoreaKorea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
- Kyobo Book CentreKyobo Book CentreThe Kyobo Book Centre or Kyobo Mungo , is the largest and most famous book store in South Korea. It boasts ten stores in seven cities, the most famous one being its Main Store, or Gwanghwamun-jum in Seoul, which is located right under the Kyobo Building, situated at Number 1, Jong-ro 1 Street...
- Jongro SeojukJongro SeojukJongro Seojuk, or less known as Jongro Book Center, was the mecca of book shopping in Seoul, Korea for many book fanatics over the decades. It opened in 1907 and declared bankruptcy in June 2002. With a 95 year old history, it was the place for university students, highschool students, anyone,...
(bankrupt) - Young Pung Bookstore
- Bandi and Runis
- LIBRO
Malaysia
- Borders MalaysiaBorders GroupBorders Group, Inc. was an international book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The company employed approximately 19,500 throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooks stores....
- e-books
- Kinokuniya
- MPH Bookstores
- Page One
- PopularPopular HoldingsPopular Holdings , commonly called Popular, is a Singapore-based company that publishes, distributes, and retails books for the local education market. It has subsidiaries in countries such as Canada, the People's Republic of China, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan...
- Smart Bookstore (East Malaysia)
- Times Bookstore (East Malaysia)
MexicoMexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
- Fondo de Cultura EconómicaFondo de Cultura EconómicaFondo de Cultura Económica is the most important publishing house in Mexico and one of the most important ones in Latin America. It was originally established in 1934 by Daniel Cosío Villegas as a way to provide students of economics with books in Spanish on the subject...
- SanbornsGrupo SanbornsGrupo Sanborns is a large restaurant, retail, pharmacy and department store chain located in Mexico and in El Salvador.-History:The retail company was founded in Mexico City on June 19, 1903 by California immigrants Walter and Frank Sanborn, who also opened Mexico's first soda fountain...
- Librerías Ghandi
New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
- BordersBorders (Asia Pacific)Borders is a bookseller in the Pacific area of Asia and Australasia. It consists of five Borders stores still open in New Zealand, and formerly Australia and Singapore.-History:...
- Dymocks BooksellersDymocks BooksellersDymocks booksellers is a bookstore chain found in Australia. It currently has 73 stores in Australia, 7 in New Zealand and 13 in Hong Kong.- History :...
- Paper Plus
- WhitcoullsWhitcoullsWhitcoulls is a major national bookstore chain in New Zealand, formerly known as Whitcombe & Tombs. It has 62 stores nationally. Whitcombe & Tombs was founded in 1888, and Coulls Somerville Wilkie in 1871. The companies merged in 1971 to form Whitcoulls...
PhilippinesPhilippinesThe Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
- National Bookstore
- Rex BookstoreRex BookstoreRex Bookstore, Inc. is a bookstore chain in the Philippines. It was incorporated in 1950 and established branches in Cebu , Shaw , Makati and Davao , Iloilo , Cubao , Cagayan de Oro and Urdaneta , Legaspi City , Rockwell and Cavite , General Santos City , Cabanatuan and Pampanga , and Tacloban...
- Fully BookedFully BookedFully Booked was a magazine show for children produced by BBC Scotland and broadcast from 1995 to 1999, and in revised form as FBi in 2000. The show was a summer-time replacement for Live & Kicking, which would normally not broadcast over the summer months...
- A Different Bookstore
- Book Sale
SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
- Kinokuniya
- Borders
- TimesTimesThe Times is a UK daily newspaper, the original English language newspaper titled "Times". Times may also refer to:In newspapers:*The Times , went defunct in 2005*The Times *The Times of Northwest Indiana...
- Page One
- PopularPopular HoldingsPopular Holdings , commonly called Popular, is a Singapore-based company that publishes, distributes, and retails books for the local education market. It has subsidiaries in countries such as Canada, the People's Republic of China, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan...
- MPH
- HarrisHarrisHarris is the southern and more mountainous part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Although not an island itself, Harris is often referred to as the Isle of Harris, which is the former postal county and the current post town for Royal Mail postcodes starting...
- Open Trolley
- Computer Books
- Bras Basah Complex
Defunct
- Ottakar'sOttakar'sOttakar's was a chain of bookshops in the United Kingdom founded in 1987 by James Heneage. Following a takeover by the HMV Group plc in 2006, the chain was merged into the Waterstone's brand.-History:...
(bought out by HMV, rebranded as Waterstone'sWaterstone'sWaterstone's is a British book specialist established in 1982 by Tim Waterstone that employs around 4,500 staff throughout the United Kingdom and Europe....
) - DillonsDillons BooksellersDillons was a bookshop and subsequently a bookselling chain, based in the United Kingdom, which traded between 1932 and 1999.Founded by Una Dillon in 1932, Dillons was for most of its history most closely associated with its signature building on Gower Street in London, near University College...
(all stores were rebranded as Waterstone'sWaterstone'sWaterstone's is a British book specialist established in 1982 by Tim Waterstone that employs around 4,500 staff throughout the United Kingdom and Europe....
) - Books Etc (now owned by BordersBorders (UK) Ltd.Borders Ltd., aka Borders & Books etc, was established as a Borders Group subsidiary in 1998 and in 2007 became independent of the US company. At its peak after separation from the US parent, it traded from its 41 Borders and 28 BOOKS etc. shops, with over one million square feet of retail space...
) - BordersBorders (UK) Ltd.Borders Ltd., aka Borders & Books etc, was established as a Borders Group subsidiary in 1998 and in 2007 became independent of the US company. At its peak after separation from the US parent, it traded from its 41 Borders and 28 BOOKS etc. shops, with over one million square feet of retail space...
(went into Administration in November 2009) - John MenziesJohn MenziesJohn Menzies plc is a Scottish business established in 1833. It has two main divisions: Menzies Distribution and Menzies Aviation. Menzies Distribution is a major distributor of newspapers and magazines throughout the United Kingdom...
Current
- Barnes & NobleBarnes & NobleBarnes & Noble, Inc. is the largest book retailer in the United States, operating mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores headquartered at 122 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District in Manhattan in New York City. Barnes & Noble also operated the chain of small B. Dalton...
- Book Off USABook Offis Japan's largest chain of used bookstores. Founded in August 1991, the company has had explosive success, expanding to 866 stores throughout Japan and eight overseas locations . In addition to books, its chains also sell manga, CDs, DVDs and video games...
- Books-A-MillionBooks-A-MillionBooks-A-Million, Inc., also known as BAM!, is a company that owns the second largest U.S. bookstore chain and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The company operates over 200 stores in the South, Midwest, Northeast...
- Books Inc.
- Deseret BookDeseret BookDeseret Book is the largest Latter-day Saint book publisher and also owns a chain of LDS bookstores in the western United States. Over 150 people work in its Salt Lake City headquarters...
, also operates Seagull Book - Follett'sFollett CorporationFollett Corporation is a River Grove, Illinois-based company that provides a variety of educational products to schools, colleges, and public libraries through its subsidiaries.-History:...
- Half Price BooksHalf Price BooksHalf Price Books, Records, Magazines, Incorporated is the largest family-owned chain of new and used bookstores in the United States. The company’s original motto is "We buy and sell anything printed or recorded except yesterday's newspaper", and many of the used books, music, and movies for sale...
- Hastings EntertainmentHastings EntertainmentHastings Entertainment is a regional retail chain that sells books, music, movies, and video games. It also rents movies and video games and buys used books, music, movies and video games for resale....
- Hudson BooksellersHudson GroupThe Hudson Group is an East Rutherford, New Jersey, based retailer which operates a chain of newsstands, bookstores, fast food restaurants, and other retail stores chiefly at airports and train stations in the United States. It was founded in 1918 by Ike Cohen as a newspaper distributorship in...
, chiefly located at airports and train stations - Joseph-Beth BooksellersJoseph-Beth BooksellersJoseph-Beth Booksellers is an independent bookseller with three stores in the United States. It formerly operated a total of seven under the Joseph-Beth name and two under the Davis-Kidd Booksellers name. The name "Joseph-Beth" derives from the middle names of its two founders, Neil and Mary Beth...
, also operates Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Nashville and Memphis - Powell's BooksPowell's BooksPowell's Books is a chain of bookstores in Oregon's Portland metropolitan area. Powell's headquarters, dubbed Powell's City of Books, claims to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. Powell's City of Books is located in the Pearl District on the edge of downtown and...
, which includes the world's largest independent new and used bookstore - Schuler Books & MusicSchuler Books & MusicSchuler Books & Music, formerly known as simply Schuler Books, is a small Michigan chain of bookstores. Along with books, DVDs, and music CDs, the stores also sell food and beverages at its in store cafes. Founded in 1982, it has since become one of the largest independent bookstores in the nation...
- Shakespeare and Company
- Printsasia
Defunct
- Borders Books and MusicBorders GroupBorders Group, Inc. was an international book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The company employed approximately 19,500 throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooks stores....
, also operated WaldenbooksWaldenbooksWaldenbooks , operated by the Walden Book Company, Inc., was an American shopping mall-based bookstore chain and a subsidiary of Borders Group. The chain also ran a video game and software chain under the name Waldensoftware as well as a children's edutainment chain under Walden Kids...
and Brentano'sBrentano'sBrentano's was an American bookstore. In addition to the numerous locations in the United States, there was a Brentano's on Avenue de l'Opéra in Paris, at the same location for 114 years.... - Crown BooksCrown BooksCrown Books Corporation was a bookseller headquartered in Lake Arbor, an unincorporated community in Prince George's County, Maryland, near Largo and Upper Marlboro. It was founded in the Washington, D.C., metro area by Robert Haft in 1977...
- B. DaltonB. DaltonB. Dalton Bookseller was an American retail bookstore chain founded in 1966 by the Dayton's department store chain. Located primarily in shopping malls, B. Dalton competed primarily with Waldenbooks, and operated 798 stores at its peak...
- Encore BooksEncore BooksEncore Books was a regional chain of bookstores based in the eastern United States until its closure in 1999.- Founding :Encore Books was started by David Schlessinger, who went on to found the Zany Brainy and retail chains...
- Kroch's and Brentano's
- Media PlayMedia PlayMedia Play was a chain of retail stores founded in 1992 by Musicland that sold movies on video, DVDs, music, Electronics, video games, books, and games in the United States. Each store essentially contained a book store, a movie store, a music store, and a video game store under one roof. At...
- Oxford Bookstore (an offline chain of bookstores in the U.S.)