Books publishing & retail in Australia
As of 4 November 2026, 712 books publishing & retail are based in Australia; Melbourne has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 712
- Hiring now
- 0 · 0 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Online bookshops · 457
- Top city
- Melbourne · 11
- Parent market
- Ecommerce · 55,063
Books publishing & retail in Australia, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Online bookshops | 457 | 64% |
| Childrens book publishers | 128 | 18% |
| Book publishers | 123 | 17% |
| Bookshops & antiquarian dealers | 96 | 13% |
| Teaching resource shops | 75 | 11% |
| Other books publishing & retail | 30 | 4% |
| Novelist author sites | 13 | 2% |
| Single book promo sites | 12 | 2% |
| Self help book publishing | 11 | 2% |
| Cycling hiking route guides | 4 | 1% |
| Online art shops | 4 | 1% |
| Poetry author sites | 4 | 1% |
| Artist studios | 2 | 0% |
| Business book authors | 2 | 0% |
| Digital design template shops | 2 | 0% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 550 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 144 · 0 |
| 11-50 employees | 17 · 0 |
| 51-200 employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | 11 | 2% |
| Perth | 4 | 1% |
| Prahran | 4 | 1% |
| Adelaide | 3 | 0% |
| Brisbane | 3 | 0% |
| Clunes | 3 | 0% |
| Fitzroy | 3 | 0% |
| Haymarket | 3 | 0% |
| Traralgon | 3 | 0% |
| Abbotsford | 2 | 0% |
| Adelaide Bc | 2 | 0% |
| Ashburton | 2 | 0% |
The biggest books publishing & retail in Australia
The largest ecommerce stores of the segment, by headcount; marketplaces and portals left out.
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What these ecommerce stores run on
Ecommerce platform read from the stores' own pages and DNS.
The stack of books publishing & retail in Australia
From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.
Other segments of ecommerce in Australia
Ecommerce in Australia, the whole market →
General consumer goods ecommerce · 25,206 →
Fashion & apparel ecommerce · 11,025 →
Health, beauty & food ecommerce · 7,092 →
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce · 4,884 →
Food production, wholesale & retail · 4,749 →
Vehicle & parts retail · 2,300 →
Pet supplies ecommerce · 2,233 →
Jewellery & watch ecommerce · 2,232 →
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712 books publishing & retail are based in Australia; Melbourne has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/australia/books_publishing_and_retail)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Books publishing & retail in Australia: questions
How many books publishing & retail are there in Australia?
712 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Ecommerce → Books publishing & retail → leaf niches such as online bookshops, childrens book publishers, book publishers. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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