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As of 4 November 2026, 410 books publishing & retail are based in Canada; Toronto has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 410
- Hiring now
- 0 · 0 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Online bookshops · 268
- Top city
- Toronto · 18
- Parent market
- Ecommerce · 38,371
Books publishing & retail in Canada, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Online bookshops | 268 | 65% |
| Book publishers | 83 | 20% |
| Bookshops & antiquarian dealers | 66 | 16% |
| Childrens book publishers | 53 | 13% |
| Teaching resource shops | 46 | 11% |
| Other books publishing & retail | 19 | 5% |
| Online art shops | 6 | 1% |
| Self help book publishing | 6 | 1% |
| Novelist author sites | 5 | 1% |
| Single book promo sites | 4 | 1% |
| Self publishing services | 3 | 1% |
| Artist studios | 2 | 0% |
| Kitchen advice sites | 2 | 0% |
| Tabletop game publishers | 2 | 0% |
| Book review blogs | 1 | 0% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 328 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 73 · 0 |
| 11-50 employees | 7 · 0 |
| 51-200 employees | 1 · 0 |
| 501-1000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto | 18 | 4% |
| Québec | 10 | 2% |
| Montréal | 8 | 2% |
| Ottawa | 6 | 1% |
| Downtown Toronto (CN Tower / King and Spadina / Railway Lands / Harbourfront West / Bathurst Quay / South Niagara / YTZ) | 3 | 1% |
| Mississauga | 3 | 1% |
| Ottawa (Centre Town) | 3 | 1% |
| Vancouver | 3 | 1% |
| Victoria | 3 | 1% |
| Aurora | 2 | 0% |
| Brampton South | 2 | 0% |
| Burnaby | 2 | 0% |
The biggest books publishing & retail in Canada
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 Canada
From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.
Other segments of ecommerce in Canada
Ecommerce in Canada, the whole market →
General consumer goods ecommerce · 17,361 →
Fashion & apparel ecommerce · 7,639 →
Health, beauty & food ecommerce · 5,043 →
Food production, wholesale & retail · 3,584 →
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce · 2,732 →
Tobacco, vape & cannabis retail · 1,541 →
Jewellery & watch ecommerce · 1,504 →
Pet supplies ecommerce · 1,439 →
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410 books publishing & retail are based in Canada; Toronto has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/canada/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 Canada: questions
How many books publishing & retail are there in Canada?
410 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, book publishers, bookshops & antiquarian dealers. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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