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As of 4 November 2026, 1,012 books publishing & retail are based in Spain; 1 are hiring right now and Madrid has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 1,012
- Hiring now
- 1 · 1 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Online bookshops · 849
- Top city
- Madrid · 161
- Parent market
- Ecommerce · 66,889
Books publishing & retail in Spain, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Online bookshops | 849 | 84% |
| Book publishers | 213 | 21% |
| Bookshops & antiquarian dealers | 117 | 12% |
| Teaching resource shops | 73 | 7% |
| Childrens book publishers | 51 | 5% |
| Other books publishing & retail | 42 | 4% |
| Online art shops | 9 | 1% |
| Novelist author sites | 6 | 1% |
| Self help book publishing | 6 | 1% |
| Cycling hiking route guides | 3 | 0% |
| Fine art photo print shops | 3 | 0% |
| Poetry author sites | 3 | 0% |
| Record shops | 3 | 0% |
| Comics & webcomics media | 2 | 0% |
| Single book promo sites | 2 | 0% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 565 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 391 · 0 |
| 11-50 employees | 48 · 0 |
| 51-200 employees | 4 · 1 |
| 201-500 employees | 3 · 0 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Madrid | 161 | 16% |
| Barcelona | 60 | 6% |
| Valencia | 25 | 2% |
| Malaga | 20 | 2% |
| Sevilla | 12 | 1% |
| A Coruña | 10 | 1% |
| Gijon | 8 | 1% |
| Granada | 8 | 1% |
| Albacete | 7 | 1% |
| Bilbao | 7 | 1% |
| Cordoba | 7 | 1% |
| Oviedo | 7 | 1% |
The biggest books publishing & retail in Spain
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 Spain
From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.
Other segments of ecommerce in Spain
Ecommerce in Spain, the whole market →
General consumer goods ecommerce · 29,632 →
Fashion & apparel ecommerce · 14,575 →
Health, beauty & food ecommerce · 7,996 →
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce · 6,629 →
Food production, wholesale & retail · 6,417 →
Jewellery & watch ecommerce · 2,908 →
Vehicle & parts retail · 2,416 →
Pet supplies ecommerce · 2,126 →
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1,012 books publishing & retail are based in Spain; 1 are hiring right now and Madrid has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/spain/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 Spain: questions
How many books publishing & retail are there in Spain?
1,012 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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