Books publishing & retail in United States
As of 4 November 2026, 4,593 books publishing & retail are based in United States; 4 are hiring right now and New York has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 4,593
- Hiring now
- 4 · 2 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Online bookshops · 3,164
- Top city
- New York · 92
- Parent market
- Ecommerce · 306,032
Books publishing & retail in United States, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Online bookshops | 3,164 | 69% |
| Book publishers | 875 | 19% |
| Bookshops & antiquarian dealers | 637 | 14% |
| Childrens book publishers | 504 | 11% |
| Teaching resource shops | 458 | 10% |
| Other books publishing & retail | 342 | 7% |
| Self help book publishing | 87 | 2% |
| Novelist author sites | 77 | 2% |
| Single book promo sites | 64 | 1% |
| Online art shops | 48 | 1% |
| Record shops | 27 | 1% |
| Self publishing services | 25 | 1% |
| Fine art photo print shops | 20 | 0% |
| Digital design template shops | 19 | 0% |
| Webcomic & comic creators | 14 | 0% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 3,504 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 915 · 0 |
| 11-50 employees | 152 · 1 |
| 51-200 employees | 16 · 2 |
| 201-500 employees | 4 · 0 |
| 501-1000 employees | 2 · 1 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 92 | 2% |
| San Francisco | 81 | 2% |
| Las Vegas | 53 | 1% |
| Chicago | 51 | 1% |
| Houston | 49 | 1% |
| Brooklyn | 36 | 1% |
| Milan | 34 | 1% |
| Washington | 33 | 1% |
| Miami | 29 | 1% |
| Albany | 28 | 1% |
| Seattle | 27 | 1% |
| Austin | 25 | 1% |
The biggest books publishing & retail in United States
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 United States
From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.
Other segments of ecommerce in United States
Ecommerce in United States, the whole market →
General consumer goods ecommerce · 140,907 →
Fashion & apparel ecommerce · 70,863 →
Health, beauty & food ecommerce · 42,503 →
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce · 19,277 →
Food production, wholesale & retail · 16,542 →
Jewellery & watch ecommerce · 12,766 →
Pet supplies ecommerce · 11,623 →
Vehicle & parts retail · 10,741 →
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4,593 books publishing & retail are based in United States; 4 are hiring right now and New York has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/united-states/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 United States: questions
How many books publishing & retail are there in United States?
4,593 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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