Powell's Books is a chain of bookstores in Portland, Oregon, and its surrounding 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 occupies ...
Powell's City of Books is a book lover's paradise — the largest independent bookstore in the world. Located in downtown Portland, occupying an entire city block, Powell's stocks more than a million new and used books.
Buenos Aires: Bookshop Capital of the World.
Buenos Aires, with 2.8 million people, has 734 bookstores, or 25 for every 100,000 people — the highest per capita in the world.
Large states like California and Texas have the most bookstores. No surprise there. But when it comes to bookstores per capita, Montana, Wyoming, and Vermont top the list.
It's the second year in a row that Seattle has topped the list, but California reigned supreme in bookish states with three most well-read cities on the 20-city list.
US bookstore chains statistics
Powell's City of Books is the largest used and new bookstore in the world, housing approximately one million books. Powell's Books revenue is $45.0M as of 2021. Powell's Books has 500 employees, revenue per employee is $90,000. As of 2021 Books-A-Million revenue is $474.1M annually.
The largest individual bookstore in the world measured by square footage is the Barnes Noble Bookstore at 105 Fifth Ave at 18th Street, New York City, USA.
In 1893, Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne is the grandest bookshop in the world, brimming with every curiosity imaginable.
Oldest in the Country
Founded in 1745, the Moravian Book Shop is located in the heart of historic Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and is the oldest continuously operating bookstore in the country.
Located in Portugal's capital city Lisbon, Livraria Bertrand, founded in 1732, is the world's oldest bookstore that is still in operation, according to the Guinness World Records.
The Bertrand bookstore opened in Portugal in 1732, in Chiado and has held, since April 2010, the Guinness World Record for oldest bookstore still in activity.
City of Stories Home is a creative reading and writing programme in the heart of local communities in London. It discovered aspiring local writers and introduced new stories from diverse writers to audiences in library reading groups and at events.
Amazon is the largest book retailer in the world with a catalog that includes more than 33 million titles, and they will ship them just about anywhere.
The New York Times reported that Amazon controlled 50 percent of all book distribution, but for some industry suppliers, the actual figure may be much higher, with Amazon accounting for more than 70 or 80 percent of sales.
Livraria Bertrand is a Portuguese book retailer operating 59 branches nationwide, including 2 in Madeira. Founded in 1732, its original store in the Chiado neighborhood of Lisbon was declared to be the oldest operating bookstore in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2011.
Amazon.com the "world's largest bookstore" began by selling books from its website in 1995, and is now the world's largest online retailer of consumer goods.
Barnes and Noble is the largest bookstore in the United States, with over 2,500 stores. The Company also operates the BN.com website, which provides customers with access to books, magazines, and newspapers. It is estimated that Barnes and Noble sold 155 million books each year.
AMMAN — The world's largest floating library, Logos Hope, docked at the Aqaba port on Wednesday, loaded with 5,000 books on various scientific, literary and academic topics.
The City With The Most Libraries
The World Cities Culture Forum lists Warsaw, Poland, as the city with the most public libraries per capita. With 11.5 libraries per 100,000 residents, it wins out by a hair over Nanjing, China (11.2), and Seoul, South Korea (11.0).
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the United States. Above, the Library of Congress' Thomas Jefferson Building.