Flipkart becomes 2nd largest bookseller; Amazon tops the list

Flipkart becomes 2nd largest bookseller; Amazon tops the list

Flipkart becomes 2nd largest bookseller; Amazon tops the listIndian e-commerce giant Flipkart has been ranked second among top book sellers of the world. This list was made by a recent survey ‘Top 40 Global Bookstore Mind Share’ which listed 40 largest book sellers. Flipkart was the only Indian bookstore in the top 10. Amazon is ruling the list with top spot. This survey considered both offline and online book stores while ranking.

Various factors considered while ranking these book sellers. Final results were finalised by standardising data from big sources like Wikipedia traffic, Google Books N-Gram and Google search term frequency. The index was based on two factors – the number of people thinking about these stores and its frequency.

This is another big achievement for the Flipkart which started its operation as an online book seller few years back in 2007. Founders were working for Amazon when they decide to start their own online book store in India.

Another online retailer Infibeam also managed to get 12th rank in this list. See the full list below.

World’s Top Bookstores 2015
#BookstoreTwitterHQ Country
1Amazon.com@amazonbooksUS
2Flipkart@FlipkartIndia
3Barnes & Noble@BNBuzzUS
4Fnac@FnacFrance
5Waterstones@waterstonesUK
6The Book Depository@bookdepositoryUK
7AbeBooks@AbeBooksCanada
8Shakespeare and Company@Shakespeare_CoFrance
9Books-A-Million@booksamillionUS
10Hay-on-Wye@Hay_On_WyeBooksUK
11WHSmith@WHSmithUK
12Infibeam@infibeamIndia
13Chapters Indigo@chaptersindigoCanada
14Powell’s Books@PowellsUS
15City Lights Bookstore@CityLightsBooksUS
16Blackwell UK@blackwellbooksUK
17National Book Store@nbsalertThe Phillipines
18Alibris@alibrisUS
19Foyles@FoylesUK
20Eslite Bookstore@esliteTaiwan
21MPH Group@M_TWEETbyMPHMalaysia
22Hudson Group@hudsonbooksUS
23Books Kinokuniya@KinokuniyaJapan
24Fishpond@FishpondcomNZ
25Strand Bookstore@strandbookstoreUS
26Hastings Entertainment@goHastingsUS
27Half Price Books@halfpricebooksUS
28Popular Holdings#popularworldSingapore
29Livraria Cultura@livculturaBrazil
30Higginbotham’s#higginbothamsIndia
31Landmark Bookstores@landmarkstoresIndia
32Hatchards@HatchardsUK
33Fopp@foppofficialUK
34Dymocks Booksellers@dymocksbooksAustralia
35Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society@harvardcoopUS
36Eason & Son@easonsIreland
37NewsLink#newslinkAustralia
38Archambault@archambaultCACanada
39Kyobo Book Centre@withKyoboBookKorea
40Hodges Figgis@Hodges_FiggisIreland

Source: The Conversation

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