Bookshops of the United Kingdom

Hay-on-Wye, or simply Hay (; or simply ), is a market town and community in Powys, Wales. With over twenty bookshops, it is often described as a "town of books"; it is both the National Book Town of Wales and the site of the annual Hay Festival. The community had a population of 1,675 at the 2021 census.

WH Smith plc, trading as WHSmith (also written WH Smith and formerly as W. H. Smith & Son), is a British travel retailer, with headquarters in London, England, which operates a chain of railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionery.

Waterstones Booksellers Limited, trading as Waterstones (formerly '''Waterstone's'''), is a British book retailer based in London, United Kingdom, owned by the American investment group Elliott Investment Management. It operates 317 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and other nearby countries. it employed over 3,600 staff in Britain and Europe. The average Waterstones branch sells a range of approximately 30,000 individual books, as well as stationery and other related products.

international book and music retailer (1971-2011)

UK-based online book seller

former retail music chain based in Sacramento, California

Canadian subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten