Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Barnes & Noble
The 20 closest book retail alternatives to Barnes & Noble, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Barnes & Noble? The closest matches are Bookshop.org, Fnac and ThriftBooks. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble barnesandnoble.com
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Wikidata: American book retailer
Summary by Claude
Online store of the US bookstore chain Barnes & Noble, selling print books, ebooks and audiobooks for its Nook devices, plus toys, games, music, movies and gifts, with in-store pickup at its roughly 600 retail locations.
- Who it’s for
- Book buyers and readers in the United States
- Business model
- Retail sales
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Barnes & Noble’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Barnes & Noble
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Barnes & Noble, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read barnesandnoble.com’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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book e-commerce website
Very close cos 0.916 - 02
fnac.com
French multinational electronics store chain
Very close cos 0.916 - 03
Polish retail company
Very close cos 0.907 - 04
Challenged | Kobo.com
Canadian subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten
Very close cos 0.901 - 05
American online electronics retailer
Very close cos 0.902 - 06
Error Page | eBay
American multinational internet corporation that manages eBay.com
Very close cos 0.902 - 07
Client Challenge
American online music distributor
Very close cos 0.899 - 08
Shoes, Sneakers, Boots, & Clothing + FREE SHIPPING | Zappos.com
Fast, FREE shipping on just-landed sneakers, boots, heels & more from your favorite brands. Now that's a win.
Very close cos 0.899 - 09
Target : Expect More. Pay Less.
Shop Target online and in-store for everything from groceries and essentials to clothing and electronics. Choose contactless pickup or delivery today.
Very close cos 0.898 - 10
American multinational technology company
Very close cos 0.896 - 11
AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles
Discover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the world.
Close cos 0.891 - 12
Wayfair.com - Online Home Store for Furniture, Decor, Outdoors & More
Shop Wayfair for A Zillion Things Home across all styles and budgets. 5,000 brands of furniture, lighting, cookware, and more. Free Shipping on most items.
Close cos 0.892 - 13
Best Buy International: Select your Country - Best Buy
Shop online at Best Buy in your country and language of choice. Best Buy provides online shopping in a number of countries and languages.
Close cos 0.889 - 14
Walmart | Save Money. Live better.
Shop Walmart.com today for Every Day Low Prices. Join Walmart+ for unlimited free delivery from your store & free shipping with no order minimum. Start your free 30-day trial now!
Close cos 0.888 - 15
leroymerlin.fr
French home improvement and gardening retailer
Close cos 0.889 - 16
South African e-commerce company
Close cos 0.888 - 17
Consoles, Collectibles, Video Games, and More – Buy, Sell or Trade | GameStop
Shop GameStop, the world's largest retail gaming and trade-in destination for Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo games, systems, consoles & accessories. Shop a wide selection of gamer-centric apparel, collectibles & more.
Close cos 0.887 - 18
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Close cos 0.885 - 19
Walgreens: Pharmacy, Health & Wellness, Photo & More for You
Your go-to for Pharmacy, Health & Wellness and Photo products. Refill prescriptions online, order items for delivery or store pickup, and create Photo Gifts.
Close cos 0.883 - 20
Shutterfly | Photo Books, Cards, Prints, Wall Art, Gifts, Wedding
Shop Shutterfly for custom photo books, prints, cards, invitations, gifts, wall art, calendars, and more. Personalize your favorite moments with high-quality, meaningful photo products.
Close cos 0.884
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to barnesandnoble.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Barnes & Noble uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Barnes & Noble is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56309d25a7b0565-HAM
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms43486183
- Proofpoint MX mxa-00189e01.gslb.pphosted.com
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a1-225.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=WAywMPm3MWiRw_mMX8O50IJbtwgzHiC_Hqya1dp6Hak
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=DC4068F72A3105BF4756F557207EE45A
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=6TNkVhoUjulxOHcPU9ooB6UKovLGWcPZnrYBscSFi70
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=kip2xem6dh35kkunaf4wy0rglzntuu
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Barnes & Noble adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Atlassian · not on barnesandnoble.com 13/20
- Apple Business 10/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Akamai Edge DNS 7/20
- Meta Business Suite 7/20
- OpenAI · not on barnesandnoble.com 7/20
- GlobalSign 6/20
- DocuSign · not on barnesandnoble.com 6/20
- Adobe · not on barnesandnoble.com 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on barnesandnoble.com 5/20
- Proofpoint 5/20
- Stripe · not on barnesandnoble.com 5/20
- React · not on barnesandnoble.com 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on barnesandnoble.com 4/20