Music, Video, Book & Entertainment Retail Industry Competitors

Alliance Entertainment Corp. (AEC) rolls out the rock 'n' roll. The company distributes music and video items -- CDs, videos, DVDs, games, and related products -- to home entertainment retailers including Best Buy, Barnes and Noble, and Hastings Entertainment....

If you've strolled through a library recently, you likely saw a lot of Baker & Taylor (B&T) without knowing it. The #1 book supplier to libraries, B&T primarily serves two types of markets. Its core business distributes books, calendars, music, and DVDs to thousands of school, public, and specialty libraries worldwide....

Ingram Industries is heavy into books and boats. Ingram Book Group is one of the largest wholesale book distributors in the US; it ships books, as well as music, DVDs, and videos to retail outlets. It also ships internationally through its Ingram International arm....

Google may be synonymous with the search engine, but when it comes to online shopping, Amazon.co.uk has this one in the bag. Like its parent, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk offers an almost endless list of products to its online UK customers -- from music, books, and toys, to blenders, jewelry, and MP3 players....

Amazon.de, virtually launched in 1998, is the German arm of Seattle-based online book giant Amazon.com. The Internet retailer and other third-party sellers offer new and used books, CDs, videos, and DVDs. Its online catalog also lists an array of other goods: home and garden products, consumer electronics, toys, video games, software, and computer supplies....

barnesandnoble.com wants to be the Internet bookshelf's best-seller, but it's a distant #2 behind top online bookseller Amazon.com. A subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, the online retailer sells books, magazines, music, software, DVDs, videocassettes, and more....

Berean is a clean, lean, evil-fightin' machine. Berean Christian Stores operates a retail chain of some 25 shops in about 10 states, including Arizona, California, and Ohio. The stores, which target the orthodox Christian community, offer apparel, bibles and other Christian books, church supplies, computer software, gifts, music, and videotapes....

Bookworms can feast up! Blackwell UK (known as Blackwell's) operates about 60 bookshops throughout the UK under the Blackwell's and Heffers names, as well as Blackwell's Online Bookshop. Blackwell's Book Services (headquartered in the US, with offices in the UK) supplies books and bibliographic products to over 3,500 research, academic, and specialty libraries around the world....

Blackwell's Book Services wants you to be more than well-read; it wants you to actively respect the publishing industry and all that is entailed therein. Blackwell's Book Services supplies books and bibliographic products to public, academic, and research libraries around the world....

Need some Lord of the Rings or maybe the last season of Friends? Blockbuster Entertainment can definitely help out. The company, a subsidiary of the US-based movie rental giant, Blockbuster Inc., offers movie and video game rentals through about 700 stores in the UK....

Book Wholesalers, Inc., known as BWI, keeps the libraries stocked with both books and children. The company is a full service provider of children's and young adult books, e-books, and audiovisual items to more than 2,200 public library systems. BWI is a subsidiary of retail and wholesale textbook distributor Follet Corporation....

Bookazine is a full service wholesale distributor of books. The company offers access to more than 1 million titles and has specialized divisions devoted to Children's Books, Graphic Novels, Gay and Lesbian Books, Independent Presses, Transportation Center Sales, E-tailer Sales, and International Sales....

Spanning the globe to bring you ... books. Bookspan is a direct marketer of book clubs, including such familiar names as the Book-of-the-Month club, Doubleday Book Club, and the Literary Guild. Book selections are chosen by editors in various categories. Bookspan operates about 40 book clubs in several categories: general interest, lifestyles, and male specialty (history, military, sci-fi)....

Looking to browse some books and sip on a latte? Borders UK can certainly help you out. The company offers books, magazines, music, and DVDs through some 40 Borders stores in the UK. Many locations include a Starbucks cafe, as well as a mini Paperchase stationery store (a chain Borders Group bought in 2004)....

Budgetext provides college and K-12 text, trade, and reference books, as well as supplemental materials for bookstores throughout the US. The company, which distributes both new and used books, also offers administrative support to clients, including buyback services and inventory systems....

Chas. Levy keeps racking up sales. The wholesaler distributes magazines and books throughout the US, primarily in several Midwestern states and the southeastern seaboard. Having grown through acquisitions of other distributors, Chas. Levy distributes books through its Levy Home Entertainment subsidiary to retail chains including Best Buy, Kmart, Meijer, ShopKo, Stop & Shop, and Wal-Mart....

Contender Entertainment wants to provide its little customers with hours and hours of entertainment. The Contender Entertainment Group (CEG), which was acquired by Entertainment One in mid-2007, is a home video distributor and book publisher focusing on children's entertainment and television classics....

No diamond in the rough, Diamond Comic Distributors is the nation's largest distributor of comics books. The company also sells graphic novels and related collectibles to comic book stores and bookstores nationwide. Diamond promotes comic book reading by organizing, sponsoring, and supplying Free Comic Book Day when stores give away select comic books to all attendees....

Direct Holdings Worldwide (DHW) has no use for middle men. With offices in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia the company is the exclusive marketer of Time Life music, videos, DVDs, and books worldwide. DHW was formed in 2003 by investment firm Ripplewood Holdings and partner ZelnickMedia Corp. to act as the parent for housewares and novelty catalog retailer Lillian Vernon Corporation, which the two companies bought that year....

Some say book clubs are going the way of dinosaurs. As a leading direct marketer of books, music, and DVDs, DirectGroup Bertelsmann hopes that isn't the case. The company runs book clubs especially popular in Europe and Asia under such brands as Der Club in Germany, France Loisirs in France, and Circulo de Lectores in Spain....