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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Founded | Travis County, Texas (1982) |
| Founder | Gary Hoover and Steve Mathews |
| Successor | Barnes & Noble |
| Headquarters | Travis County, Texas |
Number of locations | (1989): 22 |
Key people | Patrick Spain |
| Revenue | (1989): $65 million |
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Bookstop Inc. was a Texas-based chain of bookstores that was at one time the fourth-largest bookselling chain in the United States.[1] In 1989 Barnes & Noble acquired the company, at which point it became a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble.[2] The chain also did business under the name Bookstar due to trademark conflicts in other states.
- ^ "Hoover Joins McCombs School as Entrepreneur-in-Residence Archived 2014-10-13 at the Wayback Machine" (Archive). University of Texas at Austin. September 9, 2009. Retrieved on April 7, 2014. "In 1982, Hoover founded Austin-based Bookstop, which grew to be the fourth largest bookstore chain in the nation before being acquired by Barnes & Noble in 1989."
- ^ Long, Elizabeth. Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life. University of Chicago Press, August 1, 2003. ISBN 0226492621, 9780226492629. p. 76. "Now Bookstop (a Texas-based division of Barnes & Noble),[...]"