- Visibility23
- Citations3
- Sentiment83
- Site quality60
- AI readiness7
AI assistants name Books-A-Million in 25% of answers, much more often than the typical company in the retail sector. Its overall score is 34 out of 100, ranking 879th of 2,047 companies. The website passes 1 of 14 technical checks for readiness for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the retail market: none named Books-A-Million. AI assistants named it in 15 of 60 answers (25.0%). The typical retail company is named in 6.7% of answers. By how often it is named, Books-A-Million ranks 116 of 640 in its sector.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
640 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“What are the best online bookstores for finding new release books in the United States?”
For readers in the United States looking for new release books, several online bookstores offer extensive selections and convenient shopping experiences:
Amazon As the largest online retailer globally, Amazon offers a vast inventory of new releases across every genre. They provide features like personalized recommendations, customer reviews, and often competitive pricing. Amazon also integrates with its Kindle Store and Audible for e-books and audiobooks, making it a comprehensive platform for all reading formats.
Barnes & Noble A well-known name in the book industry, Barnes …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.
Not by itself. Books-A-Million publishes none of the purchase protocols we look for. An agent would have to click through the checkout like a person.
- UCPNot present
- ACPNot present
- AP2Not present
- x402Not present
- MPPNot present
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPassed
An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryPassed
SVCB or HTTPS records under _agents that advertise agent endpoints.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtPassed
An llms.txt that tells language models what the site offers.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPartly met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsNot met
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 38 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 4, 2026 · booksamillion.com · 2,047 companies scanned
1 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Not metrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- Not metXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as Consumer brands.
- What are the best online bookstores for finding new release books in the United States?
- What should you do if your online book order hasn’t arrived by the promised date?
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- How do you resolve issues with damaged or misprinted books from a media retailer?
- Is it worth signing up for a bookstore membership program to get discounts and free shipping?
- Are same-day delivery book orders in the US reliable for last-minute gifts?
- How much should you expect to pay for special edition or limited release books online?
- Where can I browse trending TikTok (#BookTok) books recommended for young adults?
- Where can you find the best deals on manga box sets in the US?
- What are some alternatives to traditional bookstores for discovering new authors?
- Best options for buying autographed books and author-signed editions online?
- How does shopping for books online compare with visiting a local bookstore in terms of selection and convenience?
- Best ways to get cheap or discounted books online without a subscription service?
- What is the difference between buying special edition books and regular editions from a bookseller?
- How can parents find age-appropriate books for children and young adults online?
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.
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