BookScan - the world’s first and largest continuous sales monitoring service
BookScan provides weekly point-of-sale data with the highest possible degree of accuracy and integrity. Functioning as a central clearinghouse for the US book industry, BookScan enables its subscribers to access comprehensive reports from a wide variety of perspectives.
BookScan US provides a continuous market measurement of US retail book sales based upon electronic sales data analysis. Basically, we collect point-of-sale information from a variety of retailers and make this information available to the industry. In a typical week, sales of over 300,000 different titles are collected, coded and analysed, producing complete market information for retailers, publishers and the media.
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Data supplied by Nielsen BookScan's book sales monitoring system from retailers nationwide. Sales data from 30 June 2008
About Nielsen Book
Nielsen Book has four key brands: Registration Agencies (ISBN, SAN, DOI), BookData, BookNet and BookScan. Nielsen ISBN Agency provides publisher prefixes/ISBNs to publishers based in the UK & Ireland and offer advice on how to apply and use ISBNs. Nielsen BookData provides comprehensive, enriched and timely bibliographic data worldwide to booksellers, libraries and publishers in 110 countries around the world. Nielsen BookNet provides value-added transaction services to the industry. Nielsen BookScan provides the world’s only continuous retail monitoring service for English-language books in the UK, Ireland, US, Australia, South Africa, Italy and Spain (with New Zealand and Demark due to launch shortly). The company is wholly owned by The Nielsen Company, one of the world’s largest publishing and information companies.
About The Nielsen Company
The Nielsen Company is the world's leading provider of marketing information, audience measurement, and business media products and services. By delivering an unmatched combination of insights, market intelligence, advanced analytical tools, and integrated marketing solutions, Nielsen provides clients with the most complete view of their consumers and their markets.
Headquartered in New York, USA and Haarlem, The Netherlands, Nielsen operates in more than 100 countries with a global team dedicated to helping clients compete more effectively and discover opportunity with more clarity than ever before.
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© 2008 Nielsen BookScan US
A branch of Nielsen Book Services Limited incorporated in the UK
