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| Taymanfan | Jan 31 2008, 05:33 PM Post #1 |
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posted at the Whomp Swamp by san YES! THERE IS A BOOKSCAN!! HEART FULL OF SOUL SALES WILL BE TRACKED BY NEILSEN BOOKSCAN! MAKE YOUR PURCHASE COUNT..... IF YOU PURCHASE THROUGH THE SWAMP'S AMAZON LINK, THE AMAZON AFFILIATE PROGRAM WILL RETURN A PERCENTAGE TO THE SWAMP. ALL FUNDS FROM THIS PROGRAM GO TO TAYLOR CHARITIES AND PROJECTS. NIELSEN BOOKSCAN REPORTING BOOK OUTLETS: Amazon.com Buy.com Borders Walden Barnes & Noble Inc. Barnes & Noble.com Deseret Book Company Hastings Books-A-Million Follett College stores Target Kmart Costco Smaller retail chains Hundreds of general independent bookstores. Nielsen BookScan is designed to provide weekly point-of-sale data with the highest possible degree of accuracy and integrity. Functioning as a central clearinghouse for book industry data, Nielsen BookScan enables its subscribers to access comprehensive reports from a wide variety of perspectives. Most of the nation's major retailers for books are included in our panel of reporting book outlets: Borders and Walden, Barnes & Noble Inc., Barnes & Noble.com, Deseret Book Company, Hastings, Books-A-Million, Follett College stores, Buy.com and Amazon.com. Weekly sales information is also tracked from Mass merchandisers like Target, Kmart and Costco, along with smaller retail chains and hundreds of general independent bookstores. „X Nielsen BookScan collects point-of-sale information electronically from a set panel of reporting retailers and makes this information available by subscription and through a proprietary website. „X Nielsen BookScan has the best and most comprehensive data in the industry, picking up sales from over 6,500 retail locations across the country. „X Nielsen BookScan categorizes first under the headings: Adult fiction, Adult non-fiction, Children and Other. Within these categories subjects or genres are broken out further in order to reflect common subject groups such as mystery, romance, art, cooking, study aids, toddler and young adult, etc.. Nielsen BookScan uses BISAC codes, a system of over 4,000 tags devised by the Book Industry Study Group used to determine where a title falls in the subject groupings. „X Clients using Nielsen BookScan primarily are book publishers and distributors who use Nielsen BookScan in a variety of ways including: sales and marketing, inventory control, distribution control and management, title/author sales history research and acquisitions, market share reports, market trending, new title or program development, etc. „X Nielsen BookScan provides clients with continuous market data through access to a proprietary website. In addition, many clients take advantage of expanded best-seller lists or work with our staff to develop specialty ad-hoc reports. „X Nielsen BookScan US went live January 1, 2001 Data has been accumulating since that time¡Xand will never be deleted from the database. There have also been numerous enhancements to the site with new ideas and ways of providing data being explored all the time. „X Retailers are always being added to the list of participants - increasing the visibility of publishers' titles as well as enlarging the universe from which we collect data. |
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| sallyannlady | Mar 6 2008, 03:28 PM Post #2 |
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Does anyone know approximately how many copies it's sold so far? They printed off a very optimistic 400,000 copies, I think it was, and all the "nay-sayers" thought it would not sell well at all. Any ideas? |
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