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BNC SalesData is a web-based, statistics and reporting tool for use by participating members of the book industry in Canada.
BNC SalesData tracks It tracks sales data and stock information from traditional bookstore chains, online retailers, independent bookstores, academic and educational outlets, and library wholesalers, as well as from non-traditional sources such as discount and specialty stores.
Sales data and stock information Information from retail sources is collected in an anonymous database, allowing booksellers to share their sales information without exposing themselves to individual analysis by competitors. This information is then matched with bibliographic data to present complete title information for a week of sales.
Subscribers can search by title, contributor, ISBN, publisher, binding, and other criteria to create customized reports that display titles with ranking, sales volume, value, and totals of on-hand and on-order totals. Reports can be viewed on the web, charted on the site, or downloaded in CSV , or Excel format for use in offline documents and as the basis of graphs and charts.
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In addition to this anonymous, total-market reporting, retailers can choose to establish peer-to-peer reporting relationships with selected publishers, providing them with direct views of their sales history and on-hand/on-order positions for that retailer alone. This can help publishers be more responsive to the retailer’s individual supply-and-demand profile.
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Different types of accounts have different views of the data. For example, agents, wholesalers and libraries will at times see a different view than retailers. Throughout this help manual, we will call out differences for different account types when they exist. |