About SalesData Reports

Bestseller Report

What it is: A Bestseller Report shows how titles are selling in the overall market or at specific retailers. You can view sales in a given time frame with options to narrow your report by criteria like subject category, format, pub date, and price range, or you can view sales for a specific title or list of authors, titles, or ISBNs.

What it isn't: SalesData is not a complete history of all sales of all books across Canada for all time. SalesData launched in October 2005 with a select retail panel that has grown and changed over time, much like the book marketplace as a whole. Sales data is not a reliable predictor of the future performance of a writer or their work.

Who should use it:

publishers, distributors, sales agents, and wholesalers who want to see how titles are selling in the market to inform reprint or shipping decisions
publishers who are reviewing a category that is new to them, for price point or format analysis
retailers or librarians who are trying to build out a category in their store or a subject area in their library
retailers who are providing a provincial or store breakdown and who want to do some regional analysis on the data outside the system
literary agents who want to understand an author's full body of work regardless of publisher

Features:

reports can be run for the whole market or by specific retailers
advanced search criteria includes: Canadian titles; titles with illustrations or bibliographic data; units sold; list price; pub date; format; subject category; and by author/publisher/imprint/distributor
search by single or multiple ISBNs
stock turn in multi-week reports
% sell-through in single-week reports
BISAC subject analysis
title and contributor keyword searching
date of first sale and date of first on-hand

Single ISBN Report

What it is: A Single ISBN Report provides a full bibliographic record and complete sales history for a title, either in the overall market, for a specific retailer, or for sales comparison among the retailers the account is permitted to see.

What it isn't: Data can be exported, but it is not an aggregate sales report.

Who should use it:

anyone who wants to review the complete sales history for a title
publishers who want to compare week-over-week inventory and sales in one view
retailers who want to see who supplies a book or what the cover of the book looks like

Features:

review comparable sales across retailers in a week, in the context of year-to-date and lifetime sales, with additional information about date of first sale and date of first on-hand
allows a user to see if there have been any media appearances that might have influenced sales in a week

Multiple ISBN Report

What it is: A Multiple ISBN Report provides the sales for multiple ISBNs over time or across markets. You can provide a list of ISBNs, or search by author/contributor or title/subtitle/series.

What it isn't: A detailed overview of each ISBN with bibliographic data and charts, similar to the Single ISBN Report. However, you can generate a Single ISBN Report by clicking on any ISBN listed in a Multiple ISBN Report.

Who should use it:

publishers or distributors who want to compare sales for a specific list of ISBNs
any user who wants to compare sales for multiple editions of the same title or by the same author
retailers who want to review how a publisher or distributor's recommendations fared from sale date

Features:

search by a specified list of ISBNs, by author/contributor, or by title/subtitle/series
compare sales for each ISBN in the overall market or in specific markets
view a snapshot of sales for your list of ISBNs over multiple time periods, including the current week, previous week, YTD, the last two years, and lifetime
click on any ISBN in the generated list to run a Single ISBN Report

Market Comparison Report ("Market Comp")

What it is: A Market Comparison Report allows you to select any number of markets you have access to, from the overall market down to specific stores, and compare their sales performance by subjects, formats, publishers, imprints, distributors, or over time. If you are a publisher, distributor or sales agent, the results will be restricted to your own sales.

What it isn't: Graphs. Data can be viewed in a table in the system or exported in an XLS or CSV file for offline analysis.

Who should use it:

publishers and distributors who want to compare how their sales fare in different markets
publishers who want to understand how their imprints' sales fare in different markets
distributors who want to understand how their publishers' sales fare in different markets
retailers who want to compare how publishers, distributors, subjects, or formats fare in their store(s)
anyone who wants to compare their sales over multiple time periods

Features:

select any combination of markets to compare, as long as you have access to them
highly customizable: choose any number of subjects, formats, publishers, imprints, or distributors to view units sold or value sold for your selected markets
run a report for any timeframe, from a particular week to a full year

More on using Market Comparison Reports.

Market Share Report

What it is: A Market Share Report presents a view of the overall share of the Canadian market by a particular publisher, distributor, subject, or format. It can also provide quick lists of Top 500 publishers or distributors over time.

What it isn't: It does not offer a view of any market other than "All Markets".