Previous Updates
- 1 April 2026
- 2 August 2025
- 3 March 2025
- 4 June 2024
- 5 May 2023
- 6 August 2022
- 7 September 2020
- 7.1.1 Dewey Numbers, Dewey Numbers, Dewey Numbers!
- 7.1.2 Popular Books Report: % Change in Holds
- 7.1.3 Popular Books Report: ISBNs in Downloaded/Exported Reports
- 7.1.4 Multi-ISBN Report Improvements
- 7.1.5 Bestseller Report - Downloaded Report Filenames
- 7.1.6 Upgrades to downloaded and emailed reports in Excel format.
- 7.1.7 My Reports: More Clarity about the Saved and Scheduled Status of your reports
- 7.2 July 2020
- 7.3 February 2020
- 7.4 September 2019
- 7.5 May 2018
- 7.6 March 2018
- 7.6.1 8-week Sales Summaries
- 7.6.2 % Sell Through Calculations Change
- 7.6.3 Gap Analysis Inventory Indicators
- 7.6.4 Additional Columns in the Multi-ISBN and Gap Analysis Report Results
- 7.6.5 Publisher/Imprint/Distributor list improvements
- 7.6.6 Sorting improvements — highest quantities first
- 7.6.7 Price filters in the Gap Analysis reports
- 7.7 December 2017
- 7.8 July 2017
- 7.8.1 Home Page Customization: You can now view your home page data in either Units Sold or Value Sold (List)
- 7.8.2 Home Page Graph Totals: Insights at a glance
- 7.8.3 Redesigned Single ISBN Reports: Collapsible boxes so you can get everything you want "above the fold"
- 7.8.4 The Single ISBN Multi-Market Report: View the sales of a single title in multiple markets
- 7.8.5 Email Settings: Subscribe or unsubscribe from SalesData emails from your Settings page
- 7.9 June 2017
- 7.10 January 2016
- 7.11 February 2015
- 7.12 October 2014
- 7.13 January 2014
- 7.14 November 2013
- 7.15 July 2013
- 7.15.1 Homepage
- 7.15.2 Bestseller Report
April 2026
Quick Search Improvements
The latest SalesData release includes new features in the Quick Search results page, designed to help users narrow down their results even further and to use those results to directly build other reports in SalesData and LibraryData.
New Column Options and Column Customization
To help you better find the titles you’re looking for in Quick Search results, we’ve added new column options based on feedback from users. You can still view columns for ISBN, Title, Subtitle, Series, Contributor(s), CDN contributor identifier, Publisher, Pub. Date, Format, Current Week Units Sold, and Lifetime Units Sold. Now, however, you can view additional columns such as Cover Image (available by default), Distributor, Current List Price, Subject, Page Count, Lower Age, Upper Age, and Languages.
To add new columns, simply click “Customize Columns” found at the top of the Quick Search table results.
This will open the Customize columns pop-up window, which you can use to add or remove columns as needed. Simply select, or deselect, the desired column and click “Apply changes”.
Like with other SalesData and LibraryData reports, you can save your column changes by clicking “Use columns below for My Defaults”. Selecting this option means that the next time you use Quick Search, you will automatically see those columns without needing to make any manual changes.
Column Sorting
We’ve also made some changes to the sorting logic in Quick Search, so that it’s more consistent with other reports in SalesData and LibraryData. Your quick search results will automatically be sorted in descending order by Current Week Units Sold. Clicking any of the column headers once will sort the table in either descending or ascending order by the values in that column, depending on the column. Clicking twice will sort the table in the opposite order by the values in that column. The column header by which the data is being sorted will change colour. An arrow next to the header will appear showing whether the data is in ascending (arrow pointing up) or descending (arrow pointing down) order.
Column Filters
You can now also use column filters to narrow your results down even further! Each column in Quick Search results - with the exception of Cover Image - now has a filter option. The filter type available differs depending on each column.
For example, use the text-based filters on the ISBN, Title, Subtitle, Series, Contributor, Publisher, or Distributor columns by typing in text to narrow down your results. You will see that your results have been narrowed down to include ISBNs that include that text in the corresponding bibliographic data.
You can use the CDN dropdown to find titles where the contributors have been marked as Canadian. Select “Yes” to filter results down to contributors marked as Canadian. Select “No” to filter results down to contributors NOT marked as Canadian. Select “All” to see all results.
To filter by Pub Date, simply select a start and/or end date from the available calendar picker.
To filter by Format or Subject, use the available dropdown menu to access the Format and Subject trees. Use the arrow icons beside the main headings to open the tree. The formats and subjects that are listed are limited to those that appear in your Quick Search results. To select an entire category, select the top-level subject or format. To select one or more individual format types or subjects, click the checkboxes beside the ones you want to see in the report.
You can use the available range sliders to filter based on ISBNs within a particular Current List Price, Page Count, Current Week Units Sold, or Lifetime Units Sold range. Simply drag the min and max selectors - dragging either one to the left will decrease the value while dragging either one to the right will increase the value. The displayed min and max indicators will update as you move the sliders.
Narrow down your results to titles within a particular age range by selecting from the Lower Age or Upper Age dropdown menus. The ages that are listed are limited to those that appear in your Quick Search results. To select one or more individual ages, click the checkboxes beside the ages you want to see in the report. To see all ages, select “Check All”.
And finally, you can limit your results to titles with a particular Language by selecting from the language dropdown menu. The languages that are listed are limited to those that appear in your Quick Search results. To select one or more individual languages, click the checkboxes beside the languages you want to see in the report. To see all languages, select “Check All”.
And that’s a lot of filters! In order to quickly remove any applied filters, we’ve also added a “Clear Filters” button at the top of your tabled results. Once clicked, your table will refresh with your original results and with no filters in place.
Run a Report with Search Results
We’ve also added the capability for you to use any ISBNs in your quick search results to run other SalesData or LibraryData reports - either a Bestseller and Multiple ISBN reports in SalesData or a Popular Books report in LibraryData.
To do so, simply select your ISBNs as needed from the newly-added ISBN selection column. To select all ISBNs, click the “select all” check box in the column header once. Clicking the “select all” check box a second time will deselect all ISBNs.
Alternatively, if you’d like to use individual ISBNs (rather than all ISBNs), you can click the check box for each ISBN as needed. You will notice that the “select all” check box updates so that it’s filled in with a horizontal line to indicate that some (but not all ISBNs) are selected.
Once your ISBNs have been selected, you will be able to select a report from the “Create a Report with selected ISBN(s)” dropdown menu button at the top of your results table.
To run a Bestseller report: Select “Create a Bestseller Report” from the dropdown menu and click “Run Report”
To run a Multiple ISBN report: Select “Create a Multiple ISBN Report” from the dropdown menu and click “Run Report”
To run a Popular Books report: Select “Create a Popular Books Report” from the dropdown menu and click “Run Report”
Once you’ve clicked “Run Report”, you will be taken to the Criteria page of your chosen report type. You will see your selected ISBNs appearing in the ISBN criteria filter.
Adjust your markets, reporting period, and other filter options as needed, then click “Run Report” to view your results!
Copy ISBNs from Search Results
You can also use your selected ISBNs to copy ISBNs to your clipboard! Once your ISBNs have been selected, simply click “Copy Selected ISBNs” at the top of your results table. Note that you will only be able to use the “Copy Selected ISBNs” button once your ISBNs have been selected - otherwise, it will remain greyed out.
Once you have successfully copied your ISBNs to your clipboard, you will see a confirmation message in the bottom left-hand corner of your screen that says: “ISBN(s) copied to clipboard”. From there, you can paste your ISBNs into another space, such as Excel.
August 2025
Dewey Number Biblio Corrections
Have you noticed anything new in SalesData and LibraryData lately? Users can now submit biblio corrections for Dewey Numbers!
If you notice that a title has an incorrect or missing Dewey Number data, please let us know! You can now report these errors when clicking Report Bibliographic Errors on the Single ISBN report page results.
Once you have made your changes and hit send, your bibliographic data correction will be submitted to SalesData's bibliographic team for review. We will follow up with Bowker Books In Print to ensure the corrections are handled appropriately, or contact you if we need more information.
March 2025
Page Count Search Filters and Columns
You may have noticed some changes in SalesData and LibraryData recently! Users can now filter your results by page count on all of the following reports:
Bestseller
Multi-ISBN
Gap Analysis
Popular Books
Collection Gaps
Bestseller Circ
To search by page count, simply enter a minimum and/or maximum page count value in our new text boxes:
For any of these reports, you can also now add a Page Count column. If you would like to display Page Count data in your SalesData reports, open the Customize Columns dialog in the report results screen, and check the checkbox to add it.
You can also find this information in the Page Count biblio fields on the following reports
Single ISBN: Found under Bibliographic Data (previously under the More Bibliographic Data)
Book Activity: Found in the ISBN Cluster table (previously under the Full Bibliographic Data pop-up)
Updates to Column Sorting Logic
Based on feedback we’ve heard in our advisory groups, we’ve also made some changes to the sorting logic across all of our reports. In most columns with numeric values, such as Units Sold for example, users are now able to sort the data in descending order on the first click. By clicking the column a second time, users can view the data in ascending order.
As part of this work, we’ve also added some visual aids to make it more clear to our users which column the data is being sorted on by default. For example, if you run a Market Comparison report and rank your reports by Units Sold on the criteria page, then the Units Sold column will automatically be highlighted:
June 2024
Lower Age, Upper Age, and Audience Columns on ALL Title-Level Reports
Often requested, and now delivered! You can now add optional Lower Age, Upper Age, and Audience columns to the following reports:
Bestseller
Multi-ISBN
Gap Analysis
Popular Books
Collection Gaps
Bestseller Circ
To add any of these new columns, open the Customize Columns dialog in the report results screen, and check the checkbox to add it.
You can also find this information when viewing a title’s Full Bibliographic Data details on the following reports:
Single ISBN
Book Activity
Reporting Lower Age & Upper Age Bibliographic Errors
If you notice that a title has incorrect age data please let us know! You can now report bibliographic errors for both Lower Age and Upper Age when clicking Report Bibliographic Errors on the Single ISBN report page results.
Once you have made your changes and hit send, your bibliographic data correction will be submitted to SalesData's bibliographic team for review. We will follow up with Bowker Books In Print to ensure the corrections are handled appropriately, or contact you if we need more information.
Download Only Option for (Some) Custom Reporting Periods
To ensure you have a smooth experience when pulling reports with us, we’ve enforced a download only option when pulling reports with a Custom reporting period that spans 208 weeks or more. This applies to the following reports only:
Bestseller
Gap Analysis
Collection Gaps
Bestseller Circ
This means you will no longer be able to pull these reports in the UI but will have to download them directly to your computer from the Report Criteria page by clicking “Download/Email Now”.
May 2023
Top 500 Subjects Search
Save yourself valuable clicking time by switching on the new Top 500 Subjects toggle, which allows you to pull a full list of top subjects according to your search criteria
Additional Filters
A new set of optional filters allows you to narrow down your Market Comp and Market Share reports further than ever before. By applying these filters you can limit your results to titles with Canadian contributors, to titles with specific subject categories or formats, or titles associated with a particular publisher or distributor. Try on different combinations to get the perfect fit!
Rank by ISBN Count
This new column in your Market Comp and Market Share reports shows the total ISBN count for single-week data. Now you can know for sure whether a spike in sales reflects overall growth (high ISBN count), or if it’s a handful of heavy-hitters tipping the scales (low ISBN count).
August 2022
Canadian Contributor Filters on ALL Title-Level Reports
Often requested, and now delivered! Just like on the Bestseller and Popular Books reports, you can now filter your results by Canadian titles in the below reports:
Multi-ISBN
Gap Analysis
Bestseller Circ
Collection Gaps
This change will better allow you to surface and discover results for Canadian-authored titles. Give them a try on your favourite report today!
Trend Analysis Report Improvements: Canadian Contributor Filters and Additional Reporting Period Options
Like the reports above, the Trend Analysis report has also picked up Canadian Contributor filter capability.
We’ve also added two new reporting period options: Snapshot, which shows circulation over a broad spectrum of time periods: the current week, last week, this year to date, last year to date, all of last year, and all of the previous year.
We’ve also added the Year over Year reporting option, which allows you to see the same month or quarter’s circulation over the past years, or the year to date over the past years, or full years.
September 2020
Dewey Numbers, Dewey Numbers, Dewey Numbers!
You want ‘em, we’ve got 'em! You can now add a Dewey Number bibliographic data column to any title-level data report in SalesData and LibraryData, including:
Bestseller Report
Multi-ISBN Report
Gap Analysis Report
Popular Books Report
Collection Gaps Report
Bestseller Circ Report
To add a Dewey Number column, open the Customize Columns dialog in any report results screen, and check the checkbox to add it!
Popular Books Report: % Change in Holds
In the Popular Books report you can now add a column showing the % change in holds between the report week and the prior week – handy for seeing titles with a huge surge in reader demand!
Popular Books Report: ISBNs in Downloaded/Exported Reports
Now when you download or email a Popular Books report, a column showing the ISBNs present in each ISBN cluster appears in the Excel grid. ISBNs for everyone!
Multi-ISBN Report Improvements
In Multi ISBN reports with multi-week reporting periods, you can now see the On Hand information for the most recent week in the selected period.
Bestseller Report - Downloaded Report Filenames
When you download a bestseller report from SalesData.ca, the filename now includes either: the week-ending date of the selected reporting week or the start and end dates of a multi week period.
Upgrades to downloaded and emailed reports in Excel format.
If you often download reports in Excel format - great news! We've made some upgrades to the download format to make Excel exports from SalesData & LibraryData easier to work with. Notably:
Blank cells will properly register as "Blanks" when using tools like Find > Go to Special > Blanks
Numerical columns are formatted as numbers, and can be automatically summed, averaged, and counted in Excel's bottom toolbar.
If you use any pre-saved macros, you may want to check that they will still work with these changes.
My Reports: More Clarity about the Saved and Scheduled Status of your reports
The My Reports page now includes additional information about your saved reports, particularly some additional clarity around whether they have been Shared to any colleagues or are set as part of a Scheduled Email.
If a report IS shared or scheduled, you will see "View/Edit" in the "Share Report" and "Schedule Email" columns.
If a report IS NOT shared or scheduled, you will see "Share" or "Schedule" in those columns.
This can help you remember if other colleagues may be receiving or using your reports before you make changes to or delete a saved report.
July 2020
How to Hard Reset your Browser if the SalesData site isn't loading properly:
We did a feature release on the SalesData site overnight, so there may be a conflict between the version online now and the version in your browser's cache that might cause some issues.
Clearing your browser's cache or doing a "hard reload" should solve the issue.
On Chrome, you can do a hard reload by opening View > Developer > Developer Tools, and then right-clicking on the reload icon (the circular arrow next to the URL bar) and selecting "Empty Cache and Hard Reload"
On Edge: Hold down the Ctrl key and then press your F5 key, or, hold down the Ctrl key and then click the Refresh button.
On Firefox: Hold down the Ctrl Key and then press F5, or hold down the Shift key and Ctrl key, and then press the R key.
Need some additional help? Hard reload not solving your issues? Reach out to us at salesdata@booknetcanada.ca and we'd be happy to help!
With that settled - onto the new features!
Scheduled Emailed Reports: New Delivery Frequency
Until now, when you scheduled an emailed report in SalesData & LibraryData, your only option was to receive the report weekly. Now, you can select Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly delivery schedules as well! This feature is available on all SalesData & LibraryData reports.
To set up an scheduled emailed report on the new delivery schedule options, click on the Save/Distribute button on any SalesData or LibraryData report results page.
From there, fill in your report's Save details (name and reporting period), Share details (if needed), and then, on the Schedule Email settings popup, you'll see the new Frequency selection option. Select your desired delivery schedule, and save your report!
When will my saved reports come?
If you select weekly frequency, you'll continue to receive your report each week when the data goes live.
If you select monthly frequency, you'll receive your report as soon as data for the last week in the month has been released. We use ISO standard month definitions in SalesData & LibraryData and our research reports, like the monthly report. To put it simply - the week containing the last Thursday of a month is the last week of the month.
If you select quarterly frequency, you'll receive your report as soon as data for the last week in the quarter has been released.
If you select annual frequency, you'll receive your report as soon as data for the last week in the calendar year has been released.
My Reports: More info about your beloved saved reports!
The My Reports page now includes additional information about your saved reports, including the Date Modified, highlighting the last date you made changes to the report, and the Delivery Frequency, so you can see which reports you're scheduled to receive weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly.
New Feature Webinar: July 7
A recording of the webinar is available here
February 2020
Over Time: Snapshot Reporting Periods now include Last Year to Date (LYTD)
When you select the “Snapshot” reporting period in the Multi-ISBN, Market Comp, or Market Share report, the results columns in your report now include Last Year to Date alongside the total sales for last year and the previous year, giving the YTD number a useful comparator against the previous year.
Over Time: Year over Year reporting now allows Year-to-Date over Year to Date comparison
When you select the “Year over Year” reporting period in the Multi-ISBN, Market Comp, or Market Share report, you can now compare Year to Date to the same number of weeks in each of the previous 9 years. This is a great tool to evaluate how you’re doing over the course of a year, and how it stacks up against the same time last year!
Top tip: Set up a saved report using the Year To Date Year over Year selection to get a quick update each week!
Popular Request: The On-Order column is now available in the Multi-ISBN Report!
The Research Portal has had a makeover as well! Now you can see and download our newest research right from the SalesData homepage.
That’s right! You asked, we answered. At long last, the On Order column is available in the Multi-ISBN report for single-week reporting periods. Paired up with the Searchable Criteria and Rolling Pub Date options, this makes the Multi-ISBN report even more powerful for tracking forthcoming and currently-selling titles.
September 2019
Coming soon: LibraryData!
The SalesData login screen's had a bit of a makeover as we start preparing for the launch of our LibraryData service — don't fret! Your SalesData access and all the reports you know and love, including your saved reports, remain.
You may notice a few other "nods" toward LibraryData throughout the site as we work toward our launch. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at librarydata@booknetcanada.ca for more information.
Revamped Research Portal
The Research Portal has had a makeover as well! Now you can see and download our newest research right from the SalesData homepage.
Stock Turn Calculations
The Stock Turn column can be selected in the Bestseller and Gap Analysis reports. After consultations with stakeholders, we've updated the calculation used for Stock Turn.
The old Stock Turn calculation was: Summed Sold over the selected period / Summed OH over the selected period x 52 weeks
The new Stock Turn calculation is: Avg. Vol Sold over selected period / most recent OH
Author/Contributor Search: Now with semicolon delimiters!
Now, when you use the Author/Contributor search field in the Bestseller or Multi-ISBN reports, you can paste in a list of multiple contributors, separated by semicolons, to complete the search.
For example, this list...
Andrew Kaufman; O'Connell, Grace; John Grisham; Atwood, Margaret; Laura Cok
...becomes this, after being pasted into the Author/Contributor search field:
May 2018
Multi-ISBN Report: Searchable Criteria
We've overhauled the "by Title/Series/Subtitle" and "by Author/Contributor" tabs of the Multi-ISBN Report and consolidated them into one robust option: the new Searchable Criteria tab.
The Searchable Criteria tab allows you to select the attributes of the ISBNs you'd like to see in your report. You can specify any of the below criteria, either on its own or in combination with the others:
Title/Subtitle/Series
Author/Contributor
Publisher
Imprint
Distributor
Subject
You can also specify a pub date range for your ISBNs using our pre-canned options, including forthcoming titles, those published in the last 4/13/52 weeks, and any dates, or you can set your own custom pub date range, to further isolate titles in specific spans.
Using these powerful new criteria options you can target titles from a specific publisher (or group of publishers) in a specific subject that were all published in the same period, and compare their sales over time or by markets, all in one fell swoop. Pretty neat, huh?
Multi-ISBN Report: Rolling Pub Dates in Saved/Scheduled Reports
In the new Multi-ISBN Report, you can harness the power of automation to bring you exactly the ISBNs you're looking for, automatically by email each week when our fresh data goes live. To make these saved reports even more robust, we've added a "rolling" pub date option to the Saved Reports function, so as the weeks move along, the pub dates of the ISBNs contained in that report do too.
To use the dynamic pub date option, just use the number pickers to set a range that includes a certain number of previous weeks, by using the Most recent X week(s), and a certain number of future weeks, by using the Forthcoming X week(s). In this example, you can see that our pub date filter will capture the past four weeks and the next two weeks. And the following week's emailed report will "roll" those weeks ahead — and so on and so forth.
These dynamic pub dates allow you to set up automatic reports that will track the sales of frontlist and forthcoming titles, without having to return to the Multi-ISBN Report with a list of ISBNs each week. Using the rolling pub date options in conjunction with any of the other searchable criteria, like subject or distributor, allows you to zero in on exactly the ISBNs you want to see.
Additional Bibliographic Data Columns in the Multi-ISBN Report
We've added the below bibliographic data columns to the Multi-ISBN report results - you can now turn these columns on or off using the "Customize Columns" options in your Multi-ISBN report results, along with any of the other results columns available:
My Titles
Series Vol Number
Canadian Author Flag
Imprint
Distributor
Primary Format
Original List Price
BISAC Code
March 2018
8-week Sales Summaries
Looking for initial 8 or 13 weeks of sales in SalesData? We've got you covered in both the Single ISBN and Multi-ISBN reports.
In the Single ISBN Week By Week Report, you can now see the 8-week sales summary in your selected market in the "Sales Summary" box right below a title's bibliographic data.
In the Multi-ISBN report, use the "Initial weeks from first sale dates" or "Initial weeks from publication dates" reports, shown here.
In your report results, you will get the first 13 weeks of sale broken out week by week, but also three summary columns: Weeks 1-8, Weeks 1-13, and Weeks 1-52. (These will also include presales if you chose the "Initial weeks from publication dates" option).
Looking for other 8-week figures?
In nearly every SalesData report (including Bestseller, Single ISBN Multi Market, and Gap Analysis), you can select custom reporting periods, including 8-week spans, using the handy calendar picker. Just select "Custom" from the drop-down menu, and then select your number of weeks. A helpful message appears telling you how many weeks you've selected, just in case you're not sure:
% Sell Through Calculations Change
The calculation used for the % Sell Through figures in SalesData has been modified.
Previously, % Sell Through was calculated using on-hand / units sold for a given period.
We have updated this to better reflect the marketplace and the data we have available to better account for copies that may have been received and sold during a week period. This change better reflects sell through, especially for new books.
The calculation is now: Units sold in the given period / (On Hand in the given period + Units Sold in the given period)
So, for a book this week that has 10 Units Sold and 50 copies On Hand:
10 / (50+10) = 16% sell through
This calculation is in effect for every report run through the SalesData user interface. Any reports you have had emailed or downloaded in the past will be using the old calculation.
Gap Analysis Inventory Indicators
We recently added asterisk ( * ) indicators to markets in the Gap Analysis reports that indicate whether a market's inventory data is available to you for Gap Analysis reporting.
These asterisks now appear not only in the drop-down market selectors on the criteria page, but also on the results page and in your exported results, to better surface this information for you!
Additional Columns in the Multi-ISBN and Gap Analysis Report Results
In the Multi-ISBN report, "Current List Price" and "Languages" are now among the many bibliographic data column options you can select using the "Customize Columns" option.
In Gap Analysis reporting, "Stores Reporting" is now among your column options, when available for your selected market.
Publisher/Imprint/Distributor list improvements
If you've ever used the Publisher, Imprint or Distributor filters in SalesData reports like the Bestseller, Market Comp, Market Share, and Gap Analysis reports, you may have noticed that the autocomplete lists were very long and full of entities with no associated titles.
No longer! We've improved the list filtering and sorting to show only Publishers, Distributors, and Imprints with at least one title associated. This should make it easier to find exactly the entities you're looking for. Happy Filtering!
Sorting improvements — highest quantities first
In the Bestseller, Multiple ISBN and Single ISBN reports, quantity columns, including Units Sold, Value Sold, ASP, % Change, On Hand, On Order, and others, will now sort with the highest quantity first if you click on the column header on the report results pages.
Price filters in the Gap Analysis reports
You can now filter your Gap Analysis results based on the list price of each title in your Comp Market. This allows you to identify gaps in your home market within a specific price point.
Go forth and Gap Analyze with abandon!
December 2017
Gap Analysis: Buying Gaps
When setting up a Buying Gaps report, you may notice that some markets' names in the "Select a home market" dropdown are now followed by an asterisk (*):
Markets with an asterisk have insufficient inventory data, usually because one or more of the retailers contributing to that aggregate don't supply inventory data. This means the Buying Gaps report may return titles that are in stock in the selected home market, since the inventory data we have is incomplete and therefore can't be verified. The Buying Gaps report will always return titles that have no sales reported in the selected home market.
Gap Analysis: Inventory Performance
The "Select a home market" dropdown in the Inventory Performance Gap Analysis report has also been modified so you can more easily identify markets with complete and actionable inventory data available — after all, you can only analyze inventory performance if you have data about a market's inventory!
To make your Inventory Performance home market selection process speedier, we've marked aggregates with unavailable inventory data with an asterisk (*), and you will not be able to run Inventory Performance reports on home markets without inventory data.
Update your saved passwords!
The password for the SalesData Research Portal has changed, so if you want access to all of BookNet's subscriber-only research reports you'll want to swing by the Research Portal box in the right-hand sidebar of the home page for the new password.
July 2017
Home Page Customization: You can now view your home page data in either Units Sold or Value Sold (List)
Your selection between Value and Units is saved until the next time you change it, so you see the data in the measure that's most useful to you.
Home Page Graph Totals: Insights at a glance
See totals for the over-time line graph and top-subjects bar graph at a glance, in your chosen measure.
Redesigned Single ISBN Reports: Collapsible boxes so you can get everything you want "above the fold"
Clicking the circled-arrow icons expands and collapses the Bibliographic Data and Sales Summary bars. Like the Single ISBN sales graph, the site will remember your preference for your next Single ISBN report.
The Single ISBN Multi-Market Report: View the sales of a single title in multiple markets
You can access this new report from the Single ISBN criteria screen or through the "Change to Multi Market View" button on any Single ISBN Week-by-Week report.
Email Settings: Subscribe or unsubscribe from SalesData emails from your Settings page
You may have noticed that we haven't been in touch very much lately. We've now given you the ability to opt-in to hearing from us more regularly.
Pop over to your Settings page (in the left-hand menu on the SalesData site) to subscribe or unsubscribe from SalesData mailing lists.
June 2017
The Inventory Performance Gap Analysis report now allows filtering by setting a units-sold threshold in the Home Market.
Search results and the Multi-ISBN report now include a Publisher column.
When you select Year to Date as your Reporting Period, the number of weeks will now be displayed.
January 2016
Launched the new SalesData site!
New features:
There are features on the SalesData home page, including a company sales summary and new graphs.
The Title/ISBN Report from our old system has been changed to the Single ISBN Report in the new SalesData. We have updated the column choices, added charted results to the report page, and made some changes to the search parameter options.
The Title Trend report and Titles by Market report have been combined and changed to the Multiple ISBN Report.
Some of our reports now have tabs to help set up the criteria.
In a Single ISBN Report, you have the option to report any bibliographic errors you find. We have updated our pop-up, so take a look at the new options and keep an eye out for errors or typos!
Our sharing options have been updated and changed for the new SalesData. You can use these handy tools on any report page to download or email a report to someone, whether or not they are part of your user group, to share the parameters of your report with your user group, or to set up scheduled emails containing updated reports to be delivered to people in (and out of) your user group.
You now have the ability to download multiple things at once while still using the rest of the SalesData website.
Both the Bestseller Report and the Single ISBN Report have the option to customize columns, which allows you to turn columns on or off in the results table, as well as to save a preset, custom column arrangement.
The Quick Search function, located on the far right of the SalesData header, is a powerful search tool that allows you to enter any author name, book title, subtitle, series name, or ISBN to quickly see results based on lifetime sales and sorted by units sold in the current week. The new search tool is faster, and we have updated our results page!
There are plenty of new, hidden features in the search criteria for all the reports in the new SalesData. Here are a few of them:
Set start and/or end dates for the Bestseller Report
Apply new search filters like "only show titles with illustrations" and more
Use our format and subject search trees (with exact BISAC codes for subjects)
Set up detailed criteria for a Bestseller report
Specify the publisher in the Market Share Report
Use our new preset time frames in certain reports (e.g., snapshot, consecutive weeks/months/quarters, year-over-year)
February 2015
General
Updated Retailer List for January 2015
All Reports
Export tool update: All reports export to native Excel now.