Nielsen BookScan offers Australian bookselling retailers and publishers a continuous book sales measurement service. It provides - for the first time - not only real and accurate best-seller lists, but also a speedy and complete sales information database covering the general and professional/reference market in Australia.

By collecting total transactional data from book retailers at the point of sale, Nielsen BookScan ensures that detailed and highly accurate information is available on what books are selling and at what price they are being sold.

Using Nielsen BookScan’s data bookselling retailers can ensure that they:

• are stocking the best selling titles sold in Australia

• are price competitive on these titles

• have enough stock on hand of fast moving titles

• don’t order too many of slow movers

• have the right mix of special category titles

• know what impact new titles are having on their market share

• aren’t missing opportunities others are exploiting

• can measure their promotional efforts

• can compare author’s sales and publisher performance.

• Please contact Bookscan to set up an account with them if you wish to participate in this data exchange.