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In case you missed it, SalesData, BookNet’s national sales tracking service for the Canadian English-language trade book market, has new features that make reporting on the performance of Canadian titles easier than ever.

The Canadian-specific data you were looking for

The days of pulling title-level reports in SalesData and LibraryData and having to manually filter the data by Canadian marker are over. Just like on the Bestseller and Popular Books reports, you can now filter your results by Canadian titles in the SalesData and LibraryData reports below.

SalesData reports:

Multiple ISBN
The Multiple ISBN Report shows ISBNs, title/subtitle/series, or author/contributor sales in multiple markets or over time. For both markets and over time selections, the user can choose from a list of markets available to their selected user group.

Gap Analysis
The Gap Analysis Reports exposes gaps in units sold, on hand (OH), and on order (OO) by comparing a user’s sales and inventory in a selected home market to a selected comparison market. It only returns titles that have bibliographic data.

LibraryData reports:

Bestseller Circ
The Bestseller Circ report allows you to see a library aggregate's circulation and inventory data ranked in Bestseller order — useful for checking up on your stock of top-selling titles.

Collection Gaps
The Collection Gaps report allows you to analyze a library's collection by comparing against another library (Compare to Library) or against the retail market (Compare to Sales), to identify titles missing from a library's collection.

Trend Analysis
The Trend Analysis report provides results for an entire category (subject and/or language) rather than title-level results. The Trend Analysis reports display over-time circulation data for entire languages or subjects to track changes in activity, and can be filtered to Canadian Contributors.

Using Canadian contributor data

Canadian Contributors are authors, illustrators, translators, or editors (in the case of an edited collection of material) who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada. They play an important role in the health of the book industry. As BookNet Canada’s President & CEO Noah Genner explains, the need to not only easily identify the books by Canadian contributors, but also be able to access data about the presence of these contributors and their book sales in the market, has a significant impact on areas related to marketing, discoverability, research, and more.

But, what are some of the things you can do with Canadian-contributor-level data at an organizational level? Let’s take a look.

Retailers can:

Stay on top of book-buying behaviour related to Canadian-authored books
Make data-informed ordering and stocking decisions about Canadian titles
Ensure the store offers a wide range of Canadian-authored books across multiple subjects and reading interests

Publishers can:

Make data-driven decisions about the acquisition of Canadian-authored titles
Keep an eye on the sales and returns of books by Canadian contributors
Get all the information needed to make printing and ordering decisions regarding Canadian books

Libraries can:

Find out what Canadian-authored titles are popular among patrons in a branch or library system
Make informed decisions about future ordering and re-ordering based on circulation data of Canadian titles
Create data-informed reading lists, displays, and social media posts promoting Canadian books

Coming soon: Even more Canadian contributor data!

Hoping to see Canadian contributor data in the Market Share and Market Comp reports? Stay tuned — these additions are coming soon!

Visit our website to learn more about SalesData and LibraryData’s capabilities, and if you’re a current user looking for ways to learn to leverage the power of these services, get in touch, we’re always happy to talk data with you!

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