Today’s guest blog post is from Erin Creasey, Sales & Marketing Director at ECW Press and the President of the Association of Canadian Publishers. Erin will be presenting a session at BookNet 101 called “Supersize Your Sales Data.” Read on for some tips on how to make your data work for you.BNC SalesData Enhancements
The Definition of a Bestseller
Making SalesData Easy on the Eyes
Regional Differences
I’m going to let you in on a little secret: BookNet Canada can produce regional bestseller lists in BNC SalesData. Yep. We could tell you what the top 10 nonfiction books are in British Columbia and they may not match up to Ontario’s top 10.
We currently only produce bestseller lists for the Canadian market as a whole. But with this new capability, things get a little more interesting. What will we find?
Proud to Be Canadian? Prove It. In ONIX.
BNC SalesData Turns 5
Agenting with SalesData
BNC SalesData is not just for book publishers and sellers. It’s an indispensible tool for literary agents, too. To be truly effective at pitching books, one has to know how published books are doing, and to really look out for your authors, you need to know what’s happening in the marketplace as it’s happening.
Capitalizing on the Giller Announcements
The Scotiabank Giller shortlist was announced on Tuesday, and people are absolutely delighted by the number of independent presses represented on this list. But many are also worried. They worry that the independents won’t know how to react. Steven Beattie wrote a thoughtful piece on the plight of the shortlisted indie publisher just yesterday. It’s true. It can be difficult for publishers without much Giller experience to know exactly what to do, when to reprint and how much. BNC can help with that—as long as a print job can be scheduled in time.
Are Hardcovers Outdated?
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda is a runaway bestseller. I’ve seen it consistently rank as a top fiction title in bestseller lists for months. At first, I didn’t know much about the book, and like many I wondered how it managed to build up so much speed.
An article in The Globe and Mail on Monday tried to demystify this phenomenon.
