Education

SalesData tracks print book sales for the Canadian trade market. LibraryData is included with access to SalesData. Pricing depends on your type of account. (Though it’s free for all contributing retailers!)

We do not provide access to SalesData for authors, students, or the general public, but we do have public resources and welcome media requests. Authors: Please read these FAQs to learn more about what tools may be right for you.

LibraryData collects weekly circulation data from over 80 public libraries across Canada representing approximately 25% of the Canadian English-language population. Library staff, their suppliers, and publishers can use LibraryData to investigate trends, identify collection opportunities, and more. SalesData is included with access to LibraryData.

Anyone can browse and search public catalogues, but CataList accounts have additional features available to support the needs of the Canadian book trade. Basic accounts are free for book retailers, librarians and professional reviewers! Tell us a bit about how you want to use CataList.

Tell us a bit more about your store.

Tell us a bit more about your library.

CataList subscriptions are available for publishers and distributors, which allows you to post catalogues and provides access to the sales toolset.

Tell us a bit about yourself and the publishers you represent.

Tell us a bit about yourself and where your reviews are published.

Tell us a bit more about yourself and your needs, and we’ll match you up with the right access.

BiblioShare is a data aggregation service for ONIX, image, and position files that provides support to the Canadian book supply chain.

Web services provide bibliographic data in various forms for blogs, retailers, media, publishers/distributors, and other websites. If you would like to access data from our BiblioShare database, please fill out this form to receive a token.

If you need a large data pull that can’t be satisfied by any of our standard BiblioShare web services, please fill out the following form and we’ll get back to you with a custom quote.

Webform is an easy-to-use online tool that allows small operations to create and manage book metadata, without messing around with complex ONIX files. Once you’ve created your records in Webform, you can export them to BiblioShare with just a few clicks.

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is an e-commerce service used by the book industry to send and receive orders, shipment notices, and returns. It makes business-to-business communication fast and easy.

BookNet Canada is the source for book market analysis, consumer research, and industry thought leadership. We regret that we cannot release sales information for specific titles, publishers, or retailers. We can provide data on the market (as a whole, by category and format), on industry trends, and on book consumer habits. Access our latest press releases.

BookNet Canada’s education offerings includes tutorials for our products as well as Tech Forum, a webinar series that focuses on technology, data-driven approaches, and collaboration in the book industry.

Standards are an essential part of a healthy supply chain. BookNet Canada consults on and develops standards with the Canadian book industry’s needs in mind.