Products made for book people

SalesData & LibraryData™

More intelligence for better business

Everything you need to know about circulation stats, trends, and collection opportunities in Canadian libraries. LibraryData collects weekly circulation data from over 85 public library systems across Canada. SalesData is a service that gathers weekly point-of-sales data from over 2,000 retail outlets in Canada and lets you see what’s happening in the Canadian trade print market.

• Share your library’s circulation data and collection stats with partners you choose. Empower your library wholesaler or publisher sales reps to use your circulation data to tailor their recommendations for your ARP or next sales meeting, with no special reports needed from your library teams.
• Add hidden gems to your collection. Find books missing from your collection that are top-performing at other libraries or in the retail market using the Collection Gaps report.
• Be the first to know each week’s popular books. Set up the reports you want to see and have them automatically emailed to you each week for set-it-and-forget-it updates. Your data will also contribute to Loan Stars, the readers’ advisory tool that allows libraries across Canada to indicate popular upcoming titles.
• Insights into the Canadian retail market. Compare circulation data in LibraryData to the retail market using SalesData, and examine retail trends by genre, regions, authors, and more.
• Subscriber-only research. Your subscription gives you access to exclusive reports in our Research Portal, such as our monthly market snapshots and annual Canadian literary award reports. Upon sign up we’ll send you a free copy of our annual market research report, The Canadian Book Market, plus an in-depth study of perennial bestsellers right away.

CataList™

Browse catalogues and create book orders easily

Want a sneak peek of new books before they’re released? Librarians and library staff have free trade access in CataList to exclusive advance content, such as digital galleys, advanced reading copy request tools, and book excerpts to guide your purchasing decisions.

• Stay up-to-date. Find the newest title listings in publishers’ frontlist catalogues. Browse or use the one-click reports on the CataList home page to find upcoming new releases for all publishers month-by-month.
• Everything in one place. Publishers can share interior spreads, reading guides, book club kits, and author tour information, right in the system. And our partnership with NetGalley means you can request ARCs while browsing the catalogues.
• Find the books you’re looking for. The powerful search allows you to refine by geographic region, contributor locations, and more. You can even refine results to show titles with reading group guides or teacher’s guides.
• Create and share your own selections. Take advantage of the half-million book listings to create print-ready PDFs for any holiday or theme. Customize the layout and bibliographic data, save your templates for reuse on future lists, and share them with your colleagues.
• Curated catalogues. CataList has partnerships with many industry associations, making it easy for you to find curated catalogues such as Books For Everybody, Forest of Reading and other awards catalogues, catalogues of regional titles, and more.
• Optimize your ordering process. Create book orders, share with your team and sales representatives, and export MARC records with or without order details in the 970 line for import into your ILS.

BiblioShare™

Quality-assured metadata spread far and wide

BiblioShare is a quality-controlled aggregation system that collects and disseminates bibliographic data using ONIX throughout the Canadian market.

• Quality-assured bibliographic data. It’s within reach when you access the BiblioShare web services.
• All in one place. BiblioShare collects ONIX records, cover images, position files, and supplementary materials like samples, teacher’s guides, and more, for any book available in the Canadian market — with over 4 million product records and counting! Data users only need to come to this one authoritative source.
• Enhance your library’s online catalogue and marketing efforts. Take advantage of BiblioShare’s image services to receive cover and author images, interior images and layouts, samples and excerpts, and more to power your online catalogue, create marketing collateral, and fill the gaps in your catalogue.
• Support for ISNI. Take advantage of linked data and the semantic web by exploring ISNI, an identifier that differentiates creators and their works, books and beyond. BookNet’s bibliographic database includes ISNI information for many creators. And BookNet offers documentation and education about this internationally-supported standard.