BNC SalesData: Report On Canadian Book Sales
F2010 Q3 (July – September 2010)
TORONTO – November 15, 2010 – In the third quarter of 2010, both volume and value were down again overall compared to 2009. Fiction and non-fiction were down in both volume and value. Juvenile was also down in both units and dollars, but much less than in the previous quarter.
Total market (All):
Volume: -3.31%
Value: -4.30%
Fiction (All):
Volume: -4.15%
Value: -4.22%
Non-Fiction (All):
Volume: -5.17%
Value: -7.22%
Juvenile (All):
Volume: -2.56%
Value: -2.03%
All figures for this report have been drawn from BookNet Canada’s national book sales tracking system, BNC SalesData, using the year-over-year sales from a fixed panel of 665 retail locations from across the country.
We maintain this 665-store subset of our 1600 reporting stores, also known as a ring fence, which includes only stores that have been contributing data since 06-07. These are the only stores we look at for year-over-year comparisons. Any stores that have been added since 2007 are excluded from year-over-year calculations. This means that the addition of new stores in the past two years is not a factor in any reported change in market performance.
BNC SalesData tracks approximately 75% of the Canadian book market with data from over 1,500 retail sources, including chains, independents, online, college/university stores, and non-traditional bookstores, such as specialty and discount stores.
For more market analysis and information on BookNet Canada and BNC SalesData, please visit BookNet Canada’s website at www.booknetcanada.ca.
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