Nielsen BookScan Christmas figures: Value and volume up; Jamie Oliver tops the bestsellers
Value and volume sales were up in both the 12-week and four-week periods leading to 23 December 2017, compared to the same periods in 2016. The volume of books sold...
Nielsen BookScan figures: value and volume up as nonfiction recovers post colouring books
Sales in the 10 weeks leading up to 9 December 2017 are up four percent in value and 3.7% in volume over the same period in 2016, reports Nielsen BookScan....
Attendance up at SPN conference; children’s books a growth area for small publishers
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) sixth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 16-18 November. With attendance up on last year, SPN general manager Matthia...
Nielsen BookScan to merge trade, academic panels in 2018
Nielsen BookScan Australia has announced it will merge its trade and academic book sales panels in 2018 ‘in order to report on all print book sales via one complete service’....
Nielsen NZ report: reading the second most popular leisure activity
A Nielsen Consumer and Media Insight survey has found about 1.9 million New Zealanders aged over 10 read a book every week, making reading the second most popular leisure activity...
Nielsen survey finds 75% of Australian adults interested in Amazon Australia
A Nielsen survey has found 75% of Australians aged 18 years and older are interested in Amazon Australia, and 56% say they are likely to purchase from an Australian Amazon...
Nielsen BookScan Christmas figures: strong last four weeks but value and volume down
While colouring books boosted Christmas sales in 2015, this season was marked by their absence. According to Nielsen BookScan, in the 12 weeks to 24 December, volume was down 2.7%...
Nielsen BookScan figures: Volume and value down as colouring books dry up
Sales in the 10 weeks to 5 December are down 5.9% in value and seven percent in volume this year compared to the same period in 2015, reports Nielsen BookScan....
Attendance up at SPN conference; small presses remain strong in nonfiction, reports Nielsen
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) fifth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 9-12 November, with an extra half day of programming this year for...
Nielsen BookScan: Value up, volume flat in 2016 YTD; ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ the bestseller
Nielsen Book general manager Shaun Symonds presented an overview of the market in 2016 at the Leading Edge Books and Australian Booksellers Association conferences. Symonds reported that value is up...
Nielsen BookScan Christmas figures: value and volume up
Local booksellers experienced a boost in sales over the Christmas period thanks to the continued success of adult colouring books. According to Nielsen BookScan, sales were up 1.8% in volume...
NZ book sales up in 2015
New Zealand’s book sales are up in volume and value in the first half of 2015, according to new figures released by Nielsen Book. New Zealand’s total market for the...
Delivering the goods: A look at the book industry’s supply chain
Getting a book into a reader’s hands has never been quicker, but there is still plenty of room for improvement in the book industry’s supply chain, writes Gary Copeland.Those who...
Nielsen BookScan Christmas figures: value and volume up
Local booksellers have recorded a boost in sales over the Christmas period. According to Nielsen BookScan, sales were up 1.5% in volume and 0.7% in value over the 13 weeks to 27 December...
Nielsen BookScan figures: value slightly down, volume slightly up
Overall, sales in the 10 weeks to 6 December are down 0.1% in value, although they are up slightly (0.4%) in volume compared to the same period in 2013, according...
Nielsen study finds teens lag adults in ebook uptake
In the US, teen readers aged 13-17 are lagging behind adults when it comes to their uptake of ebooks, according to a study from Nielsen. The study found 20% of teens are purchasing...
Reilly, Ponting top Australian bestsellers charts 2013-14
Matthew Reilly’s The Tournament (Pan) and Ricky Ponting’s memoir Ponting: At the Close of Play (HarperSports) have topped the Australian adult fiction and nonfiction bestsellers chart for July 2013 to...
Fox, Griffiths and Marsden top Australian children’s bestsellers charts 2013-14
For the fourth year in a row, books by Mem Fox, Andy Griffiths and John Marsden have topped the Australian picture book, children’s fiction and YA bestsellers charts, according to...
Nielsen BookScan figures: volume up, value down
This Christmas period has seen some growth in volume but a small drop in value. According to Nielsen BookScan, sales were up 0.7% in volume and down 1% in value...
Nikolic to join Nielsen NZ
Nevena Nikolic has been appointed as national manager for Nielsen Book Services in New Zealand. Nikolic, who begins in the role on 28 January, replaces former national manager David Dromer,...