Nielsen: volume up, value down; indies gaining share
Shaun Symonds, general manager Nielsen Bookscan, presented recent Nielsen sales data at the Australian Booksellers Association conference on Monday 25 July. Data from the first 24 weeks to June showed sales were...
Booksellers of the Year, Booksellers’ Choice Award winners announced
The winners of the inaugural Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Bookseller of the Year Awards and the Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award were announced at the ABA conference on 24 July....
Booksellers NZ conference: ebooks, Indiebound, PANZ elections, sales stats
The 2011 Booksellers New Zealand conference, held in Wellington on 17 and 18 July, attracted almost 130 attendees, up on 2010 figures. 'Times are tough for retailers and the book...
NZ book industry awards winners announced
The winners of this year's New Zealand book industry awards, sponsored by Thorpe-Bowker, were announced on 17 July at the 2011 Booksellers New Zealand Conference in Wellington. Benny's Bookshop in...
In Brief
The Nile offers free shipping in Oz, NZOnline bookseller The Nile announced this week that it is offering free shipping in Australia on all orders under $50 for a limited time. The...
The stats: Sales of top 10 drop 50%
Bookseller feedback is backed up by data from Nielsen BookScan, which shows a drop in sales over the lead up to Christmas--the first time Nielsen has reported such a drop...
Nielsen BookScan celebrates 10 years in Australia
Nielsen BookScan is celebrating 10 years since it began tracking Australian book sales under the name BookTrack in December 2000. Nielsen BookScan's Shaun Symonds told the Weekly Book Newsletter that...
NZ Booksellers conference: Nielsen figures, Book Month to move to March
The Booksellers NZ annual conference, held in Auckland from 29 to 30 August was covered in some detail in the Booksellers NZ newsletter The Read. ‘The feedback we have received...
Nielsen to launch ebook chart in ‘months rather than years’
Ebooks in Australia must be consistently identified by ISBN before an ebook bestseller chart service can be created, according to Nielsen BookScan Australia spokesperson Shaun Symonds. Following a statement from...
NZ December book sales: value up, volume down in 2009
The first year-on-year analysis of New Zealand book sales in December using Nielsen BookScan data has revealed a drop in volume and a rise in value for 2009, compared to...
Book sales up in 2009
In good news for the book trade, Nielsen BookScan's figures for 2009 indicate book sales in Australia have increased in both value and volume in comparison to 2008. The number...
OUP, QUT Bookshop, winners at ACBA annual conference
The Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) held its annual national conference last week in Brisbane. The conference, which ran from 4 to 6 November at the Royal on the Park...
‘The Lost Symbol’: highest first-week sales after HP reports Nielsen BookScan
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol (Random House) sold 127,378 copies through the outlets monitored by Nielsen BookScan in Australia in the book's first five days on sale. In New Zealand...
Thorpe-Bowker 2009 Industry Awards: winners announced
The winners of this year's Thorpe-Bowker 2009 Industry Awards were announced at a gala dinner at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Auckland on Sunday night, as part of the 2009...
2009 Booksellers New Zealand conference wraps up
The Booksellers New Zealand national conference wrapped up on Monday, having run from Sunday 26 July at Auckland's Crowne Plaza Hotel. The theme of the conference was ‘surviving change'. The...
BookScan’s 2008 top sellers: take four ingredients, and just add teen vampires
The best selling book in Australia in 2008, according to figures from Nielsen BookScan, was 4 Ingredients, selling some 288,000 copies last year (on top of the 131,000 copies it...
BookScan to launch in NZ
Nielsen Book,�which operates the Neilsen BookScan business in Australia, the US, UK, Ireland, South Africa, Spain and Italy, has announced its intention to launch�the retail book sales tracking service in...
Nielsen figures show indies strong; 69% of online buying local
Shaun Symonds of Nielsen BookScan presented a report to the ABA conference, concentrating on the figures for the 19 weeks ending on Mother's Day.BookScan's figures show that the book retail...