As in past years, Brian Hibbs has gotten access to the actual sales for trade paperbacks and graphic novels in 2011 as recorded by Bookscan, a service of Nielsen. I encourage readers to take a look at Hibbs’s article and see how the figures break down. Bookscan draws upon cash-register data from many member bookstores … Read more
BookScan, the A.C. Nielsen service that tracks book sales using point-of-purchase information in thousands of bookstores — plus online sales from Amazon — has now made its sales data available through Amazon. If you’re the book’s author, that is. As the Los Angeles Times also reports, Amazon has added a Sales Data tab to the … Read more
Things are beyond busy here at The Comichron datafarm — but it’s worth noting that Brian Hibbs has produced his annual analysis of graphic novel sales in the mass market according to Bookscan. It’ll take some time for us here to digest the data and take a look at it beside the direct market, but … Read more
by John Jackson Miller Continuing with the topic below of Nielsen’s Bookscan and its sales charts, an interesting post just up about its sister Soundscan top-seller lists — and how they set it up so that backlist items wouldn’t creep back up into the top-seller lists. As this is a case of them publishing sales … Read more