But Nielsen BookScan’s numbers add hard data to the rankings. Authors will now be able to see how many sales make a difference in pushing up their rankings.

All book publishers (and some savvy authors) subscribe to Nielsen BookScan. The very first thing an acquiring editor does when considering a new submission, is check a published author’s Nielsen ...

Nielsen BookScan gleans its online sales data from companies such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Books-a-Million. The offline data comes from a myriad of non-traditional bookselling outlets ...

Amazon just added Nielsen Bookscan numbers to their Author Central pages, the pages authors use to add content to the Kindle/Amazon book store and, more important, track their book sales on Amazon.

Nielsen BookScan, which monitors the English-language book industry worldwide, will now represent over 80% of the retail print book marketplace in the U.S.

But in 2001, Nielsen BookScan, a sister company of the TV-ratings firm, began electronically tracking book sales at cash registers (following in the footsteps of SoundScan, which had done same ...

The Wall Street Journal has an agreement with Nielsen BookScan to publish best-seller lists that include both physical books and e-sales. Since 2009, Nielsen has provided the journal with lists ...

Nielsen BookScan gathers point-of-sale book data from more than 16,000 locations across the U.S., representing about 85% of the nation’s book sales. Print-book data providers include all major ...

Nielsen BookScan was launched after a request from a group of publishers in India to make the services available in the country. We started with organised retail stores in India and gradually ...

In 2005 Nielsen BookScan launched in Spain; it was not until 2017 that we were able to incorporate our next Spanish-speaking country, Mexico, in the growing BookScan universe, and in 2023 we were ...

Nielsen BookScan gathers point-of-sale book data from more than 16,000 locations across the U.S., representing about 85% of the nation’s book sales. Print-book data providers include all major ...

But is the knowledge that comes from Nielsen bookscan numbers more likely to harm or help? Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to search Skip to footer. Beyond fear, beyond anger.