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Canavan hits one million milestone for Orbit

Publication Date: Thu, 11/08/2011 - 15:15

Fantasy author Trudi Canavan has become the latest writer to top the landmark figure of one million print book sales through UK Nielsen BookScan.

Total sales through Nielsen BookScan to the week ending 6th August 2011 are 1,001,030 copies, worth £7,668,463.68.

Editorial director Anne Clarke congratulated Canavan on...

Anne Clarke | Charlotte Williams | Nielsen Bookscan | Orbit | Todays Picks | Trudi Canavan
July retail growth "modest", amid poor book market

Publication Date: Tue, 09/08/2011 - 09:43

July retail sales saw a modest improvement, according to figures from the British Retail consortium, though book sales fell to their lowest level for seven years with food continuing to outperform non-food items.

UK retail sales values were 0.6% higher on a like-for-like basis from July 2010, when sales had risen 0.5%. On a total...

British Retail Consortium | digital | ebooks | Home | Nielsen Bookscan | Philip Jones | Retail
Digital and high r.r.p.s hitting hardback sales

Publication Date: Fri, 05/08/2011 - 16:00

Publishers and independent booksellers are stressing the importance of "working harder" on hardback fiction titles, as sales of the format fell by £3.2m over the first half of 2011.

Leading publishing figures and independent booksellers said increasing e-book sales were a contributing factor in the sales drop, but...

Charlotte Williams and Philip Stone | hardback fiction | Home | Independent Booksellers | Nielsen Bookscan | r.r.p.
Dragons and Reichs storm the charts

Publication Date: Tue, 19/07/2011 - 15:56

George R R Martin’s A Dance with Dragons sold 28,840 copies in just five days last week, becoming one of the fastest-selling fantasy novels since records began.

The 1,040-page, 1.5kg epic took £372,650 through UK bookshop tills last week at an average selling price of £12.92—48% off its £25 r.r.p...

a song of ice and fire | Charts | george rr martin | Home | Kathy Reichs | Nielsen Bookscan | Philip Stone | Retail
Print book sales decline in first half of 2011

Publication Date: Fri, 08/07/2011 - 09:55

Print sales across the book market have dropped by 3% in the first six months of 2011, compared to the same period last year, with Jamie Oliver the bestselling author over the period, ahead of Julia Donaldson and James Patterson. Macmillan, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Bloomsbury and Usborne all saw sales growth in the half-year even as the...

Bloomsbury | Charlotte Williams | Charlotte Williams and Philip Stone | Charts | Home | Macmillan | Nielsen Bookscan | Penguin | publishers | Simon & Schuster | Usborne
McKenna and Dukan lead New You pack

Publication Date: Mon, 17/01/2011 - 07:25

Books by Paul McKenna and Dr Pierre Dukan are among the bestsellers in 2011 New Year, New You promotions, while resolution-makers have also been spending tens of thousands of pounds on Rosemary Conley and Richard Templar titles.

Having changed lives in seven days, as well as making people rich, thin, sleep, quit smoking and get...

Bantam | Hodder | New Year | Nielsen Bookscan | Paul McKenna | Philip Stone | Pierre Dukan | Retail | waterstone's
Decline in US print book sales offset by rise in e

Publication Date: Sun, 09/01/2011 - 08:10

Sales of print books tracked by Nielsen BookScan in the US fell by 4.4% in the year to 26th December 2010, a shortfall which US site Publishers Marketplace reckons will have been made up by growth in e-book sales, which are not yet tracked by this Nielsen measure.

Unlike the UK, Nielsen does not show the value of those sales,...

Bestseller News | International | Nielsen Bookscan | Philip Jones | US
Amazon offers US authors free regional sales data

Publication Date: Fri, 10/12/2010 - 09:15

Amazon.com has offered its US authors the ability to track their weekly print sales by state through Nielsen BookScan data.

Authors who are members of its free Author Central service can view the data, which is also categorised by format. Nielsen BookScan estimates it tracks 75% of books sold in the United States.

Author Central...

amazon | Graeme Neill | Nielsen Bookscan
Publishers pin hopes on Christmas

Publication Date: Mon, 08/11/2010 - 09:13

Penguin is the only publisher out of the Big Four to have grown its market share over the first three quarters of 2010, according to Nielsen BookScan UK sales figures for the 36 weeks to 4th September.

Despite a fall of -4% in the total value of book sales, when comparing the period year-on- year, publishers felt Christmas would be...

Charlotte Williams and Philip Stone | Christmas | Hachette | HarperCollins | Home | Nielsen Bookscan | Penguin | random house | Tim Hely Hutchinson | Tom Weldon
US book market hit by 'disappointing' August

Publication Date: Mon, 18/10/2010 - 09:23

The US book market continues to outperform the UK, according to new preliminary estimates from the US Census Bureau.

Publishers Weekly reports sales fell at their largest rate in the United States in August, down 6.5% to $2.29bn. PW described the figures as "disappointing", given how August is when students spend heavily in...

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