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The Canadian Book Market A comprehensive overview of sales performance within the Canadian book industry for 2014.
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B N C R E S E A RC H
The Canadian Book Market
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A comprehensive overview of sales performance within the Canadian book industry for 2014.
NON-SUBSCRIBER EDITION
Table of Contents 1
Preface
70
Humour
2
What You’ll See on Every Page
72
Language Arts & Disciplines
8
Total Market
74
Law
Canadian-Owned Publishers
76
Literary Collections
78
Literary Criticism
80
Mathematics
10
112 Fiction 14
Comics & Graphic Novels
82
Medical
16
Fantasy
84
Music
18
Historical
86
Nature
20
Mystery & Detective
88
Performing Arts
22
Romance
90
Pets
24
Science Fiction
92
Philosophy
26
Suspense & Thrillers
94
Photography
96
Poetry
98
Political Science
3228 Non-Fiction
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication BNC research : the Canadian book market 2014 / BookNet Canada. -- Non-Subscriber ed. ISBN 978-1-927655-14-6 1. Publishers and publishing--Canada. 2. Book industries and trade--Canada. I. BookNet Canada II. Title: Canadian book market 2014. ISBN 978-1-927655-14-6 Š 2015 BookNet Canada All rights reserved. No part of this report may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the express permission of BookNet Canada. Cover Design and Layout: MRd: Michael Ralph design inc. mrdesign.ca BookNet Canada 215 Spadina Ave Suite 310 Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7 www.booknetcanada.ca salesdata@booknetcanada.ca
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Antiques & Collectibles
100
Psychology
32
Architecture
102
Reference
34
Art
104
Religion
36
Bibles
106
Science
38
Biography & Autobiography
108
Self-Help
40
Body, Mind & Spirit
110
Social Science
42
Business & Economics
112
Sports & Recreation
44
Computers
114
Study Aids
46
Cooking
116
Technology & Engineering
48
Crafts & Hobbies
118
Transportation
50
Design
120
Travel
52
Drama
122
True Crime
54
Education
56
Family & Relationships
58
Foreign Language Study
126
Juvenile Fiction
60
Games
128
Juvenile Non-Fiction
62
Gardening
64
Health & Fitness
130
Glossary
66
History
134
About BookNet Canada
68
House & Home
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Preface Welcome to the 2014 edition of The Canadian Book Market. Here are some notes on the data you’ll find in this report. Methodology
2014, our national retail panel included over 2,000 store locations comprised of chains, s Inindependents, newsstands, general retailers, online retailers, and library wholesalers. report contains print book sales only. Ebook sales are not included. s This The focus is on English-language trade book sales; other markets, such as education, s are not represented. track only a small portion of the sales from online retailers in Canada; it is likely that s We some of the perceived market decline may be a result of a shift from traditional retailers to online sales.
Time period
first week of 2014 in The Canadian Book Market is the week ending January 5, 2014. s The The last week of 2014 is the week ending December 28, 2014.
Contents include:
data from 2013 and 2014 for over 50 subject categories, including the top s Comparative sellers in 2014 for each category. graphs by publisher and distributor, price-point analysis, and performance by s Market-share publication date.
Comparable Stores
fixed group of approximately 665 stores that have consistently submitted sales data s Asince 2008 for Comparable Stores do not reflect totals for the whole market but allow for a more s Totals accurate view of year-over-year market and individual-category fluctuations.
Many Thanks: I would be remiss not to extend my thanks to Pamela Millar, Director of Customer Relations, for ushering this edition of The Canadian Book Market out the door. She worked diligently compiling numbers, reviewing graphs, and finally putting it all together in a cohesive manner. Thanks also to Madison Senner, BookNet Research Intern, for spending numerous hours making all the graphs look just right, and to Bill Holt, BookNet DBA, for extracting all the data. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the ongoing support of the Department of Canadian Heritage’s Canada Book Fund, which made this publication possible.
Sincerely, Noah Genner President & CEO, BookNet Canada BNC Research > The Canadian Book Market 2014
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SUBJECT ANALYSIS > NON-FICTION > Gardening
Comparable Stores Total Market 2014
1
4
2
All Stores
Value List
Volume
Value List
Volume
ISBNs Reported
ISBNs with Sales
$693,172,478.06
38,021,942
$934,447,510.76
51,936,877
612,728
475,242
Gardening 2014
$1,514,191.89
57,889
$1,934,074.68
73,769
2,331
1,734
Gardening 2013
$1,547,103.88
65,956
$1,951,076.58
83,032
2,331
1,767
Percent Change
-2.13%
-12.23%
-0.87%
-11.16%
0.00%
-1.87%
Category Share of Total Market
0.22%
0.15%
0.21%
0.14%
0.38%
0.36%
Volume  2013
Volume  2012
Volume  2011
Volume  2010
0.14%
Median  2014
7,000
Units Â
5,000
2014 Value
Units
Median Week
$29,039.08
1,110
Average Week
$37,193.74
1,419
Best Week
$77,367.19
3,033
Slowest Week
$15,259.26
aggregated sum of 2013 sales within specified category.
Percent Change:
difference in sales within specified category between 2014 and 2013 as a percentage.
Category Share of Total Market:
percentage of market share of category as compared to the market as a whole.
Comparable Stores:
aggregated sum within specified category for a fixed group of retailers that reported POS throughout 2013 and 2014.
ISBNs reported:
total number of ISBNs tracked by BNC Sales Data in the category and in the market as a whole.
ISBNs with sales:
total number of ISBNs tracked in the category and in the total market that had one or more sales recorded.
Unit Sales by Week – Comparable Stores:
sometimes referred to as a ring-fence, this is the aggregated sum of individual units sold by week for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 for a fixed group of retailers that reported sales throughout entirety of the 2010 – 2014 period.
Category Share of Total Market:
the percentage of market share the category sales represents as compared to the total units sold in the market as a whole.
Weekly Sales Analysis:
median and average sales over the year as well as the best and slowest weeks. Shown in value and units for 2013 and 2014.
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556 2013
1,000
5 12 19 26 2 9 16 23 2 9 16 23 30 6 13 20 27 4 11 18 25 1 8 15 22 29 6 13 20 27 3 10 17 24 31 7 14 21 28 5 12 19 26 2 9 16 23 30 7 14 21 28
0 Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Weeks Â
7
Category 2013:
6
WEEKLY SALES ANALYSIS
2,000
aggregated sum of 2014 sales within specified category.
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of all unit sales.
3,000
Category 2014:
5
6,000
4,000
aggregated sum of all sales tracked in BNC SalesData for items with both an ISBN and a bibliographic record.
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Gardening represents
UNIT SALES BY WEEK – COMPARABLE STORES Volume  2014
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Total Market 2014:
PUBLISHER MARKET SHARE
Median Week
$29,521.81
1,276
Average Week
$37,520.70
1,597
Best Week
$84,656.28
3,617
Slowest Week
$14,634.64
634
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6.27% Â
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15,000
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Top 10 Titles (Hardcover):
ranking is determined by volume of sales. All bibliographic data elements, including contributor, publisher, binding type, and list price is supplied by publisher or distributor to RR Bowker. Includes all Hardcover Trade bindings.
Top 10 Titles (Paperback):
ranking is determined by volume of sales. All bibliographic data elements, including contributor, publisher, binding type, and list price is supplied by publisher or distributor to RR Bowker. Paperback includes mass market, trade paper, paperback text, digest paperback, US-tall rack, and other paper bindings.
Median and Average Pricing:
display of median and average pricing by Mass Market, Trade Paper, and Hardcover trade binding types.
Format Distribution:
breakdown of units sold by binding type within the specified category, with format information provided by publisher feed to RR Bowker.
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SUBJECT ANALYSIS > NON-FICTION > Gardening
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TOP 10 HARDCOVER Title
Contributor
ISBN
Publisher
Bind.
Atlantic Coastal Gardening
Adams, Denise
9781771081443
Nimbus Publishing, Ltd
HT
List Price $29.95
The Drunken Botanist
Stewart, Amy
9781616200466
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
HT
$25.50
Edible Container Gardening for Canada
Sproule, Rob
9781551058900
Lone Pine Publishing
HT
$32.51
Get Started – Growing Vegetables
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
9781465401960
Dorling Kindersley
HT
$17.00
Square Metre Gardening for Canada
Jackson, A. H.
9781551058917
Lone Pine Publishing
HT
$28.89
Canadian Gardener’s Guide
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
9781553631781
Dorling Kindersley
HT
$30.00
Encyclopedia of Gardening Canadian Edition
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
9781553631958
Dorling Kindersley
HT
$55.00
The Gardener’s Garden
Musgrave, Toby
9780714867472
Phaidon Press, Inc
HT
$89.95
Bonsai
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
9781465419583
Dorling Kindersley
HT
$26.00
Highgrove
H R H The Prince of Wales
9780297869351
Orion Publishing Group, Ltd
HT
$50.00
Title
Contributor
ISBN
Publisher
Bind.
Power Plants
Flowers, Frankie
9781443426763
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
TP
$26.99
The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener
Jabbour, Niki
9781603425681
Storey Publishing, LLC
TP
$24.95
Groundbreaking Food Gardens
Jabbour, Niki
9781612120614
Storey Publishing, LLC
TP
$24.95
The Chinook Short Season Yard
Penner, Lyndon
9781550595390
Brush Education
TP
$24.95
The Prairie Short Season Yard
Penner, Lyndon
9781550595437
Brush Education
TP
$24.95
The Revolutionary Way to Grow More in Less Space
Bartholomew, Mel
9781591865483
Cool Springs Press
TP
$27.99
Practical Projects for Self-Sufficiency
Peterson, Chris
9781591865957
Cool Springs Press
TP
$21.99
Vegetable Gardening for Ontario
Peters, Laura
9781551058634
Lone Pine Publishing
TP
$24.95
Growing Food in a Short Season
Watts, Melanie J.
9781771620116
Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd
TP
$24.95
Perennials for Ontario
Beck, Alison
9781551052625
Lone Pine Publishing
TP
$21.95
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Hardcover: Hardcover trade All Paper: Mass market, trade paper, paperback text, digest paperback, US-tall rack Other: Audio, bath book, blank book, book other format, board book, calendar, ebook, map, non-book merchandise, print other, rag book, software, video
TOP 10 PAPERBACK
MEDIAN AND AVERAGE PRICING
List Price
Average List Price All Paper
2014
2013
0.00%
2014
2013
20.03%
$22.00
$25.06
$24.78
8.91%
$10.99
$13.52
$13.26
$19.95
$22.01
$21.79
$30.00
$32.61
$31.93
2013
2014
2013
80.77%
71.06%
$24.95
$26.90
$25.48
Mass Market
0.00%
0.00%
Mass Market
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Trade Paper
80.77%
71.06%
Trade Paper
$24.95
$24.95
$25.39
$24.76
Other Paper
0.00%
Hardcover Trade
$30.00
$30.00
$35.79
$33.99
All Hardcover
17.27% 1.96%
Other
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display of volume of books sold arranged by price point, where price is defined as list price as per publisher information supplied to RR Bowker. A dollar category includes all prices between 0 and 0.99 (e.g. $7.00 includes all books sold between $7.00 and $7.99).
Note: Price Distribution appears on top-level Median List Price category pages only. 2013
2014 $24.99
Total
Price Distribution:
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FORMAT DISTRIBUTION Median List Price
5
5
PRICE DISTRIBUTION Average List Price
2014
2013
60.64%
71.45%
2.79%
6.94%
57.84%
64.51%
0.01%
0.00%
33.85%
27.68%
5.51%
0.87%
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Subject Categories Total Market and Canadian Publishers Fiction Non-Fiction Juvenile
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SUBJECT ANALYSIS > NON-FICTION > Gardening
SUBJECT ANALYSIS > NON-FICTION > Gardening TOP 10 HARDCOVER
Comparable Stores Total Market 2014
All Stores
Value List
Volume
Value List
Volume
ISBNs Reported
ISBNs with Sales
$693,172,478.06
38,021,942
$934,447,510.76
51,936,877
612,728
475,242
Title
Contributor
ISBN
Publisher
Bind.
Atlantic Coastal Gardening
Adams, Denise
9781771081443
Nimbus Publishing, Ltd
HT
List Price $29.95
The Drunken Botanist
Stewart, Amy
9781616200466
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
HT
$25.50
Sproule, Rob
9781551058900
Lone Pine Publishing
HT
$32.51
Gardening 2014
$1,514,191.89
57,889
$1,934,074.68
73,769
2,331
1,734
Edible Container Gardening for Canada
Gardening 2013
$1,547,103.88
65,956
$1,951,076.58
83,032
2,331
1,767
Percent Change
-2.13%
-12.23%
-0.87%
-11.16%
0.00%
-1.87%
Get Started – Growing Vegetables
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
9781465401960
Dorling Kindersley
HT
$17.00
Category Share of Total Market
0.22%
0.15%
0.21%
0.14%
0.38%
0.36%
Square Metre Gardening for Canada
Jackson, A. H.
9781551058917
Lone Pine Publishing
HT
$28.89
Canadian Gardener’s Guide
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
9781553631781
Dorling Kindersley
HT
$30.00
Encyclopedia of Gardening Canadian Edition
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
9781553631958
Dorling Kindersley
HT
$55.00
The Gardener’s Garden
Musgrave, Toby
9780714867472
Phaidon Press, Inc
HT
$89.95
Bonsai
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
9781465419583
Dorling Kindersley
HT
$26.00
Highgrove
H R H The Prince of Wales
9780297869351
Orion Publishing Group, Ltd
HT
$50.00
Gardening represents
UNIT SALES BY WEEK – COMPARABLE STORES Volume  2014
Volume  2013
Volume  2012
Volume  2011
Volume  2010
0.14%
Median  2014
7,000
of all unit sales.
6,000
WEEKLY SALES ANALYSIS
Units Â
5,000
2014 Value
Units
Title
Contributor
ISBN
Publisher
Bind.
Median Week
$29,039.08
1,110
Power Plants
Flowers, Frankie
9781443426763
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
TP
$26.99
Average Week
$37,193.74
1,419
The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener
Jabbour, Niki
9781603425681
Storey Publishing, LLC
TP
$24.95
Jabbour, Niki
9781612120614
Storey Publishing, LLC
TP
$24.95
4,000
3,000
2,000
5 12 19 26 2 9 16 23 2 9 16 23 30 6 13 20 27 4 11 18 25 1 8 15 22 29 6 13 20 27 3 10 17 24 31 7 14 21 28 5 12 19 26 2 9 16 23 30 7 14 21 28 Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Weeks Â
PUBLISHER MARKET SHARE
Best Week
$77,367.19
3,033
Slowest Week
$15,259.26
556
The Chinook Short Season Yard
Penner, Lyndon
9781550595390
Brush Education
TP
$24.95
2013
The Prairie Short Season Yard
Penner, Lyndon
9781550595437
Brush Education
TP
$24.95
The Revolutionary Way to Grow More in Less Space
Bartholomew, Mel
9781591865483
Cool Springs Press
TP
$27.99
Practical Projects for Self-Sufficiency
Peterson, Chris
9781591865957
Cool Springs Press
TP
$21.99
Vegetable Gardening for Ontario
Peters, Laura
9781551058634
Lone Pine Publishing
TP
$24.95
Growing Food in a Short Season
Watts, Melanie J.
9781771620116
Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd
TP
$24.95
Perennials for Ontario
Beck, Alison
9781551052625
Lone Pine Publishing
TP
$21.95
Median Week
$29,521.81
1,276
Average Week
$37,520.70
1,597
Best Week
$84,656.28
3,617
Slowest Week
$14,634.64
634
DISTRIBUTOR MARKET SHARE MEDIAN AND AVERAGE PRICING
FORMAT DISTRIBUTION Median List Price
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Canbook  Distribution  Services
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Random  House  of  Canada
Raincoast  Book  Distribution
Firefly  Books,  Ltd
Publishers  Group  Canada
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16.64% Â
2013
Average List Price 2014
2013
All Paper
2014
2013
80.77%
71.06%
0.00%
0.00%
$24.99
$24.95
$26.90
$25.48
Mass Market
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Trade Paper
80.77%
71.06%
0.00%
0.00%
17.27%
20.03%
1.96%
8.91%
11.11% Â
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10.68% Â
6.87% Â
6.27% Â
4.04% Â
Trade Paper
$24.95
$24.95
$25.39
$24.76
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Hardcover Trade
$30.00
$30.00
$35.79
$33.99
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3.93% Â
Other
1.66% Â
1.58% Â
1.23% Â
1.03% Â
0.94% Â
0.88% Â
10.30% Â
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5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
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Glossary Bibliographic information: All descriptive information on titles (e.g., author, title, publisher, subject). Bibliographic information is supplied by publishers to R.R. Bowker. Where an essential data point was unavailable (e.g., subject), title information could not be included. Binding type: Book format as supplied by publishers to R.R. Bowker. s Hardcover includes Hardcover Trade (HT) s Paperback includes Digest Paperback (DP), Mass Market (MM), Trade Paperback (TP), and US-Tall Rack Paperback (TK) s Other includes Audio (AU), Bath Book (BJ), Blank Book (BB), Board Book (BH), Book Other Format (BK), Calendar (PC), Ebook (EB), Map (MP), Non-Book Merchandise (NM), Print Other (PR), Rag Book (BI), Software (SF), and Video (VD) Canadian-owned: For this analysis, a publisher is considered Canadian-owned if its main operational headquarters are in Canada. Publishers with offices operating in multiple countries are included if their head office is located in Canada. Comparable Stores: A fixed group of retailers that have reported sales consistently between 2014 and 2013. Aggregate sales are provided for this group of retailers in each year and for each category to allow comparison of year-over-year sales unaffected by the addition of new reporting retailers. Contributor: The work’s author, editor, translator, or illustrator. Where more than one contributor exists, only the first contributor is listed. Distributor Market Share: The 14 top distributors of this category in 2014 and 2013, ranked by total volume sold.
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Format Distribution: The binding type distribution of units sold in this category. Format information is supplied by publishers to R.R. Bowker. s All Paper includes Mass Market, Trade Paper, and Other Paper s Other Paper includes Digest Paperback and US-Tall Rack Paperback s All Hardcover includes Hardcover Trade s Other includes Audio, Bath Book, Blank Book, Board Book, Book Other Format, Calendar, Ebook, Map, Non-Book Merchandise, Print Other, Rag Book, Software, and Video ISBNs Reported: The number of ISBNs sold, on hand, or on order in this category, according to data compiled and delivered from the weekly POS system feeds of all retailers contributing to BNC SalesData. ISBNs with Sales: ISBNs with reported sales, according to data compiled and delivered from the weekly POS system feeds of all retailers contributing to BNC SalesData. List Price: List price at the time of the publication of The Canadian Book Market 2014. Pricing information is supplied by publishers to R.R. Bowker. Median and Average Pricing: Calculations are based on list price. Pricing information is supplied by publishers to R.R. Bowker. Price Distribution: The volume of books sold by price point in this category. Pricing information is supplied by publishers to R.R. Bowker. s 0RICES OF AND PRICES CONVERTED FROM CURRENCIES OTHER THAN THE #ANADIAN dollar have been removed from calculations. s 0RICE POINTS INCLUDE ALL BOOKS WITH A PRICE EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN THE price point shown and less than the next price point (i.e., a price point of $7.00 would include all books priced from $7.00 to $7.99). In categories where few titles were sold at the lower price points, the first columns were aggregated (e.g., <$10.00 instead of <$6.00).
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Publisher Market Share: The 14 top publishers in this category in 2014 and 2013, ranked by total volume sold. In cases where a publisher is listed more than once (e.g., HarperCollins Publishers and HarperCollins Canada), the two listings may represent divisions from different countries (in this case, the U.S. and Canada). Retailer panel: Based on publisher feedback, we estimate that BNC SalesData represents 85% of book industry sales. Our panel does not yet include direct institutional sales to schools or college/university textbook sales. Subject: Subject classifications are based on the condensed version of the BISAC subject codes used by BNC SalesData. s Fiction includes all adult fiction titles s Non-Fiction includes all adult non-fiction titles s Juvenile includes all juvenile fiction and non-fiction, including young adult Subject Category: Data is drawn from the most recent bibliographic information available at the time of calculation. Different editions of a book may appear under different subject categories if, for example, publisher data classifies a bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hardcover edition as a Mystery and the mass-market edition as a Thriller. Subject classifications are supplied by publishers to R.R. Bowker.
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Top 10 Titles: Rank is determined by volume of sales, and includes all formats listed under Binding Types above. All bibliographic data elements, including contributor, publisher, binding type, and list price, are supplied by the publisher or distributor to R.R. Bowker. Total Market: The aggregate sum of all sales tracked in BNC SalesData for items with both an ISBN and a bibliographic record. Filtering out records without bibliographic data filters out non-book items such as bookmarks and coffee cups. Unit Sales by Week â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Comparable Stores: The sum of units sold by week by a fixed group of retailers. This allows for a comparison of year-over-year sales, unaffected by the addition of new reporting retailers. Value AASP: The total sum of dollar value (by average actual sale price [AASP]) of units sold according to data compiled and delivered from the weekly POS system feeds of all retailers contributing to BNC SalesData. Value List: The total sum of dollar value (by list price) of units sold according to data compiled and delivered from the weekly POS system feeds of all retailers contributing to BNC SalesData. Volume: The total sum of units sold according to data compiled and delivered from the weekly POS system feeds of all retailers contributing to BNC SalesData.
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The Canadian Book Market
is a comprehensive survey of what happened in the Canadian book trade in 2014. High-level quantitative analysis is included for more than 50 categories, along with comparative data from 2013 for quick and easy year-overyear analysis.
Produced by BookNet Canada, the agency devoted to innovation in the Canadian supply chain, this is your complete guide to understanding Canadian market trends.
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Featuring over 50 top subject categories, The Canadian Book Market is a comprehensive tool for publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, and anyone interested or involved in the Canadian book industry.
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