BNC RESEARCH
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20 18 A comprehensive overview of sales performance within the Canadian book industry for 2018.
TA BLE OF C O N T E N T S
1 Preface
2
Getting to Know Book Buyers
82 Humour
6
French Canadian Market
8
What You’ll See on Every Page
86 Law
14
Total Market
88
Literary Collections
16
Canadian-Owned Publishers
90
Literary Criticism
18
FICTION
80 84
House & Home Language Arts & Disciplines
92 Mathematics 94 Medical
20 Fantasy
96 Music
22 General
98 Nature
24 Historical
26 Literary
102 Pets
104 Philosophy
28
Mystery & Detective
100
Performing Arts
30 Romance
106 Photography
108 Poetry
32
Science Fiction
34 Thrillers
36 Women
112 Psychology
38
NON-F IC T ION
40
Antiques & Collectibles
110
Political Science
114 Reference 116 Religion 118 Science
42 Architecture
120 Self-Help
44 Art
122
Social Science
46 Bibles
124
Sports & Recreation
48
Biography & Autobiography
126
Study Aids
50
Body, Mind & Spirit
128
Technology & Engineering
52
Business & Economics
130 Transportation
54
Comics & Graphic Novels
132 Travel
56 Computers
134
True Crime
136
YO U N G A DU LT ( YA )
62 Design
138
Young Adult Fiction
64 Drama
140
Young Adult Non-Fiction
58 Cooking
60
Crafts & Hobbies
66 Education
68
Family & Relationships
142
J U VE N I L E
70
Foreign Language Study
144
Juvenile Fiction (includes YA)
146
Juvenile Non-Fiction (includes YA)
72 Games 74 Gardening
76
Health & Fitness
78 History
148 Glossary
152
About BookNet Canada
(INCLUDES YA)
PREFACE
Welcome to the 2018 edition of The Canadian Book Market. Here are some notes on the data you’ll find in this report. ME T H O D O L O G Y:
TI M E P ERI OD:
COMPA RA BLE S TORES:
• In 2018, our national retail panel included over 2,200 store locations comprising chains, independents, newsstands, general retailers, online retailers, and library wholesalers.
• The last week covered in The Canadian Book Market 2018 is the week ending Dec. 30, 2018. The last week of 2017 is the week ending Dec. 31, 2017.
• This term refers to a fixed group of approximately 988 stores that have consistently submitted sales data since 2016.
• This report contains print book sales only. Ebook sales are not included. • The focus is on Englishlanguage trade book sales; other markets, such as education, are not represented. • 2017 data has been updated since The Canadian Book Market 2017. Updates to bibliographic data can cause the volume and value of sales to change from previous editions of this publication.
Contents include: • Comparative data from 2017 and 2018 for more than 50 subject categories, including the top sellers in 2018 for each category • Three Fiction categories have been added this year: General, Literary, and Women • Market-share graphs by publisher and distributor, price-point analysis, and performance by publication date
• Totals for Comparable Stores do not reflect totals for the whole market but allow for a more accurate view of the year-over-year market and individual category fluctuations. • The group of retailers included in our Comparable Stores data was updated for 2018 to include more retailers. As a result, this may cause differences when comparing data with previous editions of this publication.
AL SO IN C L U D E D:
• Top-level data from our Canadian Book Consumer survey panel. By including this data, we hope to provide a more complete picture of the Englishlanguage book market in Canada.
MANY TH A N KS :
• New this year is sales data from the French Canadian market, as provided by the Société de gestion de la Banque de titres de langue française (BTLF), which includes total value, total volume, average list price, and top-selling French-language titles.
I would be remiss not to extend my thanks to the BookNet team for numerous hours spent extracting data, compiling numbers, reviewing graphs, and finally putting it all together in a cohesive manner. I would also 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
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WH AT YO U ’L L SE E O N E V E RY E V EN- NUM B ER ED PAGE Listed below are definitions for the content you will see on each even-numbered page:
SUBJECT ANALYSIS > NON-FICTION > Gardening
Comparable Stores†
4
All Stores
Value List
Volume
Value List
Volume
ISBNs Reported
ISBNs with Sales
$958,525,026.56
47,046,500
$1,127,217,461.02
54,721,674
867,056
679,849
Gardening 2018
$1,507,958.72
52,175
$1,814,915.26
62,154
2,860
2,109
Gardening 2017
$1,478,486.71
47,310
$1,555,090.36
50,926
3,031
2,479
Percent Change
1.99%
10.28%
16.71%
22.05%
-5.64%
-14.93%
Category Share of Total Market
0.16%
0.11%
0.16%
0.11%
0.33%
0.31%
Total Market 2018
1
2
Gardening represents
UNIT SALES BY WEEK – COMPARABLE STORES† Volume 2016
Volume 2018
Volume 2017
0.11%
Median 2018
3,000
5
of all unit sales.
2,750 2,500
6
WEEKLY SALES ANALYSIS
2,250
2018
2,000
Value
Units
$32,253.78
1,067
Units
1,750
Median Week
1,500 1,250 1,000
Average Week
$34,902.22
1,195
Best Week
$101,017.80
3,384
Slowest Week
750
$21,664.71
673 2017
500
10 17 24 31 07 14 21 28 06 13 20 27 03 10 17 24 01 08 15 22 29 05 12 19 26 03 10 17 24 31 07 14 21 28 04 11 18 25 02 09 16 23 30 06 13 20 27 04 11 18 25 01
250 0
3
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec Jan
Median Week
$27,232.25
Average Week
$29,905.58
889 979
Best Week
$83,015.55
2,753
Slowest Week
$16,475.39
535
Weeks
7
PUBLISHER MARKET SHARE
Volume Sold 2018
Volume Sold 2017
Volume Sold 2018
Québec Amérique*
Hachette Book Group
Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Thomas Allen & Son
Quarto Publishing Group USA
Penguin Random House Canada
Volume Sold 2017
Publishers Group Canada
Green Candy Press Lone Pine Publishing
Québec Amérique*
Storey Publishing
University of Toronto Press
Timber Press
Raincoast Book Distribution Lone Pine Publishing
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Quarto Publishing Group UK
HarperCollins Canada
Chronicle Books
Simon & Schuster Canada Firefly Books
New Society Publishers Octopus Publishing Group
Fitzhenry & Whiteside*
Fox Chapel Publishing Co*
Independent Publishers Group*
Firefly Books
Ingram Publisher Services
Other
Other
0
5,000
10,000
* Publishers not present in 2017 Top 14.
8
8
DISTRIBUTOR MARKET SHARE
15,000
20,000
25,000
0 * Distributors not present in 2017 Top 14.
† Excludes
some retailer sales; refers to a subset of consistent retailers used for year-over-year comparison.
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2,500
5,000
7,500
10,000
1 Total Market 2018: aggregated sum of all sales tracked in BNC SalesData for items with both an ISBN and a bibliographic record. Category 2018:
aggregated sum of 2018 sales within specified category.
Category 2017:
aggregated sum of 2017 sales within specified category.
Percent Change: difference in sales within specified category between 2018 and 2017 as a percentage. Category Share of percentage of market share of category as compared to the Total Market: market as a whole. 2 Comparable Stores: aggregated sum within specified category for a fixed group of retailers that reported POS throughout 2016, 2017, and 2018. 3 ISBNs Reported:
t otal number of ISBNs tracked by BNC SalesData 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. 4 Unit Sales by Week – sometimes referred to as a ring-fence, this is the aggregated sum Comparable Stores: of individual units sold by week for 2016, 2017, and 2018 for a fixed group of retailers that reported sales throughout the entirety of the 2016–2018 period. 5 Category Share of the percentage of market share the category sales represent as Total Market: compared to the total units sold in the market as a whole. 6 Weekly Sales Analysis: median and average sales over the year as well as the best and slowest weeks. Shown in value and units for 2017 and 2018. 7 Publisher Market Share: ranking of the top 14 publishers by category according to sum of volume sold for 2017 and 2018. All additional publishers comprise the “other” category. 8 Distributor Market Share:
r anking of the top 14 distributors by category according to sum of volume sold for 2017 and 2018. All additional distributors comprise the “other” category.
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SUBJECT ANALYSIS > NON-FICTION > Gardening
1
2
TOP 10 HARDCOVER Title
Contributor
ISBN
Publisher
Bind.
Le Potager à la Semaine
Grégoire, Mélanie
9782764434833
Québec Amérique
HT
Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden
Benzakein, Erin
9781452145761
Chronicle Books LLC
HT
$41.00
Favourite Perennials for Atlantic Canada
Boland, Todd
9781927099964
Boulder Publications
HT
$34.95
How Not to Kill Your Houseplant
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff; Peerless, Veronica
9781465463302
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc
HT
$18.99
Escape to Reality
Cullen, Mark; Cullen, Ben Sandford
9781771086936
Nimbus Publishing, Ltd
HT
$25.95
Bonsai
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
9781465419583
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc
HT
$32.00
Martha's Flowers: Growing and Arranging My Favorite Blooms
Stewart, Martha
9780307954770
Crown Publishing Group
HT
$60.00
The Drunken Botanist
Stewart, Amy
9781616200466
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
HT
$34.95
How to Window Box
Gordon, Chantal Aida; Benoit, Ryan
9781524760243
Crown Publishing Group
HT
$19.99
Stuff Every Gardener Should Know
Meyer, Scott
9781594749568
Quirk Books
HT
$10.95
Title
Contributor
ISBN
Publisher
Bind.
The Cannabis Grow Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for Recreational and Medicinal Use
Green, Greg
9781937866365
Green Candy Press
TP
$59.95
Canadian Gardener's Guide
Johnson, Lorraine; Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
9781553632375
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc
TP
$28.95
The Mini Bonsai Kit
King, Robert W.; Running Press Staff
9780762409747
Running Press Book Publishers
TP
$9.50
Veggie Garden Remix
Jabbour, Niki
9781612126708
Storey Publishing, LLC
TP
$29.95
Food to Grow Low Price Edition
Flowers, Frankie
9781443456364
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
TP
$19.99
List Price
All New Square Foot Gardening
Bartholomew, Mel
9781591865483
Quarto Publishing Group USA
TP
$27.99
Marijuana Grower's Handbook
Rosenthal, Ed
9780932551467
Quick American
TP
$44.95
The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener
Jabbour, Niki
9781603425681
Storey Publishing, LLC
TP
$29.95
9781443433990
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
TP
$29.99
9780865718418
New Society Publishers, Ltd
TP
$29.99
Flowers, Frankie
Backyard Bounty - 2nd Edition
Gilkeson, Linda
MEDIAN AND AVERAGE PRICING
4
FORMAT DISTRIBUTION Median List Price
Average List Price All Paper
2018
2017
62.65%
70.49%
2018
2017
2018
2017
$28.95
$27.95
$31.21
$31.00
Mass Market
N/A
$13.95
N/A
$13.95
Trade Paper
Trade Paper
$25.99
$25.95
$27.39
$26.93
Other Paper
N/A
N/A
Hardcover Trade
$36.95
$37.95
$40.58
$41.68
All Hardcover
34.90%
27.20%
2.46%
2.31%
Total Mass Market
Other
N/A
N/A
62.65%
70.49%
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$29.95
TOP 10 PAPERBACK
Food to Grow
3
List Price
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1 Top 10 Hardcover ranking is determined by volume of sales. All bibliographic data elements, including contributor, publisher, binding type, and list price, are supplied by publisher or distributor to RR Bowker. Includes all Hardcover Trade bindings. 2 Top 10 Paperback ranking is determined by volume of sales. All bibliographic data elements, including contributor, publisher, binding type, and list price, are 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. 3 Median and Average Pricing:
display of median and average pricing by Mass Market, Trade Paper, and Hardcover trade binding types.
4 Format Distribution: breakdown of units sold by binding type within the specified category, with format information provided by publisher feed to RR Bowker. Hardcover: Hardcover trade All Paper: Mass market, trade paper, paperback text, digest paperback, US-tall rack Other: Audio, bath book, blank book, board book, calendar, ebook, map, rag book, analog game, card, kit, mixed media product, novelty book, picture book, POS materials, sheet music, toy, other book format, other media, other merchandise, other printed materials.
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SUBJECT ANALYSIS > NON-FICTION > Gardening
Comparable Stores† Total Market 2018
All Stores
Value List
Volume
Value List
Volume
ISBNs Reported
ISBNs with Sales
$958,525,026.56
47,046,500
$1,127,217,461.02
54,721,674
867,056
679,849
Gardening 2018
$1,507,958.72
52,175
$1,814,915.26
62,154
2,860
2,109
Gardening 2017
$1,478,486.71
47,310
$1,555,090.36
50,926
3,031
2,479
Percent Change
1.99%
10.28%
16.71%
22.05%
-5.64%
-14.93%
Category Share of Total Market
0.16%
0.11%
0.16%
0.11%
0.33%
0.31%
Gardening represents
UNIT SALES BY WEEK – COMPARABLE STORES† Volume 2016
Volume 2018
Volume 2017
0.11%
Median 2018
3,000
of all unit sales.
2,750 2,500
WEEKLY SALES ANALYSIS
2,250
2018
2,000
Value
Units
Median Week
$32,253.78
1,067
Average Week
$34,902.22
1,195
Best Week
Units
1,750 1,500 1,250 1,000 750
3,384
$21,664.71
673
Median Week
$27,232.25
Average Week
$29,905.58
979
Best Week
$83,015.55
2,753
Slowest Week
$16,475.39
535
2017
500
10 17 24 31 07 14 21 28 06 13 20 27 03 10 17 24 01 08 15 22 29 05 12 19 26 03 10 17 24 31 07 14 21 28 04 11 18 25 02 09 16 23 30 06 13 20 27 04 11 18 25 01
250 0
$101,017.80
Slowest Week
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec Jan
889
Weeks
PUBLISHER MARKET SHARE
DISTRIBUTOR MARKET SHARE
Volume Sold 2018
Volume Sold 2017
Volume Sold 2018
Volume Sold 2017
Hachette Book Group
Québec Amérique* Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Thomas Allen & Son
Quarto Publishing Group USA
Penguin Random House Canada
Green Candy Press
Publishers Group Canada
Lone Pine Publishing
Québec Amérique*
Storey Publishing
University of Toronto Press
Timber Press
Raincoast Book Distribution
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Lone Pine Publishing
Quarto Publishing Group UK
HarperCollins Canada
Chronicle Books
Simon & Schuster Canada
New Society Publishers
Firefly Books
Octopus Publishing Group
Fitzhenry & Whiteside*
Fox Chapel Publishing Co*
Independent Publishers Group*
Firefly Books
Ingram Publisher Services
Other
Other
0
5,000
10,000
* Publishers not present in 2017 Top 14.
15,000
20,000
25,000
0 * Distributors not present in 2017 Top 14.
† Excludes
some retailer sales; refers to a subset of consistent retailers used for year-over-year comparison.
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2,500
5,000
7,500
10,000
SUBJECT ANALYSIS > NON-FICTION > Gardening TOP 10 HARDCOVER Title
Contributor
ISBN
Publisher
Bind.
Le Potager à la Semaine
Grégoire, Mélanie
9782764434833
Québec Amérique
HT
List Price
Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden
Benzakein, Erin
9781452145761
Chronicle Books LLC
HT
$41.00
Favourite Perennials for Atlantic Canada
Boland, Todd
9781927099964
Boulder Publications
HT
$34.95
How Not to Kill Your Houseplant
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff; Peerless, Veronica
9781465463302
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc
HT
$18.99
Escape to Reality
Cullen, Mark; Cullen, Ben Sandford
9781771086936
Nimbus Publishing, Ltd
HT
$25.95
Bonsai
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
9781465419583
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc
HT
$32.00
Martha's Flowers: Growing and Arranging My Favorite Blooms
Stewart, Martha
9780307954770
Crown Publishing Group
HT
$60.00
The Drunken Botanist
Stewart, Amy
9781616200466
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
HT
$34.95
How to Window Box
Gordon, Chantal Aida; Benoit, Ryan
9781524760243
Crown Publishing Group
HT
$19.99
Stuff Every Gardener Should Know
Meyer, Scott
9781594749568
Quirk Books
HT
$10.95
Title
Contributor
ISBN
Publisher
Bind.
The Cannabis Grow Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for Recreational and Medicinal Use
Green, Greg
9781937866365
Green Candy Press
TP
$59.95
Canadian Gardener's Guide
Johnson, Lorraine; Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
9781553632375
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc
TP
$28.95
The Mini Bonsai Kit
King, Robert W.; Running Press Staff
9780762409747
Running Press Book Publishers
TP
$9.50
Veggie Garden Remix
Jabbour, Niki
9781612126708
Storey Publishing, LLC
TP
$29.95
TP
$19.99
$29.95
TOP 10 PAPERBACK List Price
Food to Grow Low Price Edition
Flowers, Frankie
9781443456364
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
All New Square Foot Gardening
Bartholomew, Mel
9781591865483
Quarto Publishing Group USA
TP
$27.99
Marijuana Grower's Handbook
Rosenthal, Ed
9780932551467
Quick American
TP
$44.95
The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener
Jabbour, Niki
9781603425681
Storey Publishing, LLC
TP
$29.95
TP
$29.99
TP
$29.99
Food to Grow
Flowers, Frankie
9781443433990
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Backyard Bounty - 2nd Edition
Gilkeson, Linda
9780865718418
New Society Publishers, Ltd
MEDIAN AND AVERAGE PRICING
FORMAT DISTRIBUTION Median List Price
2018 Total Mass Market
2017
Average List Price 2018
2017
All Paper
2018
2017
62.65%
70.49%
N/A
N/A
$28.95
$27.95
$31.21
$31.00
Mass Market
N/A
$13.95
N/A
$13.95
Trade Paper
62.65%
70.49%
N/A
N/A
34.90%
27.20%
2.46%
2.31%
Trade Paper
$25.99
$25.95
$27.39
$26.93
Other Paper
Hardcover Trade
$36.95
$37.95
$40.58
$41.68
All Hardcover Other
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G LOSSARY
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. • Hardcover includes Hardcover Trade (HT) • Paperback includes Digest Paperback (DP), Mass Market (MM), Trade Paperback (TP), and US-Tall Rack Paperback (TK) • 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 2016 and 2018. 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 2017 and 2018, 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. • All Paper includes Mass Market, Trade Paper, and Other Paper • Other Paper includes Digest Paperback and US-Tall Rack Paperback • All Hardcover includes Hardcover Trade • Other includes Audio, Bath Book, Blank Book, Board Book, Calendar, Ebook, Map, Rag Book, Analog Game, Card, Kit, Mixed Media Product, Novelty Book, Picture Book, POS Materials, Sheet Music, Toy, Other Book Format, Other Media, Other Merchandise, Other Printed Materials. 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 2018. 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.
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G LOSSARY (c o n t i n u e d )
Publisher Market Share: The 14 top publishers in this category in 2017 and 2018, 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 US 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 BISAC subject codes used by BNC SalesData. • Fiction includes all adult fiction titles • Non-Fiction includes all adult non-fiction titles • Young Adult includes all young adult fiction and non-fiction titles • 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 book’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 – 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 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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A BO U T B O O KN E T C AN A DA
BOOKNET CANADA IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT DEVELOPS TECHNOLOGY, STANDARDS, AND EDUCATION TO SERVE THE CANADIAN BOOK INDUSTRY. FOUNDED IN 2002 TO ADDRESS SYSTEMIC CHALLENGES IN THE INDUSTRY, BOOKNET CANADA SUPPORTS PUBLISHING COMPANIES, BOOKSELLERS, WHOLESALERS, DISTRIBUTORS, SALES AGENTS, AND LIBRARIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. BookNet Canada’s services and research help companies promote and sell books, streamline workflows, and analyze and adapt to a rapidly changing market. BookNet Canada sets technology standards and educates organizations about how to apply them, performs market research, and tracks 85% of all Canadian English-language print trade book sales through BNC SalesData. Industry-led and partially funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage, BookNet Canada has become, as The Globe and Mail puts it, “the book industry’s supply-chain nerve centre.” The Canadian Book Market 2018 is a comprehensive guide to the Canadian print market. BookNet Canada produces this annual report as part of our commitment to provide members of the Canadian book industry supply chain with the information they need to innovate and compete in today’s market.
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