Is Nielsen BookScan free?
Free to Authors in Amazon's Author Central Service.
Does Nielsen BookScan include Amazon?
BookScan only tracks print book sales, thus excluding ebook sales from major e-tailers such as Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo, Apple, and Google Play. BookScan likewise does not include non-retail sales through channels such as libraries, nor specialty retailers who do not report to the service.
What is Nielsen BookData?
Nielsen BookData disseminates information for English language titles electronically to over 3,500 booksellers, internet retailers and library customers in the UK and to over 100 countries worldwide, making your titles discoverable to thousands of potential book buyers!
How much does Nielsen BookScan cost?
Writers can subscribe to Nielsen themselves, for a price: $5,000 a year for total 24/7 access to all titles in the system. A better deal for just finding out your own book's sales history is $85 for a single ISBN number.
How reliable is BookScan?
This is something I've heard repeatedly from comics folks—BookScan is generally considered to be about 60%-75% of a book's sales, but for comics it seems to be lower still. For instance, even this verified million seller has to note that its BookScan numbers are low.
What does BookScan cover?
NPD BookScan™ is the gold standard in POS tracking for the publishing market. It covers approximately 85 percent of trade print books sold in the U.S., through direct reporting from all major retailers, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, Target, independent bookstores, and many others.
How do I find my BookScan number?
How Authors Can Get Bookscan Numbers
- Go to one of your books on Amazon.
- Click on your name and go to your author page. ...
- Scroll down to the box labelled “Feedback” and click on the link that says “Visit Author Central”
- Click on the menu bar link for “Sales Info”
Is NPD BookScan free?
A single subscription is $2,500 per year. After the first/primary subscription, each additional user within the same company is charged $500 per year, a substantial discount.
Is BookScan free?
To sign-up for this service, please complete the fields below and we'll forward you payment information shortly thereafter. NPD Publishers Marketplace BookScan is offered as an annual subscription only, on a pre-paid basis. (Once you pay, it will usually take 3 to 5 business days to set up your credentials.)