Booksellers
Introduction
Nielsen BookData offers a unique range of services for booksellers, from online title look-up to website enrichment and sales analysis.
- Trusted bibliographic metadata for selecting new titles and answering customer queries
- Retail sales data to use alongside the experience and local knowledge of staff
Our services have been developed to help you meet the needs of your customers while saving you time and money. A number of our services are free to bookshops, and we are proud supporters of Independent Bookshop Week in the UK.
Online title look-up
Our BookData Online service is our online search and discovery tool providing a title look-up tool for over 50m English-language titles. You can view the bibliographic data for each book as well as making use of a range of features including:
- Detailed searching
- New title alerts
- Ability to create and share book lists
- ‘Look Inside’ media links
Why choose BookData Online?
- Reliable information to help you run your business efficiently
- All the information you need to answer customer enquiries
- Although you may have limited space for physical stock, BookData Online gives you access to the whole database allowing you to compete on a level playing field
- Search using a wide range of classifications and subject headings, including Thema
- Provide advice to your customers on the bestselling books in their chosen genre by sorting by BookScan chart position
- Access the service anytime and anywhere
See the benefits first-hand, register for a free trial:
BookData Online can also be enabled through various shop systems including: Booksolve, BatchLine and Merlio.
BA Members can enjoy 20% discount off the list subscription price, for more information email: sales.book@nielseniq.com
Metadata feed
We can supply our metadata as a tailored data feed allowing you to pick and mix the data coverage and elements you require as well as how you would like it delivered.
For example, you can choose whether to receive our whole data file (UK or Global) or make a selection based on subject area (Thema or BIC code) or from specific wholesalers or publishers.
We will discuss your requirements with you in detail before creating your bespoke data package.
Why choose our Record Supply Service?
- Save time and money by using one single data feed rather than trying to manage many sources of information
- Complete flexibility in terms of what data you choose, how it is delivered and at what frequency to suit your business needs
- Make your selection from the complete Nielsen BookData database of over 50m titles
- Data is updated daily ensuring you and your customers can base your decisions on the latest and most accurate title information available
- Enrich your website with elements including descriptions, author biographies, classifications, table of contents, keywords, reviews and ‘Look Inside’ media links to help drive traffic to your site and secure those all-important sales
- Detailed set up process with the complete guidance of our expert team from the selection of your data feed through to the delivery
For more information email: sales.book@nielseniq.com
Book2Look
Our customised ‘Look Inside’ solution allows you to showcase the content of a book and personalise it with your shop logo, social media and shop links.
The Book2Look biblets can be shared with your customers and online communities, helping to promote and sell more books. Multiple biblets can be grouped together to create a virtual bookshelf which can be shared in the same way.
Book2Look is the chosen ‘look inside’ for BookShop.org and Waterstones and supports the World Book Day and World Book Night campaigns.
The service is FREE to booksellers and is simple to set up, for more information click below or email: sales.book@nielseniq.com
BookScan for bookshops
In return for providing Nielsen BookData with your sales data we will give you access to our BookScan service for retailers.
This will enable you to analyse the sales data we gather to spot potential bestsellers, measure your performance against the market, monitor discounting trends, verify top selling titles by category and much more.
The service is FREE to participating booksellers, for more information email: sara.mulryan@nielseniq.com
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