One of the most popular question topics from BNC SalesData users is bibliographic data: where is it sourced; how is it updated; and how can errors in the data be corrected? Since we love nothing more than to rhapsodize over bibliographic data and metadata in the supply chain, we’ll climb up on our soapbox and share all the details with you!
BNC SalesData Tip #5: Date Selection
SalesData Redux
A little over 4 years ago BookNet Canada released the ‘original’ BNC SalesData. Over the last four years the Canadian Book Industry has used SalesData extensively as a data gathering and mining tool. However, during those 4 years our users started using SalesData in ways we couldn’t have foreseen when we designed and released the original service. And to keep up with them we needed to do some serious re-working of the system’s underlying architecture. At the same time (hey…why not?) we decided to add new functionality and streamline much of the application.
The Challenges of E-Book Sales Data
As the keepers of the aggregated book data for the Canadian industry, we are often asked to provide statistics on e-books. These requests come from far and wide but are often made from those wishing to compare Canadian adoption rates of digital technology with rates of other markets.
Unfortunately, our desire at BNC to quantify this data is met with considerable challenges when trying to put the metaphorical rubber to the road. A few for your consideration…
BNC SalesData Tip #4: How to Find Out More
BNC SalesData Tip #3: Creating a Report and the Perils of Design
Changing the design of the bestseller report creator in SalesData was no easy task. The problem: how do you provide users with the ability to do advance searches in an interface that allows lots of criteria? You have to consider the best practices of designing when trying to solve this problem but as so many things in software development there are always exceptions.
BNC SalesData Tip #2: Putting Early Preview Data within Your Purview
BNC SalesData Tip #1: Not Drowning, Waving with Simpler Saved Reports
It’s a brand new day in BNC SalesData land! We hope you are finding the new features and tools useful. If your experience so far has been great, that is fantastic.
If you are scratching your head wondering what we were thinking, well, this blog series may be for you. Over the next several weeks, we will be blogging tips and tricks for using the new and improved BNC SalesData.
