Canada Reads is one of my favourite awards of the year. This week we saw the announcement of the Top 10 books, from which 5 will go on to the debate in February. We thought this was the ideal time to release another research report, this one on the impact of Canada Reads.
New CataList Feature: Creating Specialized Catalogues
It’s here! Our first major feature release for BNC CataList.
What’s included in the new release? You can check out all the details on our What’s New in BNC CataList? page, but the big change is a new Specialized Catalogue feature.
How to Use the Numbers: Lessons from Tech Forum West
When I moderated a panel at our Tech Forum West in Vancouver last week called “Using The Numbers to Optimize Your Sales Strategy,” I got to sit down with three data nerds who work in the industry and discuss what publishing houses—sales departments, in particular—do with those precious sales numbers.
The Giller Shortlist: What Can Publishers Expect?
Each year since 2005 BookNet Canada has been actively tracking and comparing the performance of the Giller nominees and winners. On the day that the shortlist announces we send a Giller Report to all nominated publishing firms who are subscribers to BNC SalesData. This report is created in order to give publishers a sense of what to expect during the award season, and to help nominees with stock and demand planning. What did we find? In a nutshell: the Giller effect is alive and well.
Goodreads Gives Good Recommendations
Many of us are avid readers. We’ve all gotten tips from friends on what the next most amazing, imaginative, exciting, fresh, brain-imploding new book is and we add it to our to-read list. Well, friends… that list is going to get a lot longer and a lot better with the book recommendation algorithm from Goodreads.
E-Book Tracking in the Canadian Market: What’s in the Works
Some of you may have seen the recent Quill and Quire article discussing the fact that BookNet Canada is undertaking an initiative to collect statistics on the sale of e-books in Canada. Right now BookNet actually has two e-book initiatives underway: e-book sales research and e-book SalesData reporting. Here are the details.
PubFight: Hopes and Dreams
PubFight. This is serious business around these parts.
Like the intern before me, I had heard of PubFight from my days in Ryerson and my first days here at BookNet. But to hear about a fight club and to actually join a fight club are two entirely different games.
New BNC Research Study: Juvenile and YA Series
In the past, BNC has turned its eye to researching books made into movies, J.K Rowling vs. Stephenie Meyer, and award-nominated titles, but this summer we decided to look at a trend in Canadian publishing that cannot be ignored: the sometimes-phenomenal, sometimes-underrated, but overall continued success of Juvenile and YA book series.
