BookScan

BookScan
IndustryBook Publishing
Founded2001
Headquarters
Woking
,
United Kingdom
ServicesPublishing
ParentNielsen Company; The NPD Group
WebsiteNielsen Book homepage; NPD BookScan homepage

BookScan is a data provider for the book publishing industry that compiles point of sale data for book sales, owned by The NPD Group in the United States and the Nielsen Company in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and Poland.[1][2][3][4]

In the United States, Nielsen sold BookScan to NPD in 2017, and the service was renamed NPD BookScan in that territory.[5] Elsewhere in the world, Nielsen BookScan continues to operate as an independent service.

  1. ^ Daniel Gross. "Why writers never reveal how many books their buddies have sold." Slate, June 2, 2006. Retrieved on January 5, 2008.
  2. ^ Jim Milliot and Steven Zeitchik. "Bookscan: Acceptance, And Questions, Grow." Publishers Weekly, January 12, 2004. Retrieved on January 5, 2008.
  3. ^ Adelle Waldman. "Cents and Sensibility; The surprising truth about sales of classic novels." Slate, April 2, 2003. Retrieved on January 5, 2008.
  4. ^ Anna Weinberg. "Nielsen BookScan Releases Potter Sales Figures Archived 2007-10-15 at the Wayback Machine." The Book Standard, July 21, 2005. Retrieved on January 5, 2008.
  5. ^ "NPD Buys Nielsen's Book Services". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2019-07-30.