OT: Publishing statistics

[Dudley]

Does anyone know how on earth you get hold of book sales figures?  I've got 6 books that I'm desperately trying to get comparable sales figures for, and I can't find any kind of central database.  I'm tearing my hair out here, my supervisor can't help, publishers don't appear to want to help... and in my desperation, I turn to the extremely knowledgeable and good-looking members of this board, who have resolved so many odd queries in the past...

Anyone?

[Banners]

I think The Sunday Times shows the numbers sold in their bestseller list.

M@

[Dudley]

Yeah, they do... unfortunately, that only covers the top 20 or so books selling in any one week.  I know that they're getting their figures from AC Nielson, but unfortunately I have to pay out a lot of cash to get access to that...

[Dan Kelly]

The http://books.guardian.co.uk/bestsellers/alltitles/">Grauniad bestseller list is supplied by Nielsen BookScan.


HTH

Dan

[Dan Kelly]

Or even, this link.

But you've already found them

Dan

Link: http://www.nielsenbookscan.co.uk" target="_blank">nielsen

[longmanshort]

I've asked a mate 'in publishing' and I'll see what comes oop ...