Who are we?
NielsenIQ BookData offers a comprehensive range of services to the international book industry, supporting the discovery, purchase, distribution, and sales measurement of books. We proudly manage the ISBN and SAN Agencies for the UK & Ireland, providing publishers with a suite of services, from assigning ISBNs to adding metadata to our database, along with promotional tools to help market your book effectively.
For booksellers and libraries, we offer access to our database of over 51 million book records for title look-up, enriching websites, and managing internal systems. Our research services deliver retail sales analysis for both print and e-books across 17 territories, complemented by insights from our Books and Consumers Survey, as well as Country and Genre-specific reports.
Special offers for Society of Authors members
We are delighted to offer Society of Author members several discounts:
BookData Enhanced Service
Enrich your titles: Society of Authors Members enjoy 15% off the list price (discount for first year only)
Books using these elements sold an average of 2,932 copies – more than X3 higher!
Enrich your metadata by speaking to the team: Sales.Book@nielseniq.com
With a Basic Listing, your book’s essential details—title, author, cover image, and price are stored in the BookData database and shared with booksellers, libraries, and retailers worldwide.
By moving to the Enhanced Service, it allows you to add further key descriptive text to your titles, including:
- Long and Short Descriptions – Entice potential readers
- Keywords – Improve searchability across online retailers
- Reviews – Show people chosen reviews to help promote your books
- Promotions Text – A further way to advertise and market your book
- Table of Contents – Give buyers a sneak peak
- Author Biography – Build credibility and reader engagement
The data is then fed out via our Metadata services to around 3,500 booksellers, internet retailers and library customers throughout the UK and the book trade in over 87 countries including Australia, Germany, Netherlands, France and Sweden.
BookData Book2Look – The Interactive Marketing Tool for Books
Interested in marketing your book? Society of Authors Members enjoy 5% off the list price.
Speak to the team Sales.Book@nielseniq.com
Improve book discoverability, aid book-buying decisions and enhance consumer experience across retailer websites, social media channels, your own websites, and the entire digital landscape.
In a world where much of our shopping is done online, Book2Look, the most advanced interactive all-in-one marketing tool for books allows you to create interactive ‘look inside’ content for your titles. Book2Look is the chosen solution for many retailers including Waterstones and Bookshop.org
See it in action: No Ballet Shoes in Syria: Catherine Bruton – Book2look
Create digital biblets featuring sample pages, and other marketing material including audio and video clips. Biblets maximise the marketing potential for books and enhance the book-browsing experience for buyers worldwide.
BookScan
See sales of yours or any other title around the globe. Monitor the effect of a marketing campaign and understand the performance of similar selling books. Society of Authors Members enjoy 15% off the list price.
Speak to the team infobookresearch@nielseniq.com
NielsenIQ BookScan is the world’s first continuous retail sales monitoring service for print books, based on electronic point of sale data collected directly from tills and despatch systems.
NielsenIQ BookScan monitors sales from high street and internet book shops, supermarkets, museums, specialist shops and independent bookshops in 17 territories: United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Belgium, Portugal, Australia, Poland, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, Netherlands and Colombia.
Example Reports include:
- Sales on any ISBN/s (trended or non-trended)
- Author sales report (by ISBN)
- International sales
- UK regional sales
For more information on any of our services visit the website.