'The most economical means of acquiring statistical information about the UK book trade.' - The Bookseller
Drawing together data from over 50 different sources, Bookfacts Online is the essential resource for anyone involved with or interested in the UK book industry. Updated in real time, Bookfacts Online gives links to the original data sources and provides longer trends and more detailed information than the original print version. Bookfacts Online is available at an annual subscription of £250+VAT, and covers:
- General statistics and forecasts
- covering the whole market and putting the book trade in context
- population
- the condition of the consumer
- consumer spending on recreation
- books spend in context of the larger recreational spend
- Book publishing
- publishers' sales estimates and relative performance sectors
- new title output
- Bookselling
- where books are sold
- business data for the sector as a whole
- relative performance of the main players
- location, number and specialisation of bookshops
- sales of book tokens
- analysis of book clubs
- Book Prices
- average book prices vs the RPI
- category trends
- consumer attitudes to price
- purchasing of discounted books
- Consumer Buying
- buying patterns overall
- buyer demographics
- who buys books
- where they buy them
- what they buy by category and genre
- and who they buy them for
- Fastsellers, Bestsellers and Prizewinners
- analysis on the top 100 fastselling paperbacks
- hardback and paperback bestsellers of the year
- prizewinners of various literary prizes throughout the year
- historical listing of the Booker
- The Children's Book Market
- depth analysis looking at
- market size
- share estimates
- data on source of purchase
- genres bought
- users and buyers of books
- plus children's reading habits
- depth analysis looking at
- Spoken Word, Multimedia and the Internet
- hardware ownership
- consumer purchasing patterns
- level of publisher and bookseller involvement in multimedia
- impact of the internet on the booktrade
- consumer access to the internet
- and purchases of books and items online
- The Institutional Market
- educational establishments
- libraries
- expenditure on books
- book stock levels
- and issues and loans for public libraries
- Public Library Use
- consumer perceptions of libraries
- borrowing patterns
- demographic variation of borrowers
- book types and authors borrowed
- plus non-borrowing facilities used
- Book Reading
- readership levels
- other leisure activities
- reasons for not reading
- types of books read
- and time spent reading by adults and children
- The International Book Market
- estimates of the total size of the international book market
- segmentation of the markets in the main countries
- comparison of international title output
- UK imports and exports to and from its main international trading partners