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Bookfacts Online...

"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 one-stop resource for anyone involved with or interested in the UK book industry. Updated in real time, Bookfacts Online includes links to the original data sources and provides long term trends. Contact Chini Ugboma for more details.

Some of the latest uploads onto BookFacts ...

Section 3.5: Bookshop Locations: Number of Branches
Section 10.7c: Most Borrowed Adult Fiction Titles
Section 10.7d: Most Borrowed Adult Non-fiction Titles
Section 12.4b: UK book exports: Main countries
Section 12.5a: UK book imports - By Broad Geographical Region
Section 12.5b: UK book imports - main countries

November 2009 uploads...

Section 3.6: Other Goods Stocked By Bookshops
Section 3.7: Main Bookshop Subject Specialisations
Section 8.3a: Purchasing of Spoken Word
Section 8.3b: Purchasing of Spoken Word: By Category
Section 8.3c: Purchasing of Spoken Word: By Format
Section 8.4: Demographic Profile: Spoken Word Buyers
Section 1.1a: UK Population Change
Section 1.1b: UK Population Forecasts
Section 5.3: Consumer Book Buying: Sources Used
Section 5.4: Consumer Book Purchases: Purchase Prompt
Section 7.6: Children's Reading Habits
Section 7.7a: Most Borrowed Children's Authors

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Bookfacts Online is available at an annual subscription of £250+VAT (for book trade), and £350+VAT (for non-trade). It 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 Booke
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 habit
Spoken Word and the Internet
- hardware ownership
- consumer purchasing patterns
- level of publisher and bookseller involvement in spoken word
- 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