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Whitaker Gold Award
The Bestseller Awards, previously the Nielsen Bestseller Awards and the Whitaker Awards, are given annually for books sold in the United Kingdom on the basis of their total number of sales, both in print and as e-books, as measured by BookScan. In 2024 the awards are hosted by Nielsen BookData and BolognaBookPlus. A book may be given an award if it sells 250,000 (silver), 500,000 (gold) or 1,000,000 copies (platinum). Initially this had to be within a period of five years, but in 2017 this was extended to the period for which BookScan sales records were held: 1998 for print books and 2014 for e-books. The awards were established in 2001 as the Whitaker Awards: Nielsen BookData traces its origins to the foundation of the trade magazine ''The Bookseller'' in 1858 by Joseph Whitaker, the creator of ''Whitaker's Almanack''. They were later known as the Nielsen Book Gold and Platinum Awards, and relaunched in 2017 as the Nielsen Bestseller Awards, with the addition of a silver award a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BookScan
BookScan is a data provider for the book publishing industry that compiles point of sale data for book sales, owned by Circana in the United States and NIQ in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and Poland. Daniel Gross.Why writers never reveal how many books their buddies have sold" ''Slate'', June 2, 2006. Retrieved on January 5, 2008.Jim Milliot and Steven Zeitchik.Bookscan: Acceptance, And Questions, Grow" ''Publishers Weekly'', January 12, 2004. Retrieved on January 5, 2008. Adelle Waldman.Cents and Sensibility; The surprising truth about sales of classic novels" ''Slate'', April 2, 2003. Retrieved on January 5, 2008.Anna Weinberg.Nielsen BookScan Releases Potter Sales Figures." ''The Book Standard'', July 21, 2005. Retrieved on January 5, 2008. In the United States, Nielsen sold BookScan to NPD in 2017, and the service was renamed NPD BookScan (now Circana BookScan) in that territory. Elsewhere in the worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bookseller
''The Bookseller'' is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry. Philip Jones is editor-in-chief of the weekly print edition of the magazine and the website. The magazine is home to the ''Bookseller''/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, a humorous award given annually to the book with the oddest title. The award is organised by ''The Bookseller''s diarist, Horace Bent, and had been administered in recent years by the former deputy editor, Joel Rickett, and former charts editor, Philip Stone. ''We Love This Book'' is its quarterly sister consumer website and email newsletter. The subscription-only magazine is read by around 30,000 persons each week, in more than 90 countries, and contains the latest news from the publishing and bookselling worlds, in-depth analysis, pre-publication book previews and author interviews. It is the first publication to publish official weekly bestseller lists in the UK. It has also created the first UK-based e-book sales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Whitaker (publisher)
Joseph Whitaker (4 May 1820 – 15 May 1895) was a publisher who founded '' Whitaker's Almanack''. Early life Joseph Whitaker was born in London, and apprenticed to a bookseller at the age of fourteen. Career After years of experience at various bookselling firms, he undertook his own business as a publisher, first as J. Whitaker and later as J. Whitaker & Sons. Early publications were theological works. In January 1858 he launched '' The Bookseller'' and in 1869 published the first issue of '' Whitaker's Almanack'', a reference annual, which met with immediate (and lasting) success. In 1874 he launched the ''Reference Catalogue of Current Literature'', whose goal to "anthologiz publishers' catalogues".Kevin A. Morrison, "Whitaker, Joseph (1820–95) English publisher", in: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and H. R. Woudhuysen, eds., The Oxford Companion to the Book', Oxford University Press, 2010 (online edition). Retrieved 8 March 2023. This reference work went though numerous editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitaker's Almanack
''Whitaker's'' is a reference book, published annually in the United Kingdom. It was originally published by J. Whitaker & Sons from 1868 to 1997, next by HM Stationery Office until 2003 and then by A. & C. Black, which became a wholly owned subsidiary of Bloomsbury Publishing in 2011. The publication was acquired by Rebellion Publishing in 2020, with the 153rd edition appearing on 15 April 2021. In mid-2022, Rebellion announced that there would not be a 2022 edition and no further editions have appeared since then. First publication Joseph Whitaker began preparing his Almanack in the autumn of 1868. He postponed publication of the first edition on learning of the resignation of Benjamin Disraeli on 1 December 1868, so that he could include details of the new Gladstone administration. At the same time, Whitaker continued to expand the information so that the initially planned 329 pages grew to 370. The first edition of the Almanack appeared on 23 December 1868, priced at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NielsenIQ
NIQ (also known as NielsenIQ, formerly known as ACNielsen or AC Nielsen) is a global marketing research firm, with worldwide headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The company has approximately 30,000 employees and operates in more than 100 countries. NIQ acquired German market research firm GfK in 2023. Until March 2021, it was a part of Nielsen Holdings. Nielsen Holdings divested its consumer intelligence (by then known as NielsenIQ) business to private equity firm Advent International. The business later rebranded to NIQ. Activities A market research tool is the Homescan program where sample members track and report all grocery and retail purchases, allowing purchasing patterns to be related to household demographics. Homescan covers several countries including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 2004, ACNielsen chose the CipherLab CPT-8001 as its data collection terminal for the Homescan program throughout Asia. The Homescan pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |