NIELSEN BOOKSCAN
NZ - 2018 SNAPSHOT
31 Dec 2017 - 29 Dec 2018
NIELSEN BOOKSCAN
Nielsen BookScan is the international sales data monitoring and analysis service for the English-language book industry
worldwide. The service tracks general retail book sales within New Zealand on a weekly basis from the retailers below.
In addition to New Zealand, data is available for the UK, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Italy, Spain, India, Brazil
and Mexico.
THE NZ RETAILER PANEL
• LS Travel Retail
• Paper Plus Group
• The Warehouse
• Fishpond (Added Q3 2017)
• Kmart (Added Q3 2017)
• The Book Depository (Added Q3 2017)
• Bennetts (Added Q5 2018)
• David Jones
• The Nile
• A weighted sample of independent general bookstores
• Specialist bookstores
NZ MARKET SUMMARY
NB: All values are based on the existing NZ retailer panel, whilst growth figures are based on a like-for-like BookScan
New Zealand panel following the BookScan panel expansion in Q3 2017 and the Academic panel expansion in Q5 2018.