Services for Publishers and Distributors
The importance of good quality book data
Welcome to the Nielsen BookData Marketing website - please note the search box in the top right hand corner is available to search this marketing website, not any of our data services.
The Nielsen BookData range of services form part of Nielsen Book, our aim is to help publishers by disseminating information about their titles to booksellers and libraries worldwide. Our products have sophisticated search functionality and enriched data, allowing those searching for titles to find what they want quickly and easily. We provide bookseller and library customers with the services to order these books and you to receive these orders efficiently. Nielsen Book also provides market-leading services to analyse your sales providing invaluable market research. We also run the ISBN Agency for the UK and Ireland and the ISTC Agency.
We have produced two simple charts to help you understand the process if you are new to publishing: Chart 1 and Chart 2
Free Listing Service
Enhanced Listing Service
Supplying Data & Images:
Electronic
ONIX
PubWeb - online editing
Jackets/covers
Printed matter:
New title form
Change your distributor details
BIC Basic
BookData Online
BookData MARC Service for Publishers
Listing Services
Free Title Listing:
Nielsen Book offers a free listing service to all publishers of English-language books regardless of location, size or genre. This service allows you to display basic information for each of your titles, which is aggregated and then disseminated through our services to your customers worldwide.
By providing timely, accurate and complete information for your titles you use our service as a shop window for your publications, allowing book buyers the opportunity to make informed buying decisions based on the information available. This information is essential for book buyers and acquisition librarians all over the world who use our services every day.
In order to be eligible for inclusion on our database and our services, your books and related products must:
- have an appropriate, valid and correctly applied standard identifier (e.g. ISBN, EAN)
- be distributed through the book and library trade in the UK, Ireland, key English-language countries or other markets of importance to booksellers and libraries.
For information click here
To see our Standard Terms and Conditions click here
To view our Data Collection Policies click here
To view our E-book listing statement click here
For further information or to download our Digital Product overivew, please click here
For further information or to download information on supplying data on Large Print publications, please click here
For further information or to download our information of how to supply Audio Book information, please click here
Enhanced Titles Listing – fee-based subscription service:
Subscribing to the BookData Enhanced Service ensures that your titles really stand out from the rest. In such a competitive market your titles need an edge and the BookData Enhanced Service provides a rich book record that allows buyers to make informed purchasing decisions.
Wherever possible or applicable your new and forthcoming title record will contain enriched information, including:
- Descriptions
- Tables of Contents
- Jacket/cover image*
- Promotional details
- Author biographies
- Book awards *
- Readership levels*
- Classification*
- Reviews
- Territorial rights*
* available on both the free and subscription services.
The Benefits:
You will have access to the services of a named editor who manages your information, ensuring accuracy, consistency, timeliness and completeness of your records, giving your titles more prominence when viewed by buyers around the world.
Publishers large and small can rely on Nielsen Book to aggregate their book information ensuring accuracy and consistency and be confident that we can supply the information to thousands of your customers worldwide in a wide variety of formats and frequencies, so you can get on with the task of publishing and distributing the best books.
An annual subscription is payable and based on a 'per title' basis for new and backlist publications (including digital product). Our Standard Terms and Conditions for the supply of information by data suppliers and how this is disseminated are available on this website.
For further information about our Enhanced Service click here or email: publisher.services.book@nielsen.com
To view our Enhanced Service promotional flyer click here. To view Angell Eurosales case study. Click here to see our client endorsement
To see our Standard Terms and Conditions click here
Supplying data and images
We accept data in a variety of formats:
- Electronically
- Online
- Printed material
Our Quality Assurance team works closely with publishers to advise on the best practice and use of technology to provide information electronically. We also ensure standards are met in the provision of information; test feeds and ensuring accuracy and consistency. Our experienced team is on hand to help you provide your information in electronic format whatever your capabilities. Click here for more information on how to supply data.
Electronic
The primary requirements for any supply of data in electronic form are:
- Product Data must be presented in a structured file with each element sufficiently delimited to allow import to our database
- Data structure and any code lists used are clearly documented
- Files are supplied to an agreed regular schedule following a period of import testing and an initial 'full load'.
To submit information electronically - please click here for more information and click here for our guidelines to supplying electronic feeds.
ONIX
ONIX (Online Information Exchange) is the international standard for representing and communicating book industry product information in electronic form. As such, it is BookData’s preferred message format for receiving rich product information from publishers and we have been involved with ONIX for Books from the outset. ONIX can be used by publishers of all sizes and at varying levels of complexity. Our editorial and technical staff have worked with publishers such as HarperCollins, Bloomsbury, CUP and many others to help them implement the standard and we now receive regular information in ONIX form from a growing number of publishers.
For further information click here.
For further information on Nielsen Book's preferred format and guidelines: click here For information on supplying price and availability data, click here and for our P & A guidelines click here or go to http://www.editeur.org/
Online
PubWeb - Editing Service for publishers
PubWeb is free to all publishers and allows you to input your titles, change or amend details quickly and efficiently to ensure that vital information about your books reaches booksellers and libraries worldwide at the earliest opportunity. You can also up-load your jacket/cover images directly onto PubWeb. This service is now widely used by thousands of publishers in the UK.
For further information click here or click on the PubWeb button on the right of your screen.
Jackets/Cover Images
The jacket/cover image is a critical element of the book information we provide, and an essential selling tool for you; we therefore accept these from all publishers for inclusion on our database free of charge. You can send your images to us on DVD/CD, floppy disk or zip disk. Images up to 2MB in size can be sent by email.
For further information click here or email: images.book@nielsen.com
Owing to space restraints on the BookData Disc search and selection services, Nielsen Book will include images at its discretion.
Printed material
Title Information
Whilst we are now actively encouraging all publishers and data suppliers to provide information electronically – as this is quick, efficient and ensures accuracy – we do accept printed material. New title forms can be downloaded, see link below. We do not however accept hand written information and these will be returned to the supplier.
Title Information Form
To download the Title Information Form click here and click here for instructions.
NB Please note you must use this up-to-date form rather than any stock you may have. If we do not receive all the required fields there may be a delay in progressing your title information. Ideally we would like you to use electronic means of supplying title information to us for inclusion in our database.
Change your distributor details
To download the Full Distributor change of details form, click here, and click here for the Partial Distributor change of details form. Click here for instructions
Jacket/cover images
We are also able to scan jackets/covers in-house, although it will take longer for the images to be processed onto the database using this method.
For further information on the various formats for the supply of information, click here
All our services rely on timely, accurate information from you in order that we can provide the high-quality, timely information about your books to your customers. Please ensure your data is up-to-date and keep us fully informed of changes.
Standards Matter
BIC Basic
BIC Basic is a set of standards developed in the UK by Book Industry Communication. It sets a standard for the minimum product information that publishers should supply for a book and provides guidelines and a timetable for supplying this information to trading partners. Major retailers want to have new product information at least 20 weeks before publication. That means you need to provide the data to us at least 6 months before publication.
A new and updated user guidelines for the BIC classification scheme (Release 2) have now been posted on the website, please click here.
For further information, click here. or email: info@bic.org.uk
Search and Selection Services from BookData
BookData Online
Using our BookData Online service enables you to see how your titles are presented to booksellers and libraries worldwide and what is being published by your competitors – if you are a subscribing publisher you can have access to the service at a special price.
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Multiple users and multiple site access are also available, which means you can make BookData Online available to a number of users or across a number of sites. This service is a must for sales, marketing, editorial and management staff and used alongside BookScan sales data is an essential business tool when making acquisition and reprint decisions.
For further information clickhere or for the features and benefits statement click here. To trial the service FREE click on the BookData Online button on the right of your screen.
BookData MARC Service for Publishers
The expertise of Nielsen Book’s editorial and classification teams, along with our extensive knowledge of the library market, allows us to offer a high quality MARC service for your titles, making it simple for you to provide your customers with a service tailored to their requirements.
- Are you confused about library quality standards?
- Do you need MARC data for your e-book platform?
Whether you are looking for MARC records for your e-book collection or for your print editions we can supply a service to meet your needs. For further information please click here or contact our Library Sales team: libraries.book@nielsen.com
Other Publisher Services available within the group:
For BookNet services click here.
For BookScan services click here.
For further information about our Listings Policy click here
