Bestseller Reporting Crucial During Holiday Selling Season

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As the year comes to an end and bookstores are at their busiest, it is critically important that ABA members continue to report to the Indie Bestseller Lists in order to reflect sales during the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s.

The aggregated Indie Bestseller reports provide concrete data that reinforces to publishers and other industry stakeholders the key role played by independent bookstores. And, as always, reporting your sales guarantees that your store receives a more robust monthly White Box mailing of publisher-sponsored ARCs and galleys.

Bookselling This Week will be on vacation next week, but the Indie Bestseller Lists will be produced, uploaded, and e-mailed to stores as usual.

For those reporting via ABA Manual Entry and ABA File Upload, the Bestseller reporting deadlines remain unchanged during the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s:

  • ABA Manual Entry: 3:00 a.m. EST on Tuesday, December 22, and on Tuesday, December 29, via the ABA reporting site.
  • ABA File Upload: 3:00 a.m. EST on Tuesday, December 22, and on Tuesday, December 29, via the ABA reporting site.

BookScan Reporters should transmit reports to BookScan from their POS before 5:00 p.m. EST on Monday, December 21, and on Monday, December 28, to ensure their data for the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s is collected. Bookstores that need to reach BookScan because this deadline is not possible, or for any other reason, should contact [email protected].