Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Random House just announced this week that they'd be providing access to sales data - NY Times article
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This LA Times article talks about Simon & Schuster:
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The sales information that authors can see includes the last six weeks of book sales from a variety of sources, divided by format. There are separate screens for e-book sales, hardcover sales, paperbacks and audiobooks. Those figures come from a number of different kinds of booksellers.
The data come from different sales channels, including mass market stores, national acocunts and warehouse clubs. These data are aggregated: Authors won't be able to see how many of their books sold at, say, Target versus Barnes & Noble, but they will be able to review those numbers overall
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