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Publisher Alley is Baker & Taylor’s online inventory, sales, and supply-chain reporting tool created specifically for publishers.

The website provides access to rich title data, as well as up-to-the-minute title activity:

current and historical demand and sales for frontlist and backlist titles by market, submarket, and state
detailed bibliographic information including cover art, awards, and reviews
inventory levels, open orders, and backorder information in all B&T warehouses

Data is available for all of the titles B&T distributes – several million ISBNs in all. The flexibility of reporting options is unparalleled. Results are delivered onscreen or in Excel files for further analysis offline. Watch the Features Demo (above right) to see Publisher Alley in action.

Publisher Alley Data Overview

All wholesaler divisions feed sales data to Pub Alley:

Baker & Taylor
GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO

Sales and demand data is reported across major markets and submarkets.

Retail
Internet, chain, & independent stores.
Library
Academic, public, & school institutions.
International
Retail, library, & government sales.

Government sales (domestic) and (medical) sales are reported separately.

All data exports easily to Excel:

Publisher Alley is a subscription website. Rates are annual and based on a percentage of the publisher's net sales with Baker & Taylor.
This sliding scale makes the product affordable even for startups.

Subscriber Testimonials

Ben Mondloch, Publisher Cherry Lake Publishing
“Pub Alley provides me with the information I need to maximize my sales with Baker & Taylor.”
Darrin Pratt, Director, University Press of Colorado
“Pub Alley is an excellent tool for making print run and pricing decisions, and it is useful in acquisitions as well. Invaluable.”
Grant Kikkert, National Accounts Manager, O’Reilly Media
“Pub Alley gave us new insight into library sales. We now have a rich trend history by title, imprint, and category.”
Meg Moster, Assistant to National Account Rep, Melman-Moster
“I love that the user can look up multiple titles at the same time. Reports are easy to create and use.”
Ruth Zhou, Senior Executive, Marketing, World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc.
“Pub Alley is a very comprehensive database. It allows a deep understanding of book sales and enables better sales forecasts for new titles.”
Dave Cywinski, Key Accounts Manager, Hal Leonard
“Pub Alley is our main tool for researching successful titles. The reporting and functionality is always top notch.”
Cynthia Robbins, National Accounts Manager, Globe Pequot Press
“Using Pub Alley for sales analysis is incredibly time efficient. All the data is right there.”
Tom Lovett, Sales Director Johns Hopkins University
“I use Pub Alley in weekly project review meetings to provide competitive title information for each editor's proposed new projects.”
Erika Valenti, Sales Manager, The MIT Press
“Pub Alley is an invaluable sales analysis tool and a key aspect of overall B&T account management.”

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