NDLI: Categorization of sales patterns to use blog information as book sales prediction

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Yamada, Takashi Terano, Takao Moon, Geun Chol Yoshikawa, Atsushi Kikuta, Go
Abstract	This paper analyzes four bestselling books in series to find leading indicators of domestic book sales from conventional Blog information. Although Blog information is different from actual purchases, it will influence customer behaviors. They consider it would be useful for decision making of businesses and organizations. Main contributions of the paper are three fold: 1) confirms relationships between on-line information of the number of Blog reference and off-line information of book sales data; 2) observes different sales patterns by analyzing series books and identify factors and classify books into category; and 3) attempts to predict sales pattern based on sales data of three books.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	7
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450314275
DOI	10.1145/2389376.2389378
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2010-08-02
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Real retail sales Leading indicators Word of mouth Blogs Web marketing Demand forecasts Internet sales
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Categorization of sales patterns to use blog information as book sales prediction