Moreover,
Book sales monitoring:
Since its launch at the Paris Book Festival, Filéas has attracted more and more authors. Nevertheless,
The aim of this platform is to restore the authors the sales figures for their books. However,
You should know that when an author publishes a book with a publisher, he knows the number of sales made on each title, on average, once a year.
With Filéas, this problem will be solved! However, The authors understood this. In just over three months, there are now more than 3000 to be registered on the platform.
What is Filéas?
Filéas is a “booktracking” platform (monitoring of books sales) created by a group of eight major players in the book chain in France, including the National Edition union (SNE).
For the authors, Filéas was designed to meet a need for transparency on the sales figures of their books. Access to the platform is free and purely informative for authors, translators, prefackers, illustrators, etc.
How does it work for the authors?
The authors can create an account on the Filéas platform. To do this. it is necessary to justify their identity (for example, by downloading an identity document and an extract of the publishing contract). It’s free!
After verification, they will receive connection codes to access their personal space.
They will be able to consult the sales data of their works.
First, the platform provides extrapolated weekly figures (from GFK). They give a general idea of sales on a wide range of points of sale.
Ultimately (early 2026), Filéas plans to offer daily data from actual sales in bookstores.
The Filéas project aims to connect all the book sales monitoring players in the book chain (booksellers, publishers, authors) and to improve the circulation of information as well as the economic efficiency of the sector.
book sales monitoring — Book sales monitoring: Since its launch at the Paris Book Festival. Filéas has attracted more and more authors. The aim of this platform is to restore the authors the sales figures for their books. You should know that when an author publishes a book with a publisher, he know.
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