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Bookscan, for instance, is a system made and marketed by Soundscan, the company that brings you the music industry's greatest-hits charts.
Now it's wham-bam: An album isn't catching on in a week or two (as measured by Soundscan) and the plug gets pulled on promotion, the CD gets pulled from racks, etc.
You don't need to sit through the whole two hours--particularly when you could be watching figure skating on TNT--but flip over occasionally to see if you can catch John Travolta's 1975 screen test for the role of Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter . At 9 PM, music fans who really care which CDs topped the Soundscan charts this year may want to turn to a rerun of the 9th Annual Billboard Music Awards on VH1.
Soundscan gets its numbers from a scanning device installed at checkout counters at more than 85 percent of all music outlets in America.
The system is the UPC or in the case of books a EAN/ISBN number that when a book is scanned by a retailer identifies the book, format, suggested price point, genre, etc. --Tom Fogarty, Soundscan executive in charge of Bookscan.
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