Copies Sold

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Copies Sold will refer to Month, Year to Date, Life abbreviated as "Month", "YTD" and "Life"

"Copies Sold" is the net sales in copies, number of copies invoiced minus the number returned and credited.

"Month" is the calendar month specified at the top of the report.

"YTD" stands for Year to Date, this is the financial year running April - March. If the report is for November the Copies Sold YTD will be all the copies sold since April 1st including those sold in November.

"Life" stands for sales ever since Central began selling this title. 

All the figures are inclusive, in the example shown Understanding Book Sales Reports the YTD figure includes the August sales and the life figure includes the year's sales. 

Copies Sold in the example shown atUnderstanding Book Sales Reports

This column shows the number of copies sold in the Month, Year and Life of the titles. The 3rd row of the example 181 copies of Maternity Handbook 7th have been sold in the month of August, whilst 4 copies of Maternity Handbook 6th have been returned in the financial year giving a net figure of -4 (2nd row)  

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