AVN Debuts New Weekly Sales and Rental Chart

AVN has debuted a new weekly sales and rental chart on the front page of AVN.com

According to AVN founder Paul Fishbein, the new chart, titled “Retail Buzz,” comes in response to retailer and distributor suggestions.

It will not replace the charts that appear in the monthly AVN magazine or the same ones that debut on the AVN Website the first of every month. Rather, it will sample retailers’ rental and sales — as well as reports from on-line retailers — on a weekly basis.

To view the chart, click here.

“Because of the vast amount of new releases each week, this chart will provide sales and rental information closer to ‘real time,’" Fishbein told AVN.com. He emphasized that it will be taken from a random sampling of retailers who provide information.

“We welcome retailers to provide their sales and/or rental charts each week via e-mail or fax,” he said, adding “please do not call me to report on your new releases. E-mail me, of course, but please don’t call.

“The more new retailers we add to this charting procedure, the better.”

AVN, he said, is working on a scanning system that will chart everything automatically, and that will hopefully be ready soon.

Retailers should contact Fishbein with sales and/or rental information at [email protected] or by fax at 818.718-5799.