Bestselling eBooks for January Announced
eBook Publisher | 11 February, 2005 14:45
Rather than get into summarizing the information, we will simply post their press release and do some analysis over the next few days.
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Motricity's eReader.com Announces Bestselling eBooks for January; eReader.com also Announces Super Game of Savings, Valentine's Day Collections and Black History Month Selections
DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2005--Motricity, the premier provider of mobile content and solutions, today announced the top ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction eBooks for the month of January from its eReader.com division. The company also recognized "Best of 2004" eBooks and continues to feature these award winners at eReader.com.
In February, eReader.com kicks off the month with the Super Game of Savings where teams of authors battle for victory and eBook sales. In the first week, the pros on the Thriller team include David Baldacci, Jan Burke, James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell and other favorites who battle authors from the Mystery, Detective and True Crime categories including Ann Rule, Michael Connolly, Jeffrey Deaver and Janet Evanovich. Customers win each week, as The Super Game of Savings continues throughout month, with a 20% discount off of everyday low prices on any of the 14,000 eBook titles.
Also during the month of February, eReader.com will feature specially priced bouquets of Valentine's Day eBooks including titles in contemporary fiction, historical fiction and relationships and sexuality. eReader.com will also honor great authors and titles in a month-long Black History Month with new releases such as "Jimi Hendrix" by Sharon Lawrence and "Dark Matter: Reading The Bones" by Sheree R.Thomas; as well as perennial bestsellers including "The Souls of Black Folks" by W.E.B. Du Bois and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriett Beecher Stowe.
The New Year ushered in new authors and new bestselling eBooks. In fiction, January's bestsellers included "Alien Infection" by Darrell Bain, a new romance from Liz Carlye "The Devil to Pay" and "Rift", a fast moving suspense by Richard Cox. Dan Brown retains a firm hold on four spots on the fiction top sellers and Michael Crichton returns in the #1 position with "State of Fear".
The Top 10 Fiction eBooks by Unit Sales for January 2005:
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Rank Title Author Publisher Price Category
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Michael Suspense &
1 State of Fear Crichton HarperCollins $19.95 Thrillers
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Suspense &
2 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown Doubleday $14.95 Thrillers
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Suspense &
3 Angels & Demons Dan Brown PocketBooks $7.99 Thrillers
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St. Martin's Suspense &
4 Digital Fortress Dan Brown Press $5.99 Thrillers
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Darrell Science
5 Alien Infection Bain Double Dragon $5.99 Fiction
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Suspense &
6 Deception Point Dan Brown PocketBooks $6.99 Thrillers
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Liz
7 The Devil to Pay Carlyle PocketBooks $5.99 Romance
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Cameron Suspense &
8 The Medici Dagger West PocketBooks $5.99 Thrillers
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Scott Contemporary
9 God's Debris Adams Scott Adams $4.95 Fiction
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Richard Ballantine Suspense &
10 Rift Cox Books $4.50 Thrillers
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eBook titles featured in the New Year, New You promotion helped consumers achieve their resolutions in January. Near the top of the list were "Habit Busting" and "The Procrastinator's Handbook". Close behind were the personal finance planning double header by David Bach--"Start Late, Finish Rich" and "The Automatic Millionaire". Other bestsellers included the new release "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell and "Warrior Soul" a gripping account by former Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer and, the just published, "French Women Don't Get Fat" which appealed to a wide (or is it a thin?) audience.
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Rank Title Author Publisher Price Category
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Pete
1 Habit Busting Cohen HarperCollins $5.00 Self-Help
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David Broadway Investing &
2 Start Late, Finish Rich Bach Books $17.95 Money
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Procrastinator's Rita Walker
3 Handbook Emmett Publishing $5.00 Self-Help
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Malcolm Business &
4 Blink Gladwell Time Warner $15.95 Technology
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5 NIV Holy Bible Zondervan Zondervan $14.99 Religion
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Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam Merriam Dictionaries
6 Eleventh Ed Webster Webster $25.95 & Thesauri
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Merriam-Webster's Merriam Merriam Dictionaries
7 Collegiate Thesaurus Webster Webster $16.95 & Thesauri
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David Broadway Investing &
8 Automatic Millionaire Bach Books $6.99 Money
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Chuck Biography &
9 Warrior Soul Pfarrer Random House $6.99 Memoir
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French Women Don't Get Mireille Diet &
10 Fat Guiliano Knopf $17.95 Fitness
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About eReader.com
eReader.com (formerly Palm Digital Media), a Motricity company, is the world's largest and most popular eBookstore. Successful partnerships with the leading trade and reference publishers such as Random House, Simon & Schuster, Merriam Webster, Time Warner Book Group and more than 80 other prominent publishers, eReader.com offers hundreds of new releases each month.
Founded in 1998, eReader.com has built a devoted customer base of more than 260,000 with thousands of new customers purchasing for the first time every month. For more information please visit: www.ereader.com
About Motricity
Motricity is the premier provider of mobile content infrastructure to the wireless industry, uniquely powering over 100 million mobile subscribers with its market-leading Fuel mobile content delivery platform through global partners such as Verizon Wireless, mmO2, Amazon.com, palmOne and many others. With a catalog of more than 75,000 mobile titles, the company is also one of the world's largest providers of mobile content through its network of consumer websites and channel partnerships, reaching over 10 million consumers worldwide. From games to business applications, and from ringtones to eBooks, Motricity powers the entire spectrum of mobile content delivery solutions for consumers and business partners. For more information, please visit www.motricity.com.
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