Motricity's eReader.com Announces Bestselling eBooks for February; eReader.com Also Helps Customers Keep The Romance Alive with Special Features in March.DURHAM, N.C. -- Motricity, the premier provider of mobile content and solutions, today announced the top ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction eBooks for the month of February from its eReader.com division, the world's largest and most popular eBookstore. The company also announced a special promotion in March to help eReader.com customers keep the romance alive. A different bestselling romance author, such as beloved queens of the genre Nora Roberts Nora Roberts (born October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland as Eleanor Marie Robertson), is a bestselling American author of more than 150 romance novels. She was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. , Sherrilyn Kenyon Sherrilyn Kenyon (born 1965) is a bestselling and award-winning American author. Under her own name she is known for her paranormal romance and vampire chronicles. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor she is also well known for her historical romance novels. , Lisa Kleypas Lisa Kleypas (born 1964) is a best-selling American author of romance novels set primarily in the nineteenth century. In 1985, she was named Miss Massachusetts and competed in the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. , Julia Quinn, Jude Deveraux Jude Deveraux (b. September 20, 1947 in Fairdale, Kentucky as Jude Gilliam) is an American Romance novel author who is well-known for her historical romance. Biography Deveraux is the elder sister of four brothers, and has a large extended family. , Liz Carlyle Liz Carlyle (b. August 7 in U.S.) is an American author of historical romance novels. Biography Carlyle attended college on a Scripps Howard writing scholarship and majored in journalism. , Mary Balogh Mary Balogh (rhymes with Kellogg, born Mary Jenkins on 1944 in Swansea, Wales) is a British-Canadian historical romance novelist. Biography Personal life , Stephanie Laurens Stephanie Laurens (b. Ceylon, now Sri Lanka) is a best-selling Australian author of romance novels. Biography Stephanie Laurens was born in Sri Lanka, which was at the time the British colony of Ceylon. and Janet Evanovich Janet Evanovich (born April 22, 1943, in South River, New Jersey) is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a lingerie , will be featured everyday. With selections including historical romance Historical romance is a subgenre of the romance novel literary genre. Definition Historical romance is set before World War I.[1] Many historical romances include contemporary attitudes, as, for example, the heroines often have far more education than was the , romantic suspense and relationship advice, there is something for everyone at eReader.com. February fiction bestsellers were chock-full of suspense thrillers led by the techno techno electronic dance music that first appeared in the U.S. in the 1980s and became globally popular in the 1990s. It originated with Detroit deejay-producers who, inspired by European electro-pop, underlaid dreamy synthesizer melodies with rapid electronic rhythms. thriller "Rift" by Richard Cox Richard Cox may refer to:
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The Top 10 Fiction eBooks by Unit Sales for February 2005:
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Rank Title Author Publisher Price Category
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Ballantine Suspense &
1 Rift Richard Cox Books $17.95 Thrillers
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The Da Vinci Suspense &
2 Code Dan Brown Doubleday $14.95 Thrillers
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James Little Brown Suspense &
3 3rd Degree Patterson & Co. $ 5.99 Thrillers
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James
Patterson
and Little Brown Suspense &
4 Honeymoon Howard Roughan & Co. $16.95 Thrillers
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Dan Suspense &
5 Deception Point Brown PocketBooks $ 6.99 Thrillers
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Dan Suspense &
6 Angels & Demons Brown PocketBooks $ 7.99 Thrillers
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Jane Ballantine Suspense &
7 Dante's Equation Jensen Books $ 9.95 Thrillers
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Dan St. Martin's Suspense &
8 Digital Fortress Brown Press $ 5.99 Thrillers
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Darrell Science
9 Alien Infection Bain Double Dragon $ 5.99 Fiction
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Jeffrey Simon & Suspense &
10 Garden of Beasts Deaver Schuster $ 6.99 Thrillers
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Michael Suspense &
10 State of Fear Crichton HarperCollins $19.95 Thrillers
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Non-fiction bestsellers spanned from the boardroom to the bedroom in February. Featured Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. titles stirred the passions of eBook customers with three titles making the list. "How to Make Love All Night (and Drive a Woman Wild)" and "Hot Sex" finished in the top slots joined by "The French Maid For the 1897 British musical comedy, see . French maid refers to a strongly modified style of servant’s dress that evolved from typical maids’ black and white afternoon uniforms of the nineteenth century (and their later use by stereotypical characters in risqué and 21 More Naughty Sex Fantasies to Surprise and Arouse Your Man." Those seeking fulfillment at work chose "Life is a Series of Presentations", "The Ten Day MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration , Rev Ed" and "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell (born September 1, 1963) is a United Kingdom-born, Canadian-raised journalist now based in New York City who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. . The newly released reference guide, "The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said," was another hot seller.
The Top 10 Non-Fiction eBooks by Unit Sales for February 2005:
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Rank Title Author Publisher Price Category
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How to Make Love
All Night (and Barbara Relationships
1 Drive a Woman Wild) Keesling, PhD HarperCollins 6.99 & Sexuality
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Hot Sex: Relationships
2 How to Do It Tracy Cox Bantam Books 9.95 & Sexuality
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3 NIV Holy Bible Zondervan Zondervan $14.99 Religion
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Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate
Dictionary, Merriam Merriam Dictionaries
4 Eleventh Ed Webster Webster $25.95 & Thesauri
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Merriam-Webster's Merriam Merriam Dictionaries
5 Collegiate Thesaurus Webster Webster $16.95 & Thesauri
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Tony Jeary,
Kim Dower,
Life is a Series J.E. Business &
6 of Presentations Fishman Fireside Books 8.99 Technology
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The French Maid and Don
21 More Naughty Sex Macleod
Fantasies to Surprise and Debra Broadway Relationships
7 and Arouse Your Man Macleod Books 9.95 & Sexuality
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The 2,548 Best Things Robert General
8 Anybody Ever Said Byrne Fireside Books 8.99 Reference
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The Ten Day MBA, Steven A. Business &
9 Rev Ed. Silbiger HarperCollins 12.95 Technology
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Malcolm Business &
10 Blink Gladwell Time Warner $15.95 Technology
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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, Penguin/Putnam, Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller. , 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 290,000 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 solutions and services to the wireless industry, uniquely powering over 120 million mobile subscribers with its market-leading Fuel mobile content delivery platform through global partners such as Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. , 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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