Motricity's eReader.com Announces Bestselling eBooks for March.DURHAM, N.C. -- Motricity, the premier provider of mobile content to consumers, today announced the top 10 bestselling fiction and nonfiction eBooks for the month of March from its eReader.com division, the world's largest and most popular eBookstore. A brand new version of the award-winning eReader Pro was introduced on March 22, making the leading eBook reader available to the masses of mobile smartphone A cellular telephone with information access. It provides digital voice service as well as any combination of e-mail, text messaging, pager, Web access, voice recognition, still and/or video camera, MP3, TV or video player and organizer (see PDA). users. eReader Pro for Symbian enables customers to read any of eReader.com's 14,000 plus titles on their Nokia, Sony Ericcson, Sendo and other series 60 and UIQ UIQ User Interface IQ (smartphones) smart phones. In April, eReader.com will introduce new updated versions of eReader Pro for Palm and Pocket PC with new Mac and Windows versions See Windows. to follow. The new eReader Pro also features a built-in copy of the "Merriam Webster Pocket Dictionary Noun 1. pocket dictionary - a dictionary that is small enough to carry in your pocket little dictionary dictionary, lexicon - a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them ." The "Spring into Savings" promotion propelled a number of fiction titles priced below $10 up the bestseller list in March. Mystery master Michael Connelly's "The Narrows" garnered the top spot on the list narrowly beating a group of thrillers including "The Da Vinci da Vinci Surgery A surgical robot for performing certain surgeries–eg, mitral valve repair and laparoscopic procedures–eg, cholecystectomy and gastric ulcer repair. See Laparoscopic surgery, Robotics, Surgical robot. Code", the recently released "Dante's Equation Dante's Equation is the title of a novel authored by Jane Jensen and published in 2003. It was nominated for, and received special citation of the Philip K. Dick Award. ", "Angels and Demons Demons See also devil; evil; ghosts; hell; spirits and spiritualism. ademonist one who denies the existence of the devil or demons. bogyism, bogeyism recognition of the existence of demons and goblins. ", "Digital Fortress Digital Fortress is a novel by American author Dan Brown and published in 1998 by St. Martin's Press (ISBN 0-312-26312-0). Plot summary Susan Fletcher, a brilliant mathematician and head of the National Security Agency's (NSA's) cryptography division, finds herself " and Kathy Reich's "Monday Mourning Monday Mourning is the seventh novel by Kathy Reichs featuring the fictional forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan. Kathy Reichs herself is a forensic anthropologist who works for Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratoire des ". "Time's Eye", coauthored by Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (born 16 December 1917) is a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel , and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the . , and "Darwin's Radio/Darwin's Children" were the Sci-Fi standouts. And in Romance, Sabrina Jeffries' "To Pleasure a Prince" captivated cap·ti·vate tr.v. cap·ti·vat·ed, cap·ti·vat·ing, cap·ti·vates 1. To attract and hold by charm, beauty, or excellence. See Synonyms at charm. 2. Archaic To capture. customers.
The Top 10 Non-Fiction eBooks by Unit Sales for March 2005:
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Rank Title Author Publisher Price Category
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Time Mystery &
1 The Narrows Michael Connelly Warner $6.95 Detectives
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The Da Vinci Suspense &
2 Code Dan Brown Doubleday $14.95 Thrillers
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Arthur C. Clarke and Ballantine Science
3 Time's Eye Stephen Baxter Books $7.99 Fiction
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Darwin's Radio/
Darwin's Science
4 Children Greg Bear Del Rey $7.50 Fiction
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Dante's Ballantine Suspense &
5 Equation Jane Jensen Books $9.95 Thrillers
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Pocket Suspense &
6 Angels & Demons Dan Brown Books $7.99 Thrillers
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St.
Digital Martin's Suspense &
7 Fortress Dan Brown Press $5.99 Thrillers
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Suspense &
8 Monday Mourning Kathy Reichs Scribner $6.99 Thrillers
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To Pleasure a Simon &
9 Prince Sabrina Jeffries Schuster $5.99 Romance
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Pocket Suspense &
10 Deception Point Dan Brown Books $6.99 Thrillers
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Leading the non-fiction bestsellers is "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity" by management guru David Allen. "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. retained a top spot on the list and the just published, "The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said" sold briskly. Dictionaries and Thesauri are perennial favorites Track listing
In the holy season of Easter and Passover, it is not surprising to find that eBooks in religion captured four spots in the Top 10--led by "The Purpose Driven Life", and followed by the "NIV NIV New International Version (of the Bible) NIV Non-Immigrant Visa NIV No Income Verification (loan) NIV Non Invasive Ventilation NIV No Innocent Victim (band) Bible", "The Pagan Christ" by Tom Harpur Thomas "Tom" Harpur (born 1929) is a Canadian author, broadcaster, journalist and theologian. Born in Scarborough, Ontario, Harpur was educated at the University of Toronto, where he won the Jarvis Scholarship in Greek and Latin, the Maurice Hutton Scholarship in Classics, and "Jesus: What He Really Said and Did" by Stephen Mitchell
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Rank Title Author Publisher Price Category
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Getting Things Done:
The Art of Stress- David Penguin-
1 Free Productivity Allen Putnam $14.00 Self Help
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The Purpose-Driven Rick
2 Life Warren Zondervan $14.99 Religion
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3 NIV Holy Bible Zondervan Zondervan $14.99 Religion
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Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate
Dictionary, Eleventh Merriam Merriam Dictionaries
4 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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The 2,548 Best Things Robert Fireside General
6 Anybody Ever Said Byrne Books $8.99 Reference
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Malcolm Business &
7 Blink Gladwell Time Warner $15.95 Technology
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Tom Walker
8 The Pagan Christ Harpur Publishing $10.00 Religion
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Jesus: What He Really Stephen
9 Said and Did Mitchell PerfectBound $9.99 Religion
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Webster's
Webster's New World New John Wiley & Dictionaries
10 College Dictionary World Sons $23.95 & Thesauri
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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, 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 300,000 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 to consumers, 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 catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. 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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