Motricity's eReader.com Announces Bestselling eBooks for November; eReader.com Featured in The New York Times Book Review Article.DURHAM, N.C. -- Motricity, the premier provider of mobile content and solutions, today announced the top ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction non·fic·tion n. 1. Prose works other than fiction: I've read her novels but not her nonfiction. 2. The category of literature consisting of works of this kind. eBooks for the month of November from its eReader.com division (formerly Palm Digital Media), the world's largest and most popular electronic bookstore. Motricity also announced that eReader.com was featured in The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Book Review on Sunday December 5, 2004 in an article highlighting the double-digit growth of the eBook market. That article can be found online at http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/books/review/05GLAZERL.html?oref= login&pagewanted=print&position. (Due to its length, this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) "The New York Times article is a tremendous validation See validate. validation - The stage in the software life-cycle at the end of the development process where software is evaluated to ensure that it complies with the requirements. not only for eReader.com, but also for eBooks in general," said Ryan Wuerch, Motricity's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and chairman. "We are thrilled to play such a prominent role in the fast growing eBook market and look forward to continuing to educate consumers on this exciting medium and delivering the bestselling eBooks that readers have come to expect from eReader.com." In the spirit of giving, eReader.com is offering new and old customers alike a special free eBook each day through December 25. Among the titles offered in this "Deck Your Device" promotion are "The 9/11 Commission Report" which is on the November nonfiction bestseller list, select Star Trek  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. titles from Simon &
Schuster Simon & SchusterU.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. , and popular classics including "The Time Machine", Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales This is a list of fairy tales, the dates of their earliest known printed version, the author and, if known, the collection of tales in which it was published. It should be noted, however, that not all stories listed below would be categorized as fairy tales by a strict definition , "A Christmas Carol" and "Little Women". Capturing the top two fiction bestseller slots is an author who is well known for his wit. While Scott Adams' day job is bringing the Dilbert cartoon to life for millions of readers, he is also a popular eBook author. His self-published title, "God's Debris God's Debris: A Thought Experiment (ISBN 0-7407-4787-8) is a 2001 novella by Dilbert creator Scott Adams. God's Debris creates a philosophy based on the idea that the simplest explanation tends to be the best (a corruption of Occam's Razor). " grabbed the top eBook spot for the month of November, while his most recent piece of work, "The Religion War" is the second highest-selling eBook for November. James Patterson's "London Bridges London Bridge, granite, five-arched bridge formerly over the Thames, in London, England. It is 928 ft (283 m) long and was designed by John Rennie and built between 1824 and 1831. ", the next episode in the thrilling Alex Cross series, was bundled with "Big Bad Wolf The Big Bad Wolf (sometimes called the Big Ol' Wolf) is a fictional character who first appeared in the Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids, Peter and the Wolf and other folk tales. " so eReader customers received an extra bargain last month. Another suspenseful sus·pense n. 1. The condition of being physically suspended. 2. a. The state or quality of being undecided, uncertain, or doubtful. b. bestseller was the new release, "Night Fall," by Nelson DeMille Nelson Richard DeMille (born August 23, 1943) is an American author. DeMille was born in New York City and resides in Garden City, New York, a village on Long Island. He attended Elmont Memorial High School in Elmont, NY, is a graduate of Hofstra University and served in the . Dan Brown continues to entertain eBook readers with his trio of suspense SUSPENSE. When a rent, profit a prendre, and the like, are, in consequence of the unity of possession of the rent, &c., of the land out of which they issue, not in esse for a time, they are said to be in suspense, tunc dormiunt, but they may be revived or awakened. Co, Litt. 313 a. thrillers that remain firmly entrenched en·trench also in·trench v. en·trenched, en·trench·ing, en·trench·es v.tr. 1. To provide with a trench, especially for the purpose of fortifying or defending. 2. on all bestseller lists--digital and analog. The Top 10 Fiction eBooks by Unit Sales unit sales Sales measured in terms of physical units rather than dollars. Unit sales data are often used by financial analysts when evaluating the health of a company. for November 2004:
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Rank Title Author Publisher Price Category
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Scott Contemporary
1 God's Debris Adams Scott Adams $4.95 Fiction
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Scott Contemporary
2 Religion War Adams Scott Adams $4.95 Fiction
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James Suspense &
3 London Bridges Patterson Time Warner $16.95 Thrillers
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James Suspense &
4 Ice Hunt Rollins PerfectBound $7.99 Thrillers
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James Suspense &
5 Big Bad Wolf Patterson Time Warner $5.95 Thrillers
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Suspense &
6 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown Doubleday $14.95 Thrillers
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Suspense &
7 Angels & Demons Dan Brown Pocket Books $7.99 Thrillers
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8 Darwin's Radio/ Science
Darwin's Children Greg Bear Del Rey $7.50 Fiction
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Nelson Mystery &
9 Night Fall DeMille Time Warner $16.95 Detectives
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St. Martin's Suspense &
10 Digital Fortress Brown, Dan Press $5.99 Thrillers
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The top nonfiction list at eReader.com in November was filled with reference favorites like the Merriam Webster Webster, town (1990 pop. 16,196), Worcester co., S Mass., near the Conn. line; settled c.1713, set off from Dudley and Oxford and inc. 1832. The chief manufactures are footwear, fabrics, and textiles. Dictionary and Thesaurus, and the just released eReader version of "Electronic Pocket Oxford English Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary (OED) great multi-volume historical dictionary of English. [Br. Hist.: Caught in the Web of Words] See : Lexicography ". Bill Bryson's "Short History of Nearly Everything" is perfect for mobile device readers on the go who want to know a bit about all things. In addition to 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) Holy Bible Holy Bible name for book containing the Christian Scriptures. [Christianity: NCE, 291] See : Writings, Sacred ", rounding out the top 10 are two eReader's Choice winners "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", and "Band of Brothers", plus two newcomers "Infection Protection" and "From Altoids to Zima". The Top 10 Non-Fiction eBooks by Unit Sales for November 2004:
eList Subject
Rank Title Author Publisher Price Category
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7 Habits of Highly Stephen R. Franklin Business &
1 Effective People Covey Covey $15.00 Technology
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Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate(R) Merriam- Merriam- Dictionaries
2 Dictionary Webster Webster $25.95 & Thesauri
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Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate(R) Merriam- Merriam- Dictionaries
3 Thesaurus Webster Webster $16.95 & Thesauri
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4 NIV Holy Bible Zondervan Zondervan $14.99 Religion
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Short History of Broadway Science &
5 Nearly Everything Bill Bryson Books $17.99 Nature
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National
Commission
on Current
Terrorist Events &
6 9/11 Commission Report Attacks eReader.com $4.95 Politics
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Electronic Pocket Oxford Oxford
Oxford English University University Dictionaries
7 Dictionary Press Press $18.00 & Thesauri
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Ronald
Klatz,
Robert M.
Goldman,
Catherine Health &
8 Infection Protection Cebula PerfectBound $11.95 Medicine
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9 From Altoids to Zima Evan Morris Fireside $10.95 Reference
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Stephen E. Simon &
10 Band of Brothers Ambrose Schuster $6.99 History
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