PowerByHand's eReader.com Announces Bestselling eBooks for September; eReader.com Celebrates Sixth Anniversary as a Pioneer in the eBook Marketplace.DURHAM Durham, town and district, England Durham, town (1991 pop. 38,105) and district, county seat of Durham, NE England, on the sides of a hill nearly encircled by the Wear River. The town's small factories produce organs and carpets. , N.C. -- PowerByHand, the premier provider of mobile content and solutions, today announced the top ten bestselling bestselling adjective successful, top, hit (informal) smash (informal) flourishing, lucrative, smash-hit (informal) chart-topping (informal) moneymaking, number one, highly successful 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 September September: see month. from its eReader.com division (formerly Palm Digital Media), the world's largest and most popular electronic bookstore. The company also announced that eReader.com will celebrate its sixth anniversary on October October: see month. 28, 2004. Three favorite eBook See e-book. authors returned to the fiction bestseller list with new titles this month: --Stephen King's "The Dark Tower," the seventh and final volume in the epic Dark Tower series captured the lead position. For October only, eReader.com is offering a great deal on a collection of the first six Dark Tower volumes at a special price of $59.95, more than 38% off the publishers' print prices. --Neal Stephenson completes his Baroque baroque, in art and architecture baroque (bərōk`), in art and architecture, a style developed in Europe, England, and the Americas during the 17th and early 18th cent. Cycle Trilogy A company founded in 1979 by Gene Amdahl to commercialize wafer scale integration and build supercomputers. It raised a quarter of a billion dollars, the largest startup funding in history, but could not create its 2.5" superchip. with the newly published "The System of the World" debuting in the #9 spot after only nine days of eBook sales. eReader.com customers can purchase the entire Baroque Trilogy for $39.90, getting three eBooks for the price of two. --Also appearing on the fiction bestseller list is Fantasy author The definition of a fantasy author is somewhat diffuse, and a matter of opinion - Jules Verne considered H. G. Wells to be a fantasy author - and there is considerable overlap with science fiction authors and horror fiction authors. favorite Terry Brooks who continues his string of eBook successes with "High Druid of Shannara High Druid of Shannara is a trilogy of fantasy novels in the Shannara series by Terry Brooks. Set 20 years after the events of The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara : Tanequil." While the print book sells for $26.95, for a limited time only, eReader.com customers can buy the same novel for only $9.95. "Offering great values on the top titles by favorite authors, and releasing them simultaneously with the publishers' print book is our goal," said Mike Violano, vice president and general manager of eReader.com. "We also provide special offers and collections so customers can stock their eBookshelves at a fraction of the cost of printed books."
The Top 10 Fiction eBooks by Unit Sales for September 2004:
eList Subject
Rank Title Author Publisher Price Category
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Stephen
1 The Dark Tower King Scribner $24.95 Horror
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Suspense &
2 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown Doubleday $14.95 Thrillers
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Darwin's Radio/Darwin's Science
3 Children Greg Bear Del Rey $7.50 Fiction
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Suspense &
4 Angels & Demons Dan Brown Pocket Books $6.99 Thrillers
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St. Martin's Suspense &
5 Digital Fortress Dan Brown Press $5.99 Thrillers
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Suspense &
6 Hawke Ted Bell Atria Books $7.99 Thrillers
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Patricia Mystery &
7 Blow Fly Cornwell Berkley Books $7.99 Detectives
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High Druid of Shannara: Terry Ballantine
8 Tanequil Brooks Books $17.95 Fantasy
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Neal Historical
9 System of the World Stephenson HarperCollins $19.95 Fiction
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10 Minx Julia Quinn HarperCollins $6.99 Romance
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The top non-fiction non-fiction n → littérature f non romanesque non-fiction n → Sachbücher pl adj (book) → Sach-; ( seller at eReader.com in September was "The 9/11 Commission Report" which was converted into eReader format from the Commission's full-text final report. Kitty Kelley's controversial, investigative inspection of the Bushes, "The Family" was another popular choice. "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" and "The 80/20 Individual," two featured titles in September's Work Hard, Play Hard promotion, also landed in the top 10.
The Top 10 Non-Fiction eBooks by Unit Sales for September 2004:
eList
Rank Title Author Publisher Price Subject Category
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National
Commission on
The 9/11 Commission Terrorist Current Events &
1 Report Attacks eReader.com $4.95 Politics
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Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate(R)
Dictionary, Merriam- Merriam- Dictionaries &
2 Eleventh Edition Webster Webster $23.95 Thesauri
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3 The Family Kitty Kelley Doubleday $9.95 Biography/Memoir
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Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate(R) Merriam- Merriam- Dictionaries &
4 Thesaurus Webster Webster $16.95 Thesauri
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5 NIV Holy Bible Zondervan Zondervan $14.99 Religion
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The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective Stephen R. Franklin Business and
6 People Covey Covey $11.95 Technology
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A Short History of Broadway
7 Nearly Everything Bill Bryson Books $17.95 Science & Nature
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The Purpose Driven
8 Life Rick Warren Zondervan $15.99 Religion
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Hank
The Da Vinci Code: Hanegraaff, Tyndale Thought &
9 Fact or Fiction Paul Maier House $4.99 Culture
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Business and
10 The 80/20 Individual Richard Koch Doubleday $9.95 Technology
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For the month of October, eReader.com is running the eReader.com Elections, a daily poll in which customers vote for their favorite eBooks, authors and fictional characters This is a list of fictional characters. It has been expanded into the following lists:
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