The
Open eBook Forum—the standards association for the eBook industry—has compiled its list of the top-ten best selling eBooks for last year. Not surprisingly, Dan Brown’s
The Da Vinci Code topped the list and his
Angels & Demons and
Deception Point round out the top three.
Although eBook sales aren't a match for traditional paperback and hard cover book sales (1.4 million downloadable books compared with the more than 2.2 billion traditional books sold in the United States in 2003), they are on the rise.
According to the Open eBook Forum, eBook revenues ($3,227,972) for the third quarter of 2004 by 25 percent ($2,591,469) and units sold grew 11 percent (419,962 eBooks), from the same quarter in 2003.
You can curl (?) up with an eBooks with a number of different devices, including PCs, eBook-specific readers, PDAs, and smartphones.
2004 eBook Bestsellers
1 - The Da
Vinci Code
Dan
Brown - Doubleday $14.95
2 - Angels & Demons
Dan
Brown - PocketBooks $6.99
3 - Deception
Point
Dan
Brown - PocketBooks $6.99
4 - Digital
Fortress
Dan
Brown - St. Martin's Press $5.99
5 - Darwin's Radio
Greg Bear - Del Rey $6.99
6 - Holy Bible, New International Version
International
Bible Society - Zondervan $14.99
7 - I, Robot
Isaac
Asimov - Spectra $4.99
8 - Electronic Pocket Oxford English
Dictionary & Thesaurus Value Pack
Oxford University Press $19.95
9 - Darwin's Children
Greg
Bear - Del Rey $6.99
10 - Merriam-Webster's Collegiate®
Dictionary
Merriam-Webster $25.95
11 - The
Purpose Driven Life
Rick
Warren - Zondervan $15.99
12 - The Rule of Four
Ian
Caldwell, Dustin Thomason - Dell Publishing $17.95
13 - State of
Fear
Michael
Crichton - HarperCollins $19.95
14 - Merriam-Webster's Collegiate®
Thesaurus
Merriam-Webster $16.95
15 - Letters to Penthouse XIX
Editors
Of Penthouse - Warner Books $5.95
16 - The Automatic
Millionaire
David
Bach - Broadway Books $14.00
17 - Pandora's Star
Peter
F. Hamilton - Ballantine $9.95
18 - The Year
Ahead 2004
Susan Miller Barnes & Noble Digital $9.95
19 - God's Debris
Scott
Adams - Scott Adams $4.95
20 - Prey
Michael
Crichton - HarperCollins $7.99
21 - The Da
Vinci Code: Fact or Fiction ?
Hank
Hanegraaff, Paul Maier - Tyndale $4.99
22 - The Medici Dagger
Cameron
West - PocketBooks $5.99
23 - Foundation
Isaac
Asimov - Bantam Books $4.99
24 - The Procrastinator's Handbook
Rita
Emmett - Walker Publishing $5.00
25 - Song of Susannah
Stephen
King - Scribner $19.95
26 - Electronic Pocket Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford University Press $18.00
27 - The Dark
Tower
Stephen
King - Scribner $19.95
28 - The Big
Bad Wolf
James
Patterson Time - Warner $5.95
29 - Against All Enemies
Richard
A. Clarke - Simon & Schuster $14.94
30 - The Art
of War
Sun
Tzu PDM - Classics $2.95
