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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