Palm Announces Best-Sellers

By Planet eBook Editor
February 13, 2002

Palm has announced its top-selling fiction and non-fiction eBooks from Palm Digital Media for February, drawn from its more than 4000 eBook titles. The push from Palm to keep eBooks in the spotlight continued from last week when it announced a special offer encouraging existing Palm Digital Media account holders to spread the word by offering credit incentives.

Fiction

  1. "Up Country" by Nelson DeMille
  2. "Last Man Standing" by David Baldacci
  3. "Riding the Bullet" by Stephen King
  4. "Hart's War" by John Katzenbach
  5. "StarFist: First to Fight" and "StarFist: School of Fire" by David Sherman and Dan Cragg
  6. "Worldwar: In the Balance" and "Worldwar: Tilting the Balance" by Harry Turtledove
  7. "The Sword of Shanarra" and "The Elfstones of Shanarra" by Terry Brooks
  8. "Robert Ludlum's The Hades Factor" by Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds
  9. "The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer" by Joyce Reardon, Ph.D.
  10. "1st to Die" by James Patterson

Non-fiction

  1. Webster's New World Compact School and Office Dictionary from Hungry Minds
  2. Webster's New World College Dictionary from Hungry Minds
  3. "The Procrastinator's Handbook" by Rita Emmett
  4. "The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense" by Suzette Haden Elgin
  5. "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey
  6. "Satisfaction Guaranteed" by Rachel Swift
  7. The Holy Bible, New International Version from Zondervan
  8. "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for Modern Lovers" by Stephen Russell
  9. Random House Roget's Thesaurus from Random House Reference
  10. The New Revised Standard Version -- New Testament and Psalms from Abingdon Press

In January Palm announced sales of more than 180,000 eBooks over 2001. The books, on sale from the Palm site, are formatted for use with the company's Palm Reader software, which runs on PalmOS- and Pocket PC-based handheld devices.