northernguru-ga,
Palm Digital Media ( http://www.peanutpress.com/ ) seems to be
responsible for determining the bestseller lists but they don't say
whether they base these lists on revenue or units. The following
information is from their press releases.
The top 10 best-selling non-fiction ebooks for May 2002 were:
1. "God's Debris" by Scott Adams, Scott Adams, Inc.
2. "The Procrastinator's Handbook" by Rita Emmett, Walker & Co.
3. The Holy Bible, New International Version from Zondervan
Publishing
4. "The Agile Manager's Guide to Getting Organized" by Jeff Olsen,
Velocity Business Publishing
5. Webster's New World College Dictionary from Hungry Minds
6. "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey,
FranklinCovey, Inc.
7. Webster's New World Compact School and Office Dictionary from
Hungry Minds
8. Random House Roget's Thesaurus from Random House Reference
9. "What Would Machiavelli Do?/Throwing the Elephant" by Stanley
Bing, HarperCollins PerfectBound
10. "The Multi-Orgasmic Couple" by Chia and Abrams, HarperCollins
PerfectBound
Palm Digital Media
http://www.peanutpress.com/pressrelease.cgi/20020603maytop10
And for April 2002:
1. The Holy Bible, New International Version from Zondervan
2. "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey
3. Webster's New World College Dictionary from Hungry Minds
4. Random House Webster's Pocket Spanish Dictionary from Random House
Reference
5. Webster's New World Compact School & Office Dictionary from Hungry
Minds
6. Random House Roget's Thesaurus from Random House Reference
7. "Piloting Palm" by Andrea Butter and David Pogue
8. "F'd Companies" by Philip J. Kaplan
9. "The Multi-Orgasmic Couple" by Chia, Chia, Abrams and Abrams
10. "Inside 9-11" by Der Spiegel Magazine
From PalmPilotFiles.com
http://www.palmpilotfiles.com/print.php?sid=107
March's list is at Planet eBook:
http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=322
February's list is at Palm Digital Media:
http://www.peanutpress.com/pressrelease.cgi/20020312febtop10
Hope that helps!
liza-ga
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Request for Answer Clarification by
northernguru-ga
on
15 Jun 2002 05:47 PDT
I was really hoping to have the revenue or units in order to support a
business case. Without figures, I have no idea whether this
represents best sellers for Palm's site, or US or worldwide, or
English speaking world...
Also, it appears that this list only includes e-books in e-book format
and not books published in PDF format.
I am new to the answers process, and realize I should have been more
specific. Any help you can provide along these lines to expand upon
your answer would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Clarification of Answer by
liza-ga
on
15 Jun 2002 10:38 PDT
I requested more information from Palm and they said their bestseller
lists are based on units sold, not revenue, and only cover their site.
They won't give out actual figures.
I've requested more information from several other places. Since it's
the weekend, it may take a few days before I hear anything. In the
meantime, I'll see what else I can dig up for you. :)
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Clarification of Answer by
liza-ga
on
17 Jun 2002 16:31 PDT
First, I want to apologize for giving you such a platform-specific
answer originally. I saw those Palm lists on so many sites, I assumed
(wrongly) that they encompassed more of the industry.
I think I've heard back from everyone I emailed over the last few
days. None of the ebook vendors were willing to give exact figures for
their bestseller lists and they also said that all of their lists were
specific to each site. I also asked at some general ebook sites if
anyone knew of a source for compiled lists but it seems that such a
source doesn't exist at this point.
I can give you more lists that aren't so platform-specific but they
will all be site-specific. If it's exact figures you are really
interested in, I'm afraid I can't find any. So let me know if you'd
like more lists and I'll do my best to provide them or you are more
than welcome to request a reposting and give someone else a shot at
your question. :)
liza-ga
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Request for Answer Clarification by
northernguru-ga
on
24 Jun 2002 19:08 PDT
liza,
How do I indicate to Google that you did a great job, but that the
answer I was looking for was not there. I do not think anyone else
can do any better?
Thanks for helping/trying? :-)
Tim
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Clarification of Answer by
liza-ga
on
25 Jun 2002 21:48 PDT
Tim,
If you're satisfied with the answer, you have the option to rate it.
An explanation for doing that is available in the FAQ:
Google Answers: Frequently Asked Questions
"How do I rate a question?"
https://answers.google.com/answers/faq.html#ratequestion
And thanks for your original question. I hope somebody makes a
compiled bestseller list (with figures) available soon. There's
obviously a need for it. :)
liza-ga
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