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Shards of Empire
Susan Shwartz
In the tenth century, the center of the world is not Rome, but Byzantium--a glorious empire, upon which the sun never sets. Constantinople, the center of this mighty dynasty, is starting to unravel. The great k...
The Mommy Chronicles
Leslie Tonner
Follow the adventures of Charlie, an urban three-year-old on the fast track, and his slow-track mommy. In this hilarious volume, Charlie gets a haircut like Sting's, runs up a tab at a baseball game, and prefer...
Creative Divorce
Mel Krantzler
Divorce therapist Mel Krantzler approaches the subject of divorce from a unique perspective and offers an optimistic outlook and hopeful opportunities for personal growth to those struggling to recognize and ...
The Psychic Power of Animals
Bill D. Schul
Pets are more than companions. The animals we share our lives with are channels to another world. Documentation exists that proves animals do indeed possess a sixth sense. Discover the mysterious and fantastic ...
The Destiny of the Sword
Dave Duncan
Wally Smith, having died on Earth, finds himself reincarnated as a swordsman in another world and entrusted by the presiding goddess with a mission that has no appeal for him at all. Can he bring together a...
The Duke's Dilemma
Elizabeth Chater
March Wendell knows he can inherit the earldom--but the young earl stands in his way and he's determined to change that. When Lady Leslie Endale realizes that her guardian March Wendell is the one responsible f...
The Hunger of Time
Damien Broderick
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LockeStep
Ted Wood
Professional bodyguard John Locke is in no mood to baby-sit Greg Amadeo, a drug dealer turncoat who wants to visit his wife in Mexico, collect some cash and settle debts before testifying in the States, but h...
Arrow to the Heart
Jennifer Blake
Around two of the most wonderful characters she has ever created, Jennifer Blake spins an utterly passionate story set within a steamy, languorous time and place: nineteenth-century Louisiana, where a Southern ...
After the Madness
Sol Wachtler
Driving down the Long Island Expressway in November of 1992, Sol Wachtler was New York's Chief Judge and heir apparent to the New York Governorship. Suddenly, three van loads of FBI agents swerved in front of h...
Darling, It's Death
Richard S. Prather
Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and murder on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters i...
Natural Medicine for Weight Loss
Deborah Mitchell
DO YOU KNOW... The metabolic rate of two people of the same age, sex, and body type may vary as much as 20 percent; Most of the weight loss from popular high-protein diets is water? and not fat; An addiction to...
Rivers in the Desert
Margaret Leslie Davis
RIVERS IN THE DESERT is the quintessential American story. It follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of th...
Phases of Gravity
Dan Simmons
Richard Baedecker thinks his greatest challenge was walking on the moon, but then he meets a mysterious woman who shows him his past. Join Baedecker as he comes to grips with the son and wife he lost in his pas...
No, He's Not A Monkey, He's An Ape and He's My Son
Hester Mundis
This book answers the question that’s on everybody's mind: “What’s it like to raise a chimpanzee in Manhattan?” Hester Mundis’s hilarious memoir NO HE'S NOT A MONKEY, HE'S AN APE AND HE'S MY SON is th...
Hustle Sweet Love
Maggie Davis
Leaving Tulsa, Oklahoma behind for the glamorous life of a fashionista in New York City, model Lacy Kinsgley find herself on an adventurous journey of self-discovery. Lacy's all-American good looks and sexy fas...
It’s our favorite time of the month, IDPF’s report on e-book sales, and the third quarter’s numbers leave the previous year’s in the dust: $46.5 million versus $13.9M. Q3-09 also tops the previous quarter by $8.9 million.
September of this year nearly tripled the same month a year ago, $15.9 million vs. $5.9M
The true sales numbers may be even higher than the above chart indicates. Michael Smith, Executive Director of IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) reminds us that:
* This data represents United States revenues only
* This data represents only trade eBook sales via wholesale channels. Retail numbers may be as much as double the above figures due to industry wholesale discounts.
* This data represents only data submitted from approx. 12 to 15 trade publishers
* This data does not include library, educational or professional electronic sales
* The numbers reflect the wholesale revenues of publishers
* The definition used for reporting electronic book sales is “All books delivered electronically over the Internet OR to hand-held reading devices”
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It’s our favorite time of the month, IDPF’s report on e-book sales, and the third quarter’s numbers leave the previous year’s in the dust: $46.5 million versus $13.9M. Q3-09 also tops the previous quarter by $8.9 million.
