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BlackBerryToday > News > Top eBooks Last Month Top eBooks Last Month
By James Alan Miller
The Open eBook Forum, the trade and standards association for the eBook industry, has released its June eBook Bestseller List. While its no New York Times Bestseller List, the tally is a way to see what folks who choose to read books on there PDAs, smartphones, eBook readers and PCs are buying and even borrowing. According to the Open eBook Forum, bestsellers are calculated by aggregate unit sales from reporting retailers and distributors, including eReader.com, Fictionwise, eBooks.com and OverDrive, a company that helps libraries setup eBook loaning systems. The most recent statistics offered by the Open eBook Forum say $3,227,972 in eBook sales were logged by retailers in Q3 2004, a 25 percent increase over the same period in 2003 when retailers reported $2,591,469 in eBooks sales. A total of 419,962 eBooks were sold in Q3 2004 alone, an 11 percent increase over the same period in 2003 when 377,095 were sold.
Borrow, Don't Buy With OverDrive's Digital Library System, local libraries can serve eBooks to patrons remotely from their websites. As a result, they can checkout and return eBook titles as if they were doing so for paper-based books at the local branch. With its eBook lending system, patrons use a valid library card to check out and download eBooks and other digital media. At the end of the loan period, eBooks are automatically returned. In essence, a digital rights management system makes the eBook unreadable after a certain period, unless—of course—you check the eBook out again. In a recent survey of the most borrowed eBooks, OverDrive found that PDF—read using popular Adobe Reader software—is the overwhelming format of choice for patrons and students while MobiPocket Reader is gaining ground among PDA and Smartphone users. Related Links:
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