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 Thursday, June 24, 2004

Top eBooks Library Patrons Aren't Reading

Top 10 eBooks Library Patrons Are Reading

"The "Most Borrowed eBooks" statistics are from checkout information of tens of thousands of titles for the first half 2004.

1) Dude, Where's My Country? -- Michael Moore
2) The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People -- David Niven
3) The Low-Carb Comfort Food Cookbook -- Michael R. Eades, et al
4) The Big Bad Wolf -- James Patterson
5) How Would You Move Mount Fuji: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle --
William Poundstone
6) 3rd Degree -- James Patterson
7) The Lovely Bones -- Alice Sebold
8) 101 Best Tech Resumes -- Jay Block
9) Left Behind - Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
10) 1984 -- George Orwell" [Yahoo Finance, via Resourceshelf]

All this does is highlight the big, huge mistake J.K. Rowling continues to make by refusing to make the Harry Potter books available via Audible. Yeah, I know she's still making money hand over fist, but it's not like I can't rip the CDs to listen to them, like others who have shared the files on P2P networks worldwide. She could dominate this list, too, if she just faced reality.

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