SF/Thrillers Dominate Peanutpress's Top E-books
Staff -- Library Journal, 2/26/2001
Science fiction, horror, and thrillers not surprisingly dominate e-publisher Peanutpress.com's list of e-book bestsellers of 2000. Stephen King's independent foray into cyberpublishing, Riding the Bullet, which crashed servers worldwide in a frenzy of downloading, took the number one slot, with his biography On Writing and fictional The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and Hearts in Atlantis also appearing as numbers 13, 17, and 18, respectively, allowing him to carve another notch as the world's top cyberauthor. Perennial sellers such as L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth (No. 9) and John Stith's Manhattan Transfer (No. 12) also made the list. The full list is:
Riding the Bullet by Stephen King (Horror)
The Acorn Principle by Jim Cathcart (Business)
Robert Ludlum's The Hades Factor by Robert Ludlum & Gayle Lynds (Thriller)
The Project 50 by Tom Peters (Business)
The $100,000 Club by D. A. Benton (Business)
The Omega Game by Steven Krane (Thriller)
The Sails of Tau Ceti by Michael McCollum (Sci-Fi)
The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille (Thriller)
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard (Sci-Fi)
Redshift Rendezvous by John E. Stith (Sci-Fi)
Stress for Success by James E. Loehr (Business)
Manhattan Transfer by John E. Stith (Sci-Fi)
On Writing by Stephen King (Bio)
The Survivalist #2: The Nightmare Begins by Jerry Ahern (Adventure)
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (Thriller)
Across a Billion Years by Robert Silverberg (Sci-Fi)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King (Fiction)
Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King (Fiction)
The Plutonium Blonde by John Zakour & Larry Ganem (Sci-Fi)
The Truth Machine by James L. Halperin (Sci-Fi)
Star Trek: S.C.E. #1: The Belly of the Beast by Dean Wesley Smith (Star Trek)
The Year's Best Science Fiction (1999) Edited by Gardner Dozois (Sci-Fi)
The Survivalist #3: The Quest by Jerry Ahern(Adventure)
Star Trek: New Earth: Wagon Train to the Stars by Diane Carey (Star Trek)
Lip Service by M. J. Rose (Fiction)
