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Top Forty "Best Sellers": September 2000

In September 2000 we delivered 323,575 ebooks to thousands of individuals in a hundred countries.


Author/Title Number of Ebooks
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Aesop: Fables2,103
Wells: War of the Worlds1,701
Darwin: Origin of Species1,404
Carroll: Alice in Wonderland [with illustrations]1,345
Carroll: Alice in Wonderland [without illustrations]1,294
Beowulf1,179
Franklin: Autobiography1,170
Shakespeare: Macbeth1,107
Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days1,033
Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow1,019
Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles992
Melville: Moby Dick985
Twain : Huckleberry Finn978
Shelley : Frankenstein922
Wells : The Time Machine866
Frost : Group of Four Poems858
Baum : Marvelous Land of Oz [with illustrations]854
Carroll : Through the Looking Glass843
Milton : Paradise Lost (1667 edition)835
Coleridge : Rime of the Ancient Mariner830
Boccaccio : The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love 826
Kipling : Jungle Book825
Wilde : The Picture of Dorian Gray810
Book of Genesis [King James Bible]792
Declaration of Independence761
Poe : The Murders in the Rue Morgue 751
Abbott : David Crockett: His Life and Adventures 750
Moore : The Night Before Christmas748
Dickens : Tale of Two Cities746
Wells : Invisible Man727
Verne : Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea725
Burr : Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 719
Dostoevsky : Notes from the Underground 707
Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet706
Caesar : Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars699
Dickens : David Copperfield696
Dickens : Christmas Carol694
Alcott : Little Women691
Abbott : Aboriginal America681
Burroughs : The Gods of Mars680