eReader Pro for Symbian enables
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The Purpose-Driven Rick
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list were two Dan
Brown favorites, "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons," along
with Michael
Connelly's "The Narrows.99 Fiction
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In April, eReader. Clarke, and "Darwin's Radio/Darwin's Children"
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The World Is Flat: Farrar,
A Brief History of
Thomas L.95 Self-Help
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Getting Things Done:
The Art of Stress- Penguin-
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Just in time for spring cleaning is another
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time, a great thrill to be
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media
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New York Times photographer
Chester Higgins, Jr. Miramax Books initially published novels,
screenplays and some related written
materials including the screenplay from
The Piano, the 1993 Academy Award winning Best Picture written
by Jane
Campion, which became the highest selling screenplay ever; a novelization from
The Piano
, which sold more than 100,000 copies; and Quentin Tarantino's Pulp
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eReader.com, palmOne
and many others.Motricity's eReader.com Announces Bestselling eBooks for April; ``Read the eBook See
the Movie'' Tie-ins Featured
----Motricity, the
premier provider of mobile content to consumers
, today announced the
top 10 bestselling fiction and nonfiction eBooks for the month of
April from
its eReader.com
About Motricity
Motricity is the premier provider of mobile content to
consumers,
uniquely powering over 120 million mobile subscribers with its
market-leading Fuel
mobile content delivery platform through global
partners such as Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless
, China Unicom,
mmO2, Amazon. From games to business applications, and from ringtones to
eBooks
, Motricity powers the entire spectrum of mobile content
delivery solutions for consumers and business
partners. Weisbach assumes his new roles effective April 11, 2005 and will
report to Bob and Harvey
Weinstein at both companies.
There, he worked with authors including CBS News Anchor Bob Schieffer
, Emmy
Award-winning comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, Russian wunderkind
Irina Denezhkina
, critically acclaimed novelist Bruce Wagner, and influential
civil rights attorney Evan Wolfson.
by Ellen
DeGeneres.M. Jerri Nielsen.
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A brand new version of the award-winning eReader
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Dante's Ballantine Suspense +
5 Equation
Jane Jensen Books $9.
Digital Martin's Suspense
+
7 Fortress Dan Brown Press $5."
The Top 10 Fiction eBooks by Unit
Sales for April 2005:
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Title Author Publisher Price Category
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Star Wars: Episode III George
Science
1 Revenge of the Sith Lucas Del Ray $ 4.99 Fiction
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Life, the Universe Douglas
Science
6 and Everything Adams Rosetta Books $ 8. Friedman and
former GE CEO Jack
Welch's "Winning" were also among the most popular eBooks in April.00 Self-Help
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6 NIV Holy Bible
Zondervan Zondervan $ 13. With a catalog of more than
500,000 mobile titles, the company
is also one of the world's largest
providers of mobile content through its network of consumer websites
and channel partnerships, reaching over 10 million consumers
worldwide.
will have a financial
interest in the books that are published by Miramax
Books in fiscal years 2006 and 2007 that are
currently scheduled for
publication.gumby bestseller
Business Editors/Book Editors/Internet Writers
DURHAM
, N." "The
World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century" by Pulitzer
prize winning journalist
Thomas L.com
eReader. It is anticipated
that new titles acquired by WeinsteinCo.bookbrowse gaping
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The Da Vinci
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2 Code Dan Brown Doubleday
$14.
In the holy season of Easter and Passover, it is not surprising to
find that eBooks in religion
captured four spots in the Top 10--led by
"The Purpose Driven Life", and followed by the "NIV Bible
", "The Pagan
Christ" by Tom Harpur and "Jesus: What He Really Said and Did" by
Stephen Mitchell
. Successful
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Random House
, Penguin/Putnam, Simon + Schuster, Merriam Webster,
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eReader. Motricity is
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----Motricity, the
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top 10 bestselling fiction and nonfiction eBooks for the month
of
March from its eReader. "Time's Eye",
coauthored by Arthur C.99 Thrillers
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To Pleasure a
Simon +
9 Prince Sabrina Jeffries Schuster $5.
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Getting Things Done:
The Art of Stress- David Penguin-
1 Free Productivity Allen Putnam
$14.com is offering a feast of science fiction and
fantasy titles all month long.newscom.metapsychology culturevulture
Mystery
master Michael Connelly's "The Narrows" garnered the top spot on the
list narrowly beating a group
of thrillers including "The Da Vinci
Code", the recently released "Dante's Equation", "Angels and
Demons",
"Digital Fortress" and Kathy Reich's "Monday Mourning".
Two new releases were among the
top 10 this month -- "Sandstorm"
by James Rollins and Laurell K.99 Fiction
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Get Anyone to
Do Anything
and Never Feel David J. Miramax Books will continue to publish their books
through Hyperion and
Hyperion Books for Children. Miramax slowly expanded, until the creation of
Talk Media in 1999.condensation bestseller
"Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell retained a top spot on the list and the
just
published, "The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said" sold
briskly.95 + Thesauri
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The 2,548 Best Things Robert
Fireside General
6 Anybody Ever Said Byrne Books $8.com division
, the world's largest and most
popular eBookstore. Dubner HarperCollins $ 18. With successful
partnerships
with leading trade and reference publishers such as
Random House, Penguin/Putnam, Simon + Schuster
, Merriam Webster,
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eReader. will
be distributed by Hyperion and
Disney Publishing Worldwide. His recent bestsellers include The Know
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It-All by Esquire writer A. There, he
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Seinlanguage by
Jerry Seinfeld; Couplehood by Paul Reiser; and My Point ..tonnies arcane
Rob Weisbach Named President
and Chief Executive Officer of Miramax Books and President and Chief Executive Officer of WeinsteinCo
New Book Venture
S.
The book division has published 29 New York Times Best-sellers, six of which
have been in the #1 spot including Leadership, by former Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani, Leap of Faith
, by Queen Noor, Big Russ + Me, by Tim Russert,
Summerland, by Michael Chabon, Artemis Fowl III: The
Eternity Code, by Eoin
Colfer, and Ice Bound, by Dr.bookreporter crux
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Star-filled eBooks led
the fiction bestseller list in April. Martin's
3 Powerless Again Lieberman Press
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Robert Miller, president of Hyperion (ABC's adult books division) and
Deborah Dugan
, president of Disney Publishing Worldwide (which includes
Disney's children's books division) will
be responsible for acquiring all
future titles (for adults and children respectively) for the Miramax
Books
imprint, which will continue as an ongoing imprint within Disney.bookreporter goodreports
Motricity's eReader.com Announces
Bestselling eBooks for March
Perennial favorites included the NIV Bible and Merriam Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary.00 Self-Help
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Procrastinator's
5 Handbook Rita Emmett Walker Books $ 5.
In his role at WeinsteinCo, Weisbach will immediately begin seeking out
and acquiring new projects
for the Book division of the Weinsteins' new
venture, where he will be responsible for their publication
.. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. In 2000, Talk's editor-in-chief and president Tina Brown
brought Jonathan
Burnham to the book division.bestseller arcane
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Merriam-Webster's Merriam
Merriam Dictionaries
5 Collegiate Thesaurus Webster Webster $16.com (formerly
Palm Digital Media), a Motricity company, is
the world's largest and most popular ebookstore. With
a catalog of more than
75,000 mobile titles, the company is also one of the world's largest
providers
of mobile content through its network of consumer websites
and channel partnerships, reaching over
10 million consumers
worldwide.95 Religion
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Steven D. For more information, please visit
www.
Current books scheduled for publication by Miramax Books include such
eagerly anticipated titles
as Barbara Walters' memoirs; Freedom, written by
Malika Oufkir, the sequel to the New York Times
bestseller Stolen Lives;
Rudolph Giuliani's memoir of his years as a New York prosecutor; Silverfin
,
the first novel in the Young Bond series written by Charlie Higson; Artemis
Fowl: The Opal Deception
, the fourth book in the New York Times bestselling
series by Eoin Colfer; and The King in the Window
by Adam Gopnik. Jacobs and The Funny Thing Is .
Rob Weisbach Books received industry accolades
for innovation in marketing
and jacket and catalogue design, and became known for launching grass
roots
initiatives such as the Virgin Fiction contest and for publishing state-of-
the-art visual
books including The Pop-Up Book of Phobias and the companion to
Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize
-winning musical Rent.; O'Keeffe: The Life of an
American Legend, a biography of the artist by Jeffery
Hogrefe; and Alice, an
urban fairy tale for children by Whoopi Goldberg. Under Miller's
leadership
, the resulting label -- Miramax Books -- revolutionized the market
for screenplays by using highly
innovative sales techniques to expose
moviegoers to great written works. Over the next five years
,
Burnham worked with Susan Mercandetti, Weinstein and the rest of the Miramax
Books staff in creating
one of the most successful imprints in publishing.arcane lampooning
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Webster's
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for the
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In May, eReader. In addition to this new
role
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officer of the Book Imprint
of the Weinstein's new venture, temporarily named
WeinsteinCo.curled bestseller
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Jesus: What He Really Stephen
9
Said and Did Mitchell PerfectBound $9. From games to business applications, and from ringtones
to
eBooks, Motricity powers the entire spectrum of mobile content
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9 The Purpose-
Driven Life Rick Warren
Zondervan $ 14.com offers hundreds of new releases each month."
Rob Weisbach stated, "Miramax
Books is fueled by powerful voices and
remarkable lives, and I look forward to publishing this stellar
list of
authors with energy and care. My team and I will help build a publishing division that will
provide a nurturing home for writers of superior talent, work aggressively to
help all variety
of booksellers bring our titles to a broad audience, and find
new ways to close the gap between traditional
publishing and the next-
generation consumer.
Miramax Books began in 1993 after Hyperion
's Robert Miller met Harvey
Weinstein to discuss ways that Hyperion could leverage Miramax Films'
award-
winning scripts and stories into an ancillary business.
Some of the other New York
Times Best-sellers published by Miramax Books
include Madam Secretary, a memoir by former Secretary
of State Madeleine
Albright, Kristen Gore's debut novel Sammy's Hill, the Bartimaeus Trilogy,
written
by Jonathan Stroud, Artemis Fowl and Artemis Fowl: The Arctic
Incident, by Eoin Colfer, Bergdorf
Blondes, by Plum Sykes, and A Density of
Souls, by Christopher Rice.listology bookbrowse
Business Editors
DURHAM, N."
The "Spring into Savings" promotion propelled a number of fiction
titles priced
below $10 up the bestseller list in March. And in Romance, Sabrina Jeffries' "To
Pleasure a Prince
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8 The Pagan Christ Harpur
Publishing $10.motricity. The promotion also spurred
sales of other titles in the Hitchhikers
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Adams.com exclusive,
"The Clutter Busting Handbook" by Rita Emmett, the
top selling
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Jack Welch,
7 Winning Suzy Welch
HarperCollins $ 18. It's
been great working with Bob Miller on building Miramax Books over the
past 12
years and we look forward to future successful collaborations. And I Do Have One
by Ellen
DeGeneres.legenda crux
com division, the world's largest and most
popular eBookstore.95 Thrillers
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Pocket Suspense +
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Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate
Dictionary
, Eleventh Merriam Merriam Dictionaries
4 Ed Webster Webster
$25.com
About Motricity
Motricity is the premier provider of mobile content to consumers
,
uniquely powering over 120 million mobile subscribers with its
market-leading Fuel mobile content
delivery platform through global
partners such as Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless, mmO2,
Amazon
." The eBook of "Hitchhikers Guide"
was promoted together with the Disney film that opened at the
end of
the month.99 Fiction
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8 Sandstorm
Rollins HarperCollins $17.motricity. "Our new agreement with Rob highlights
our ongoing
commitment to our current authors at Miramax Books and
demonstrates our utmost confidence in Rob
's ability to identify talented
authors and a diverse range of projects to bring into our new company
. The imprint's launch title, The Tenth
Justice, by first time novelist Brad Meltzer, became an instant
New York Times
bestseller, as did such books as Babyhood by Paul Reiser, Naked Pictures of
Famous
People by Jon Stewart, and Book by Whoopi Goldberg. Among the other
bestselling and critically acclaimed
writers Weisbach published at the imprint
were A.bookslut listology
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Suspense +
8 Monday Mourning Kathy Reichs Scribner $6."
Weisbach is joining
Miramax Books after spending three years as vice
president and editor-at-large at Simon + Schuster
, where he published select
fiction and nonfiction titles with the Simon + Schuster adult trade division
. Other imprint titles
included The Nazi Officer's Wife, the Holocaust memoir by Edith Hahn; the
Lambda award-winning Openly Bob by pioneer gay standup Bob Smith; and Use Me,
the acclaimed fiction
debut of Vanity Fair contributor Elissa Schappell.margins legenda
com will introduce new updated versions of eReader
Pro for Palm and Pocket PC with new Mac and Windows versions to
follow.99 Thrillers
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St. Clarke as well as Hugo and
Nebula award- winning authors Greg Bear, Philip K.bestseller gumby
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Nokia, Sony Ericcson, Sendo and other series 60 and UIQ smart phones
.
The Top 10 Non-Fiction eBooks by Unit Sales for March 2005:
eList
Rank Title Author Publisher Price Category
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Time Mystery +
1 The Narrows Michael Connelly Warner
$6. For more
information, please visit www. This is the first known "See the Movie, Read the eBook
"
promotion and an eReader.95 Detectives
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Laurell K.
eReader.com also carries more than 400
Star Trek titles.com) Rita Emmett Walker Books $ 9. Straus, Thought +
2 the Twentieth
Century" Friedman Giroux $ 14. The Walt
Disney Company will retain the name "Miramax Books
" and the Miramax Books
backlist of already published books. Details about the Weinsteins' new company
,
including its name, financial backers and other specifics, will be announced
during the next
several weeks.
Prior to Simon + Schuster, Weisbach was president and publisher of Rob
Weisbach
Books at William Morrow. Homes (Music for Torching) and Amanda Davis (Circling the Drain);
filmmakers
Tim Burton and Ethan Coen; humorist Sandra Bernhard, painter and
nature writer James Prosek, and
U.arcane bookbrowse
Clarke and Ballantine Science
3 Time's Eye Stephen Baxter Books $7
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Malcolm Business +
7 Blink Gladwell
Time Warner $15.C.
The Top 10 Non-Fiction eBooks by Unit Sales for April 2005:
eList
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Price Category
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The Clutter-Busting
Handbook (exclusively
1 at eReader.ereader.com
Bob
and Harvey Weinstein to Continue Overseeing Miramax Books Through
September
30, 2007
Miramax Books imprint and backlist to remain part of the Walt Disney Company
NEW YORK, Rob Weisbach has been appointed
president and chief executive officer of Miramax Books
, it was announced today
by Miramax co-chairmen Bob and Harvey Weinstein. WeinsteinCo.tonnies gumby
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About eReader. The
eBook-exclusive script by George Lucas of "Star Wars: Episode III
Revenge of the Sith" was followed
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, "A Stroke
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The Restaurant of the Douglas Science
5 End of the Universe Adams Rosetta Books $ 8. Ballentine
10 A Stroke of Midnight
Hamilton Books $17. St.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050405/NYTU155 )
In his role at Miramax
Books, Weisbach will oversee the publication of
Miramax Books' scheduled publications currently under
contract through
September 30, 2007.J.bookslut metapsychology
For more information please visit:
www. Emmett's "Procrastinator
's Handbook" also
finished in the top 10 together with other self-help bestsellers
including "Get
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and "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress
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Founded in 1998, eReader. Weisbach will report to Bob and Harvey Weinstein, who
will
maintain a non-exclusive relationship with Miramax Books through September 30,
2007.
"Great writers are the common denominator for successful books and films
and we take special pride
in the talented authors we have worked with at
Miramax Books," said Harvey Weinstein.
Weisbach
began his publishing career as an editorial assistant at Bantam
Doubleday Dell in 1989 and was named
Senior Editor in 1992.bookslut metapsychology
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