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Top Forty "Best Sellers": March 2001

In March 2001 we delivered 309,284 e-books to thousands of individuals in over a hundred countries.


Rank Document Accesses
1 Canfield: Portrait of a Philosopher 1,895
2 Cooper: The Pioneers, Volume 2 1,836
3 Chekhov: The Black Monk 1,636
4 Dyer: Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1,461
5 Aesop: Fables 1,383
6 Wells: War of the Worlds 1,134
7 Carvalho: Forty Centuries of Ink 1,115
8 Beowulf [modern English translation] 928
9 Verne: Around the World in 80 Days 904
10 Darwin: Origin of Species 899
11 Shakespeare: MacBeth 879
12 Carroll: Alice in Wonderland [without illustrations] 872
13 Jefferson: Quotations on Politics and Government 863
14 Doyle: Hound of the Baskervilles 862
15 Carroll: Alice in Wonderland [with illustrations] 743
16 Kipling: The Jungle Book 713
17 Twain: Huckleberry Finn 696
18 Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet 686
19 Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 682
20 Irving: Legend of Sleepy Hollow 669
21 Melville: Moby Dick 658
22 Shakespeare: Hamlet 656
23 Baum: Marvelous Land of Oz [with illustrations] 655
24 Alcott: Little Women 653
25 Boccaccio: The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love 640
26 Shelley: Frankenstein 620
27 Genesis: King James Bible 607
28 Frost: A Group of Four Poems 603
29 Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream 587
30 Milton: Paradise Lost 577
31 Carroll: Through the Looking Glass 567
32 Burr: Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 563
33 Caesar: Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars 551
34 Austen: Emma 546
35 Crane: Red Badge of Courage 541
36 Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin 532
37 Twain: Tom Sawyer 529
38 Bronte: Wuthering Heights 513
39 Wilde: Picture of Dorian Gray 510
40 Wells: The Time Machine 509