Top Forty "Best Sellers": December 2000
In December we delivered 241,797 e-books to thousands of individuals in over a hundred countries.
| Rank | Author | Title | Downloads | 1 | Aesop | Fables | 1,586 |
| 2 | Wells | War of the Worlds | 1,128 |
| 3 | Carroll | Alice in Wonderland [with illustrations] | 1,044 | 4 | Franklin | Autobiography | 972 |
| 5 | Shakespeare | Macbeth | 943 |
| 6 | Verne | Around the World in Eighty Days | 935 |
| 7 | Carroll | Alice in Wonderland [without illustrations] | 924 |
| 8 | Darwin | Origin of Species | 916 |
| 9 | Anonymous | Beowulf | 911 |
| 10 | Dickens | Christmas Carol | 871 |
| 11 | Jefferson, ed. Coates | Jefferson on Politics and Government | 838 |
| 12 | Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles | 808 |
| 13 | Moore | The Night Before Christmas | 748 |
| 14 | Dickens | David Copperfield | 720 |
| 15 | Melville | Moby Dick | 717 |
| 16 | Shakespeare | Hamlet | 712 |
| 17 | Twain | Huckleberry Finn | 709 |
| 18 | Plato | The Republic | 688 |
| 19 | Alcott | Little Women | 652 |
| 20 | Shelley | Frankenstein | 648 |
| 21 | Irving | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | 634 |
| 22 | Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | 629 |
| 23 | Abbott | David Crockett: His Life and Adventures | 627 |
| 24 | Crane | Red Badge of Courage | 623 |
| 25 | Kipling | The Jungle Book | 618 |
| 26 | Boccaccio | The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love | 613 |
| 27 | Milton | Paradise Lost (1667 edition) | 611 |
| 28 | Dickens | Oliver Twist | 605 |
| 29 | Dickens | Tale of Two Cities | 594 |
| 30 | Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream | 594 |
| 31 | Carroll | Through the Looking Glass [without illustrations] | 574 |
| 32 | Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | 574 |
| 33 | Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | 564 |
| 34 | Frost | Group of Four Poems | 563 |
| 35 | Dostoyefsky | Notes from the Underground | 551 |
| 36 | Caesar | Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars | 551 |
| 37 | Poe | Murders in the Rue Morgue | 549 |
| 38 | Twain | Tom Sawyer | 543 |
| 39 | Jefferson et al. | The Declaration of Independence | 539 |
| 40 | Shakespeare | Comedy of Errors | 539 |

