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Peanutpress Announces Recipients of the Peanut Awards 2000
Awards for Authoring the Top Twenty-Five Best Selling eBooks in 2000; Stephen King Receives Four, and That Ain't Peanuts
Peanutpress.com has announced the winners of the Peanut Award 2000, honoring the authors of its top twenty-five best selling eBooks for Year 2000. As expected, Stephen King's Riding the Bullet (Simon and Schuster), the eBook that took the country by storm in March 2000 amid much fanfare, finished in first place. King also received awards for On Writing, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and Hearts in Atlantis -- all top twenty-five best sellers.
"From our perspective, King's Riding the Bullet vitalized the entire eBook industry," said peanutpress.com Vice President of Sales and Marketing Mike Segroves. "The excitement generated by Riding the Bullet provided Peanutpress with a springboard for growth, not only in terms of sales, but in terms of expanding our eBook catalog. It served to open many publishers' minds to licensing front-list titles, enabling us to offer our customers the most compelling eBook titles on the Net."
Although Stephen King figured prominently in this year's Peanut Awards, there were several other notable standouts. Tom Peters was the first to dislodge King from the monthly top-seller list with the project50, taking a strong fourth place. Second place featured another business guru of note -- Jim Cathcart for The Acorn Principle.
The only other authors to receive multiple Peanut Awards were Jerry Ahern for Survivalist #2: The Nightmare Begins, and Survivalist #3: The Quest, and John E. Stith for Redshift Rendezvous and Manhattan Transfer. Other prominent winners include Robert Ludlum, L. Ron Hubbard, Nelson DeMille, Dan Brown, and Robert Silverberg.
Peanutpress.com, Inc. is a leading provider of eBooks titles and technology for handheld computers. Peanutpress.com supports the Palm OS and PocketPC handhelds with the Peanut Reader and a growing catalog of titles from today's leading publishing companies and yesterday's best out of print books. Founded in 1998, peanutpress.com securely distributes an extensive selection of popular fiction and non-fiction eBooks from top publishers to users of Palm and Windows CE handheld organizers.
Peanutpress Top Twenty Five Best Selling Books for 2000
1. Riding the Bullet by Stephen King (Horror)
2. The Acorn Principle by Jim Cathcart (Business)
3. Robert Ludlum's The Hades Factor by Robert Ludlum & Gayle Lynds (Thriller)
4. the project50 by Tom Peters (Business)
5. The $100,000 Club by D. A. Benton (Business)
6. The Omega Game by Steven Krane (Thriller)
7. The Sails of Tau Ceti by Michael McCollum (Sci-Fi)
8. The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille (Thriller)
9. Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard (Sci-Fi)
10. Redshift Rendezvous by John E. Stith (Sci-Fi)
11. Stress for Success by James E. Loehr (Business)
12. Manhattan Transfer by John E. Stith (Sci-Fi)
13. On Writing by Stephen King (Bio)
14. The Survivalist #2: The Nightmare Begins by Jerry Ahern (Adventure)
15. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (Thriller)
16. Across a Billion Years by Robert Silverberg (Sci-Fi)
17. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King (Fiction)
18. Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King (Fiction)
19. The Plutonium Blonde by John Zakour & Larry Ganem (Sci-Fi)
20. The Truth Machine by James L. Halperin (Sci-Fi)
21. Star Trek: S.C.E. #1: The Belly of the Beast by Dean Wesley Smith (Star Trek)
22. The Year's Best Science Fiction (1999)
Edited by Gardner Dozois(Sci-Fi)
23. The Survivalist #3: The Quest by Jerry Ahern (Adventure)
24. Star Trek: New Earth: Wagon Train to the Stars by Diane Carey (Star Trek)
25. Lip Service by M. J. Rose (Fiction)