Top 10 E-Book Best-Sellers; Week Ending 5-19-13

The Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller list tracks e-book sales ranking and price data across five major e-book retailers with the goal of providing the most accurate picture of which e-books are most often purchased by consumers and at what price point. The full methodology is available here.

Dan Brown’s new novel, “Inferno,” is the No. 1 best-selling e-book this week, displacing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic “The Great Gatsby,” which experienced a surge in sales on the back of the feature film of the same name currently in wide release. While self-published authors have a strong presence on the best-seller list this week (with two in the top 10 and 5 in the top 25, big publishers dominate the top of the list. Here is the latest top 10 e-book best-sellers.

1. “Inferno: A Novel” (Robert Langdon) by Dan Brown; Random House; $14.99
2. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Simon & Schuster; $4.99
3. “The Hit” by David Baldacci; Hachette; $8.99
4. “12th of Never” (Women’s Murder Club) by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro; Hachette; $11.99
5. “Silken Prey” by John Sandford; Penguin; $12.99
6. “Dead Ever After: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel” by Charlaine Harris; Penguin; $12.99
7. “Whiskey Beach” by Nora Roberts; Penguin; $9.99
8. “Don’t Say A Word” by Barbara Freethy; Self-published; $0.99
9. “Crazy Little Thing” by Tracy Brogan; Amazon; $1.99
10. “The Bet” by Rachel Van Dyken; Self-published; $0.99

See the rest of the Top 25 best-selling e-books at Digital Book World.

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