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    DBW E-Book Bestsellers: Prices Climb as Hawkins Holds No. 1

    by Rich Bellis
    April 9, 2015
    Photo by Ronnie Pitman and reused here with Creative Commons license.

    The-Girl-on-the-Train-200x300The average price of a bestseller inches up to $6.66 from $6.14 last week on the Digital Book World E-book Best-Seller List as higher-priced titles crowd the upper rankings. Five of the top ten cost more than $10.

    And speaking of tens, this week marks the tenth that “The Girl on the Train,” the best-selling thriller by Paula Hawkins, as spent at No. 1.

    "The average price of a bestseller inches up to $6.66 from $6.14 last week on the Digital Book World E-book Best-Seller List as higher-priced titles crowd the upper rankings."

    The titles at Nos. 2 and 3 haven’t budged since last week’s roundup either, while a new title by J. R. Ward, called “The Shadows,” debuts at No. 4.

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    E-book bestsellers from the week ending 4/3:

    1. “The Girl on the Train: A Novel,” Paula Hawkins, Penguin Random House, $6.99
    2. “The Stranger,” Harlan Coben, Penguin Random House, $10.99
    3. “The Longest Ride,” Nicholas Sparks, Hachette, $5.39
    4. “The Shadows: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood,” J.R. Ward, Penguin Random House, $11.95
    5. “NYPD Red 3,” James Patterson; Marshall Karp, Hachette, $9.99
    6. “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel,” Anthony Doerr, Simon & Schuster, $12.99
    7. “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania,” Erik Larson, Penguin Random House, $10.99
    8. “Gone Girl: A Novel,” Gillian Flynn, Penguin Random House, $4.20
    9. “The Nightingale,” Kristin Hannah, Macmillan, $12.99
    10. “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy Book 3),” Veronica Roth, HarperCollins, $3.99

    See the complete list of this week’s top 25 e-book bestsellers at Digital Book World.

    Rich Bellis writes for Digital Book World, where this article originally appeared.

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