March 4, 2005

Most readers prefer book that doesn't exist . . .

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Internet mega-retailer Amazon.com has released its list of its bestselling titles from around the world for 2004. The full list, as posted on Booktrade.info, is broken up by country, but not by fiction and nonfiction. In Canada, the number one book is The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown. In Germany, it’s Dan Brown’s other book, Illuminati. In the U.K., it’s J.K. Rowling‘s Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince. In France, it’s J.K. Rowling‘s Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince. In Japan, it’s J.K. Rowling‘s Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince. And in the U.S., it’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents America (with the top ten rounded out by Unfit For Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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