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Leadership for the Twenty-First Century Continues to Dominate the Best Read eBooks
HOUSTON (November 5, 2002) - Seven out of the Top 20 Best Read eBooks in October were on the September list, showing an emerging consistency in online ebook reading habits. For the first time, one book, Leadership for the Twenty-First Century by Joseph C. Rost, held the number one position for two consecutive months. Rost's book on leadership was published in 1993 by Praeger Publishers and is a "critique of the efforts of leadership scholars and practioners in the twentieth century to understand leadership based on the values and cultural norms of the industrial paradigm," states Rost in his preface. The full October list of Best Read ebooks (ebooks 1 - 35) is published by Questia, the world's largest online library of books and is available at www.Top20eBooks.com.
The Top 20 Best Read eBooks offers a view of the most widely read ebooks on Questia, the world's largest online library of books. The reading patterns of users of the Questia service are aggregated and then ranked. Ranking is based primarily on page views (each time one person looks at a page results in one "page view") and the overall number of unique users who accessed that title. Secondarily, book length is factored in to correct for the fact that shorter books, even if read in their entirety, would have fewer page views. The November Top 20 Best Read eBooks will be published on December 5, 2002 at www.Top20eBooks.com.
The fact that seven out of the top 20 best read ebooks in October were also in the top 20 titles for September shows the consistency in ebook reading patterns month to month, at least for the tens of thousands of Questia users," said Troy Williams, Questia Media Inc.'s President and CEO. "This type of precise usage data should be very interesting and relevant to publishers and libraries who now have a way to identify which books and how much of each given book is being read. I can see how this data would be useful in determining which new titles to publish, identifying back-listed titles to reprint, and developing library collections," continues Williams.
The Questia service offers subscribers unlimited simultaneous access to every title within the 70,000-title Questia collection, enabling all users to read any book or journal article regardless of how many other users are reading the same book or journal article. In addition, Questia offers research tools to help organize, highlight, cite, and store a user's work on their personalized virtual bookshelf in the Questia library.
Questia Top 20 Best Read eBooks
October 2002
(September Ranks in parentheses) |
| 1. | Leadership for the Twenty-First Century , by Joseph C. Rost. Praeger Publishers, 1993. | (1) |
| 2. | Domestic Violence: Facts and Fallacies , by Richard L. Davis. Praeger Publishers, 1998. | (3) |
| 3. | The Oxford History of Medieval Europe , by George Holme. Oxford University, 1992. | () |
| 4. | The Abortion Controversy: A Documentary History , by Eva R. Rubin. Praeger Publishers, 1998. | (26) |
| 5. | Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking , by Diane F. Halpern. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996. | (19) |
| 6. | The Salem Witch Crisis , by Larry Gragg. Praeger Publishers, 1992. | (12) |
| 7. | The Ethics of Abortion: Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice , by Robert M. Baird & Stuart E. Rosenbaum. Prometheus Books, 1993. | (29) |
| 8. | The Bill of Rights: Its Origin and Meaning , by Irving Brant. Bobbs-Merrill, 1965. | (16) |
| 9. | The Navajo Indians , by Dane Coolidge & Mary Roberts Coolidge. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. | (7) |
| 10. | The American Revolution , John Fiske. Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1891. | (15) |
| 11. | Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction , by Damien Keown. Oxford University Press, 1996. | (2) |
| 12. | Witchcraft , by Charles Alva Hoyt. Southern Illinois University Press, 1981. | (10) |
| 13. | The Canterbury Tales , by Geoffrey Chaucer. Penguin Books, 1969. | (NA) |
| 14. | The Ethics of Human Cloning , by Leon R. Cass & James Q. Wilson. American Enterprise Institute, 1998. | (8) |
| 15. | John F. Kennedy , by Peter Schwab and J. Lee Schneidman. Twayne Publishers, 1974. | (NA) |
| 16. | Encyclopedia of Gun Control and Gun Rights , by Glenn H. Utter. Oryx Press, 2000. | (NA) |
| 17. | Theories of Child Abuse and Neglect: Differential Perspectives, Summaries, and Evaluations , by Jay W. Jackson, Henry C. Karlson, and Oliver C.S. Tzeng. Praeger Publishers, 1991. | (NA) |
| 18. | The First World War , by Keith Robbins. Oxford University Press, 1993. | (NA) |
| 19. | Causes and Consequences of World War II , by Robert A. Divine. Quadrangle Books, 1969. | (NA) |
| 20. | The Industrial Revolution , by Arnold J. Toynbee. Beacon Press, 1956. | (NA) |
| Rankings reflect total page views and unique users on the Questia service for November 1 through November 30, 2002, statistically weighted to factor in book length. |
About Questia
Founded in 1998, Questia Media, Inc., launched its revolutionary online library with powerful search and writing
tools created specifically to help students write better papers in January 2001. Questia provides unlimited access
to the full content of an extensive collection of books and journal articles, as well as a wide range of tools
including highlighter, markup, automatic footnotes and bibliography builder. For millions of students and researchers,
the Questia SM service will enable them to efficiently research and compose papers at any time, from virtually
every connected corner of the world. Based in Houston, Questia is delivering on the true promise of the Internet
by providing access to a wealth of human knowledge. Visit www.questia.com for
more information.
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Questia Media, Inc 713-358-2551
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