USA TODAY'S Best-Selling Books List Continues to Add Digital Sales Information

List Now Includes Barnes & Noble nook And Sony Reader Store Sales in Rankings

MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books List now includes sales figures from the Barnes & Noble nook and Sony's Reader™ Store in overall sales rankings. This is in addition to Kindle sales which were added in July 2009. USA TODAY is the first major book list to include this variety of digital book sales. The list runs in Thursday's edition of USA TODAY and online at booklist.usatoday.com.  

Rankings for USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books List are based on retail sales data collected each week that include more than 2.5 million volumes from about 7,000 physical retail outlets in addition to books sold online. USA TODAY's list ranks titles regardless of genre or format, providing one of the best assessments of which books are most popular among readers and consumers each week. USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list has been published each Thursday in the newspaper's Life section since October 28, 1993.

Sales information provided by Barnes & Noble will now include nook eBook Reader and the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, the world's largest eBookstore which offers more than a million eBooks, magazines and newspapers, in addition to its retail stores and online business at Barnes & Noble.com.

Since the inception of Sony's Reader Store in September 2006, it has included a wide offering of new releases, bestselling eBook titles and newspapers. Today, the store features access to more than one million titles and links to borrow eBooks from local libraries nationwide. The store has sold many millions of titles to Reader owners and beyond.

USA TODAY was founded in 1982 with a mission to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation. Through its flagship newspaper and popular Web site, USA TODAY engages the national conversation and connects readers online through social media applications. USA TODAY, the nation's number one newspaper in print circulation with a total average daily print circulation of nearly 1.9 million, and USATODAY.com, an award-winning newspaper Web site which launched in 1995, reach a combined 6.1 million readers daily. The USA TODAY news and information brand also includes: USA TODAY Education, USA TODAY LIVE, USA TODAY Mobile, and USA TODAY Sports Weekly. USA TODAY is owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI).

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