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The top 30 best selling eBooks of 2005 were:

1. Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith by George Lucas
(Del Rey, $7.99)
2. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $14.95)
3. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket Books, $6.99)
4. State of Fear by Michael Crichton (HarperCollins, $7.99)
5. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (St. Martin's Press, $5.99)
6. Embers Falling on Dry Grass by Robert Jordan
(Simon & Schuster, Inc., $3.50)
7. Deception Point by Dan Brown (Pocket Books, $6.99)
8. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition
(Merriam-Webster, $25.95)
9. Holy Bible, New International Version (Zondervan, $14.99)
10. The Narrows by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $5.95)
11. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
(Dell Publisher, $6.99)
12. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
(HarperCollins, $19.95)
13. Alien Infection by Darrell Bain (Double Dragon Publishing, $5.99)
14. Raising Atlantis by Thomas Greanias (Pocket Books, $6.99)
15. The Year Ahead 2005 by Susan Miller
(Barnes & Noble Digital, $12.95)
16. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
(RosettaBooks, $8.99)
17. Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear (Del Rey, $6.99)
18. Darwin's Children by Greg Bear (Del Rey, $6.99)
19. Winterfair Gifts by Lois McMaster Bujold
(Fictionwise.com, $2.49)
20. The Closers by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $17.95)
21. erriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus (Merriam-Webster, $17.95)
22. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
(RosettaBooks, $8.99)
23. Office Slave by J. W. McKenna (Renaissance E Books, $4.99)
24. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
(RosettaBooks, $8.99)
25. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
(RosettaBooks, $8.99)
26. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
(Broadway Books, $9.95)
27. The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren (Zondervan, $15.99)
28. Fallen Angels by Terence West (Double Dragon, $5.99)
29. Punished by Kimberly Zant (New Concepts Publishing, $3.99)
30.Getting Things Done by David Allen (Penguin Putnam, $14.00)

This is great news proving that the small press and ebooks are now gaining a dominant place in the market.