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Motricity's eReader.com Announces Bestselling eBooks for February; eReader.com Also Helps Customers Keep The Romance Alive with Special Features in March

Business Wire, March 15, 2005

DURHAM, N.C. -- Motricity, the premier provider of mobile content and solutions, today announced the top ten bestselling fiction and nonfiction eBooks for the month of February from its eReader.com division, the world's largest and most popular eBookstore.

The company also announced a special promotion in March to help eReader.com customers keep the romance alive. A different bestselling romance author, such as beloved queens of the genre Nora Roberts, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, Jude Deveraux, Liz Carlyle, Mary Balogh, Stephanie Laurens and Janet Evanovich, will be featured everyday. With selections including historical romance, romantic suspense and relationship advice, there is something for everyone at eReader.com.

February fiction bestsellers were chock-full of suspense thrillers led by the techno thriller "Rift" by Richard Cox. James Patterson returns to the bestseller list with two new releases, "Honeymoon" and "3rd Degree" while Jane Jensen's just published sci-fi thriller "Dante's Equation" was another customer favorite. Dan Brown's four titles remain firmly entrenched in the top 10 list.

The Top 10 Fiction eBooks by Unit Sales for February 2005:

                                                eList
Rank   Title        Author       Publisher      Price        Category
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                                 Ballantine                 Suspense &
1     Rift       Richard Cox       Books        $17.95      Thrillers
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   The Da Vinci                                             Suspense &
2    Code         Dan Brown      Doubleday      $14.95      Thrillers
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                    James        Little Brown               Suspense &
3  3rd Degree     Patterson        & Co.        $ 5.99      Thrillers
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                    James
                  Patterson
                     and         Little Brown               Suspense &
4  Honeymoon   Howard Roughan      & Co.        $16.95      Thrillers
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                     Dan                                    Suspense &
5 Deception Point   Brown        PocketBooks     $ 6.99      Thrillers
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                     Dan                                    Suspense &
6 Angels & Demons   Brown        PocketBooks     $ 7.99     Thrillers
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                     Jane        Ballantine                 Suspense &
7 Dante's Equation  Jensen         Books         $ 9.95     Thrillers
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                      Dan        St. Martin's               Suspense &
8 Digital Fortress   Brown         Press         $ 5.99     Thrillers
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                     Darrell                                   Science
9 Alien Infection     Bain       Double Dragon   $ 5.99        Fiction
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                     Jeffrey      Simon &                   Suspense &
10 Garden of Beasts   Deaver      Schuster       $ 6.99     Thrillers
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                     Michael                                Suspense &
10 State of Fear     Crichton   HarperCollins    $19.95     Thrillers
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Non-fiction bestsellers spanned from the boardroom to the bedroom in February. Featured Valentine's Day titles stirred the passions of eBook customers with three titles making the list. "How to Make Love All Night (and Drive a Woman Wild)" and "Hot Sex" finished in the top slots joined by "The French Maid and 21 More Naughty Sex Fantasies to Surprise and Arouse Your Man."

Those seeking fulfillment at work chose "Life is a Series of Presentations", "The Ten Day MBA, Rev Ed" and "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell. The newly released reference guide, "The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said," was another hot seller.

The Top 10 Non-Fiction eBooks by Unit Sales for February 2005:

                                                  eList
Rank   Title           Author       Publisher     Price      Category
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  How to Make Love
   All Night (and       Barbara                          Relationships
1 Drive a Woman Wild) Keesling, PhD HarperCollins  6.99   & Sexuality
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  Hot Sex:                                               Relationships
2 How to Do It          Tracy Cox   Bantam Books   9.95   & Sexuality
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3 NIV Holy Bible        Zondervan   Zondervan    $14.99     Religion
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 Merriam-Webster's
   Collegiate
   Dictionary,          Merriam       Merriam             Dictionaries
4  Eleventh Ed          Webster       Webster      $25.95   & Thesauri
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  Merriam-Webster's      Merriam     Merriam              Dictionaries
5 Collegiate Thesaurus   Webster     Webster       $16.95   & Thesauri
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                       Tony Jeary,
                        Kim Dower,
  Life is a Series        J.E.                              Business &
6 of Presentations     Fishman    Fireside Books   8.99     Technology
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 The French Maid and       Don
 21 More Naughty Sex     Macleod
 Fantasies to Surprise  and Debra    Broadway            Relationships
7 and Arouse Your Man    Macleod      Books         9.95   & Sexuality
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 The 2,548 Best Things   Robert                                General
8 Anybody Ever Said      Byrne    Fireside Books    8.99     Reference
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 The Ten Day MBA,      Steven A.                            Business &
9  Rev Ed.            Silbiger     HarperCollins   12.95    Technology
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                      Malcolm                               Business &
10 Blink              Gladwell     Time Warner    $15.95    Technology
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