Posted June 14, 2010 What is the most widely read ebook in the world? Interestingly, no one knows the answer to that question.

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You can find best seller lists for ebooks, which are generally limited to one distributor’s numbers for a limited time window. Psia Ready Writing And Creative Writing Handbook For Kids. The best seller lists ignore all of the illegal ebook downloads, the free ebooks, the books from the past, and the books from distributors that don’t report their numbers. Capcom Classics Collection 2 Xbox Iso Files. In other words, no one has any way to determine which ebook has been the most widely read in the world. In the future, book best seller lists could become meaningless because the numbers will be too unreliable. A good guess is that The Bible is the most widely read ebook in the world, and The Book of Mormon is second. Things get tricky when you try to figure out who comes in third. I think there’s a good chance that I hold the third position with my book God’s Debris.

Yes, I did compare myself to God. But if it makes you feel any better, God won this round. God’s Debris was an ebook before it was a traditional book, and during that time it was a #1 best seller.

But that’s not the basis for my estimate, because in those days few people bought ebooks. Ten thousand ebook sales would have been considered a blockbuster. A few years ago I released God’s Debris on the Internet for free. Anyone with a computer or smart phone can still download and read it at no cost. The book is designed to be viral, in the sense that it’s most fun when passed along to a friend for later discussions. Here’s one free source: Stephen King got a lot of attention for releasing the “first mass market ebook” called Riding The Bullet. Exact download numbers are sketchy because of a computer crash, but more than 500,000 copies were downloaded.