Eragon beats Harry on Best-Sellers lists Eldest, the latest in the Eragon "Inheritance" saga by Christopher Paolini, beat out Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on several Best-Sellers lists last week. On the Wall Street Journal Fiction Best-Sellers List, Eldest was number 1 and Half-Blood Prince was number 2. On the USA Today Best-Sellers List, Eldest was number 1 and Half-Blood Prince was number 4. The Wall Street Journal's list reflects nationwide sales of hardcover books during the week ended last Saturday at more than 2,500 Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton, Bookland, Books-a-Million, Books & Co., Bookstar, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Coles, Coopersmith, Doubleday, Scribners and Waldenbooks stores, as well as sales from online retailers Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Contributing Booksellers to the USA Today list: Barnes & Noble Inc., Books-A-Million and Bookland, Books & Co. (Dayton, Ohio), Borders Books & Music, Bookstar, Bookstop, Brentano's, Crown Books, Davis Kidd Booksellers (Tennessee), Doubleday Book Shops, Hawley-Cooke Booksellers (Louisville), Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Lexington, Ky.; Cincinnati), Little Professor Book Centers, Powell's Books (Portland, Ore.), Ruminator Books (St. Paul, Minn.), Scribner's Bookstores, Tattered Cover Book Store (Denver), Waldenbooks, Wal-Mart, Amazon.com, B. Dalton Bookseller, Barnes & Noble.com. (info thanks to Yahoo! News) Published September 15, 2005
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