NEW YORK, May 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Palm Digital Media, the leading publisher and distributor of eBooks for handheld computers, today released its list of April's top 10 best-selling eBooks here at BookExpo America, the premier show serving the largest book market in the world. The event runs today through Sunday at the Jacob K. Javits Center.

Palm Digital Media is a business unit of PalmSource, Inc., the Palm OS(R) subsidiary of Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) and maker of the most successful operating system for handheld computers and smart phones. Palm Digital Media eBooks are available for reading with Palm Reader(TM), the leading eBook reader application. Palm Reader runs on Palm Powered(TM) handhelds using Palm OS 3.0 and higher, as well as on Pocket PC handhelds.

Palm Digital Media offers a fast-growing list of more than 5,000 titles from most major U.S. publishing houses. The eBooks are available for purchase and download 24 hours a day at www.palmdigitalmedia.com. Most Palm Reader eBooks take less than two minutes to download and require only a few hundred kilobytes of available memory on the reader's handheld computer.

    Palm Digital Media Top 10 Best-selling Fiction Books

    April 2002

    1.  "God's Debris" by Scott Adams

    2.  "Manhattan Transfer" by John E. Stith

    3.  "Everything's Eventual" by Stephen King

    4.  "Spider-Man" by Peter David

    5.  "City of Bones" by Michael Connelly

    6.  "The Survivalist #1: Total War" by Jerry Ahern

    7.  "Orphan Star/The Tar-aiym Krang" by Alan Dean Foster

    8.  "Chameleon/The Rhythm Section" by Mark Burnell

    9.  "1st to Die" by James Patterson

    10. "The Source of Magic/A Spell for Chameleon" by Piers Anthony

    Palm Digital Media Top 10 Best-selling Non-fiction Books

    April 2002

    1.  The Holy Bible, New International Version from Zondervan

    2.  "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey

    3.  Webster's New World College Dictionary from Hungry Minds

    4.  Random House Webster's Pocket Spanish Dictionary from Random House

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    5.  Webster's New World Compact School & Office Dictionary from Hungry

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    6.  Random House Roget's Thesaurus from Random House Reference

    7.  "Piloting Palm" by Andrea Butter and David Pogue

    8.  "F'd Companies" by Philip J. Kaplan

    9.  "The Multi-Orgasmic Couple" by Chia, Chia, Abrams and Abrams

    10. "Inside 9-11" by Der Spiegel Magazine

More information about Palm Digital Media is available at www.palmdigitalmedia.com.

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CONTACT: Kathleen Dixon of Dixon Communications, +1-408-871-7765, or kathleen@kdixon.com, for Palm Digital Media