Prior to agency pricing, Amazon often sold best-selling digital books for less than it paid for them, a marketing stance that some publishers worried would make the emerging digital-books marketplace less appealing for other potential retailers.
The book appeared on several best-seller lists and has sold more than 100, 000 copies in both print and digital form in the U.S., according to Random House Inc.
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Published in 1861 when she was in her early 20s, the book was a runaway best-seller: 60, 000 copies sold in its first year.
PrimaLoft clothing and sleeping bags are the REI-branded items that have sold best this year.
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Amazon sold many books, particularly best-sellers, for little more than the wholesale price, or even at a loss.
This year, retail giant Best Buy confirmed that it sold autorun virus-infected digital picture frames under its in-house brand, Insignia.
After all, our middle class was built by workers who invented products and made products and sold products -- the best in the world -- all around the world.
On health-insurance-buying websites (perhaps the best preview of government-run exchanges) like EHealthinsurance.com, which has sold 2 million policies, WellPoint dominates.
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Fidelity Magellan, one of the best-known actively managed funds in the country, sold more than 155, 000 shares, or 17% of its stake.
And they do not come much bigger than Gladiator - the soundtrack has sold more than one million copies worldwide and has been one of the top five best-selling classical albums for 14 months.
Its success paved the way for "Thriller, " which eventually became the best-selling album in history, with 50 million copies sold worldwide.
When Britain's GKN finished spinning off its fast-growth, high-profit industrial services operations in August, a lot of investors looked at what was left and concluded that the 240-year-old engineering company had sold off the best part of its franchise.
The Monster remains its best-selling series in North America, with 2, 755 units sold last year.
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The tour coincided with spiking fuel prices and appears to have succeeded -- Webasto sold 500 BlueCool units in July, its best month ever.
Sir Elton holds the record for the world's best-selling single - a version of Candle in the Wind that sold more than 33 million copies when it was released in tribute to Princess Diana in 1997.
Under his leadership, the company eliminated and sold under-performing brands, brought back the best-selling Taurus nameplate, invested heavily in social media and digital marketing efforts, and developed new fuel-efficient models to counteract high prices at the pump.
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In the U.S., Chromebooks will also be expanding to more than 1, 000 Best Buy stores nationwide -- doubling the number of stores Chromebooks are presently sold in -- over the next couple of weeks.
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Rolls-Royce's sales figures are the best since 1978 when the company sold 3, 347 cars, mainly of the Silver Shadow II model.
Their 1977 soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling movie soundtrack ever.
Electronic Arts ( ERTS - news - people ), is the best-selling sports videogame of all time, with more than 65 million copies sold since it was first released in 1988.
But, with a lot less hindsight, they look no sillier than many of the loans extended, underwritten, securitized, sold and bought by what were supposedly the best minds on Wall Street--undocumented mortgages, mortgages with interest but no principal payments, those for more than the value of properties and those to people with toxic credit ratings.
Lady Gaga is one of the best-selling music artists of all time: 23 million albums and 64 million singles sold worldwide, Five Grammy Awards, 13 MTV Video Music Awards, Billboard magazine's Artists of the Year, Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, No. 1 on Billboard's list of top moneymakers, and Forbes title of the world's most powerful celebrity... the list goes on.
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They sold more than 100 million albums worldwide and Manzarek became one of the best-known keyboardists of his era, his artistry colouring tracks like Riders on the Storm and Light my Fire.
It was one of the best sales months in two years for F-series, which is the best-selling vehicle in the U.S. So far this year, Ford has sold 434, 920 F-series pickups.
Warren's 2001 book, The Purpose-Driven Life, is this decade's best seller with 19.5 million copies sold so far and compiling at the rate of 500, 000 per month.
While Apple has already confirmed that it has sold 2 million iPhone 5s, and retailers around the globe detail best ever pre-order records, Microsoft is hoping people will wait.
Together, the 17 franchises on our best seller list account for more than 867 million games sold worldwide over the last 25 years--enough that if you stacked them on top of each other, it would make a tower 13, 683 miles high.
Nintendo has sold over 145 million units in the DS line since 2004, making it the best-selling portable in history.
From the time that the Kindle Fire was announced late last year until a few weeks ago when it sold out and the new suite of Kindle devices were announced, it was the best-selling product on Amazon.com.
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