1stBooks Author Joe Vitale’s The Greatest Money- Making Secret in History! Hits #3 on Amazon’s Bestseller List

Print-On-Demand (POD) Author’s Newest Title Takes Leading Spot for Live Book on World’s Top Online Shopping Site New Title Trailing Closely Behind Pre-sale Orders for J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Senator Hillary Clinton’s Living History

BLOOMINGTON, IN (PRWEB) June 8, 2003 - 1stBooks, the leading provider of print-on-

demand and e-book publishing services, announced today that one of its author’s new titles, Joe Vitale’s The Greatest Money-Making Secret in History, reached #3 on the overall Amazon.com Bestseller List, which includes all genres and individual titles sold throughout the site, on Wednesday, June 4, 2003. Concurrently, another one of Mr. Vitale’s 1stBooks titles, Spiritual Marketing: A Proven 5-Step Formula for Easily Creating Wealth from the Inside Out, took the #25 spot on the same Amazon bestseller list. Robert McCormack, President of 1stBooks, made the announcement.

The Greatest Money-Making Secret in History! by Joe Vitale is the author’s second consecutive print-on-demand (POD) book to land a top spot on Amazon -- finishing out third to pre-sale orders for J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Senator Hillary Clinton’s Living History. Mr. Vitale’s first book, Spiritual Marketing: A Proven 5-Step Formula for Easily Creating Wealth from the Inside Out, ranked #1 shortly after its initial release on June 5, 2002 making him the first print-on-demand author (POD) to achieve such status. With both of his titles having concurrently landed in top Amazon sales spots, Mr. Vitale has again made publishing history by being the first POD author to have two of his titles place within the top 25 books on the same day.

The Greatest Money-Making Secret in History details how the road to prosperity can be a smooth one, if you do one thing, give your money away! In this fascinating book, Mr. Vitale goes on to share the greatest money making secret practiced by ancient cultures and many of today’s wealthiest people. The book profiles some of the world’s richest people including John D. Rockefeller, PT Barnum, and Andrew Carnegie and shows how following their examples could attract more wealth in one’s own life.

Originally released in June 2002, Joe Vitale’s Spiritual Marketing: A Proven 5-Step Formula for Easily Creating Wealth from the Inside Out details how the road to prosperity can be a smooth one, if it is based on personal spirituality. In this book, Mr. Vitale shars his “Million Dollar Formula,” an outline of five simple steps to achieve any of your dreams.

“For the second year in a row, Joe Vitale’s new book has been singled out as among the most popular titles among thousands upon thousands of titles sold on Amazon, including many that have been written by famous authors and celebrities,” said Mr. McCormack. “This is truly a monumental achievement, not only for the self-publishing sector but for the entire publishing industry. Joe continues to prove that self-published authors are producing works of the very highest caliber.”

This latest announcement comes on the heels of several prestigious honors being bestowed upon 1stBooks and its authors. Just recently, two 1stBooks titles, Cuqui by David Kilpatrick and Not My Bowl of Rice by E.R. Escober, were named as finalists in the Independent Publishers Book Awards, an online publication which honors the outstanding works of independent authors and publishers.

Earlier this year, ForeWord, the nation’s premiere magazine dedicated to independent publishing, named five 1stBooks titles as finalists in their Book of the Year Awards, including Violet Storm by James A. Huston and Anne Marshal, Singingwood by Michael Anthony Cariola, Cuqui by David Kilpatrick, To Mine Own Selves Be True by Marinka Dolnar, and Images of Me by Jody Dempsey. Additionally this year, 1stBooks author Robert Ambos won the Writer’s Digest 1st Place Award for Fiction as part of the publication’s 10th Annual Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards for his inspirational novel The Brief Sun, while two additional 1stBooks authors received Honorable Mention Awards. Writer’s Digest is the world’s largest circulation magazine for writers.

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