The Amazon.com Hit List.

Business Editors, Entertainment Writers

SEATTLE--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--July 24, 2002

Amazon.com's (Nasdaq:AMZN) biweekly "Hit List" supplies entertainment media with regular, interesting industry facts, trends and numbers from the No. 1 online retailer.

Based

on purchasing information from Amazon.com's millions of customers, this list represents real-time consumer data that only Amazon.com can provide. For more information about any of these trend stories or to interview an Amazon.com editor, contact Amazon.com Media Relations at 206/266-7180.

Amazon.com's Movers & Shakers lists, located at www.amazon.com/movers-and-shakers, feature the biggest gainers in sales rank over the past 24 hours. The lists are organized by store: Books, Music, Video, DVD, Electronics, Software, Toys & Games, Computer & Video Games, Kitchen & Housewares, Outdoor Living and Tools & Hardware. Amazon.com also features hourly updated bestseller lists found on each store's home page.

FACT: Yeah, Baby! Spy Spoofs Are Swingin' on Amazon.com's DVD Sales Chart

-- As a real-time barometer for trends and sales information, Amazon.com can provide insight into who's leading the pack in the book club arena based on related sales to date.

-- After being announced as Good Morning America's book club pick, Ann Packer's The Dive from Clausen's Pier surged to No. 1 on Amazon.com's Books bestseller list, and it is the bestselling book club pick yet this summer. The title is currently No. 16 on Amazon.com's Books bestseller list.

-- All three of Kelly Ripa's book recommendations, Kate White's If Looks Could Kill, Adele Lang's Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber: The Katya Livingston Chronicles and Carly Phillips's The Bachelor, have seen dramatic sales spikes since being selected for "Reading with Ripa." Kelly's first pick, If Looks Could Kill, had the highest gain in sales on Amazon.com of any new book club pick so far, jumping 1,300 percent in sales after being selected in May.

-- Additional book club picks currently in Amazon.com's Books bestseller list include the Today show's pick, Stephen L. Carter's The Emperor of Ocean Park, at No. 17 and USA Today's pick, Richard Russo's Empire Falls, at No. 27.

FACT: Eva Cassidy Returns to Amazon.com's Music Bestseller List

-- As a real-time barometer for trends and sales information, Amazon.com can provide insight into who's leading the pack in the book club arena based on related sales to date.

-- After being announced as Good Morning America's book club pick, Ann Packer's The Dive from Clausen's Pier surged to No. 1 on Amazon.com's Books bestseller list, and it is the bestselling book club pick yet this summer. The title is currently No. 16 on Amazon.com's Books bestseller list.

-- All three of Kelly Ripa's book recommendations, Kate White's If Looks Could Kill, Adele Lang's Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber: The Katya Livingston Chronicles and Carly Phillips's The Bachelor, have seen dramatic sales spikes since being selected for "Reading with Ripa." Kelly's first pick, If Looks Could Kill, had the highest gain in sales on Amazon.com of any new book club pick so far, jumping 1,300 percent in sales after being selected in May.

-- Additional book club picks currently in Amazon.com's Books bestseller list include the Today show's pick, Stephen L. Carter's The Emperor of Ocean Park, at No. 17 and USA Today's pick, Richard Russo's Empire Falls, at No. 27.

FACT: Battle of the Book Clubs: Good Morning America and Kelly Ripa Lead the Pack of Those Trying to Fill Oprah's Void

-- As a real-time barometer for trends and sales information, Amazon.com can provide insight into who's leading the pack in the book club arena based on related sales to date.

-- After being announced as Good Morning America's book club pick, Ann Packer's The Dive from Clausen's Pier surged to No. 1 on Amazon.com's Books bestseller list, and it is the bestselling book club pick yet this summer. The title is currently No. 16 on Amazon.com's Books bestseller list.

-- All three of Kelly Ripa's book recommendations, Kate White's If Looks Could Kill, Adele Lang's Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber: The Katya Livingston Chronicles and Carly Phillips's The Bachelor, have seen dramatic sales spikes since being selected for "Reading with Ripa." Kelly's first pick, If Looks Could Kill, had the highest gain in sales on Amazon.com of any new book club pick so far, jumping 1,300 percent in sales after being selected in May.

-- Additional book club picks currently in Amazon.com's Books bestseller list include the Today show's pick, Stephen L. Carter's The Emperor of Ocean Park, at No. 17 and USA Today's pick, Richard Russo's Empire Falls, at No. 27.