Bloomsbury Publishing reported $147.5 million (£90.7m) in revenue for 2010 up from $141.8 million (£87.2m) in 2009.

The company attributed the growth to bestsellers such as Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, as well as to eBook sales. In 2010, Bloomsbury’s Bristol Classical Press imprint (which added Duckworth Academic through acquisition in November 2010), saw eBook sales grow eighteen fold in 2010 over 2009 from $131,000 to $2.3 million.

Nigel Newton, Chief Executive at Bloomsbury commented: “With sales of digital devices such as the Kindle, Nook and iPad growing rapidly, 2011 will clearly be the year of the e-book.  Our overall trade e-book sales are currently running at just under 10% of print sales, a proportion we expect to increase as more backlist titles are added and as the UK market gains the kind of momentum being seen in the US…On 1 March 2011, we will be implementing a new strategic plan for One Global Bloomsbury with Four Worldwide Publishing Divisions.”

While Stieg Larsson’s eBooks continue to be the most popular adult fiction downloaded from libraries, John Grisham’s The Confession climbed to No. 3 last month in OverDrive’s “Most Downloaded Books from the Library Lists.”

Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love; Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern and Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler remained the Top 3 library downloads in the adult non-fiction category. AndStephenie Meyer’s three Twilight titles continued to hold the Top 3 most downloaded eBooks in the juvenile fiction category in November.

Decision Points, the new memoir by former president George W. Bush joined the list as the second most downloaded audiobook in the adult non-fiction category. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell was number 3.

Follow this link to check out all of the most popular downloads from libraries lists for November.

Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern was the most downloaded nonfiction eBook from libraries in October, according to OverDrive, an eBook distributor for digital books that distributes eBooks to 11,000 library branches throughout the U.S.

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler were the second and third most popular downloads.

Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy topped the most popular adult fiction downloads. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was No. 1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest was No. 2 and The Girl Who Played with Fire was No. 3.

Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga titles were the most popular downloads for the juvenile fiction category with Twilight at No. 1, Breaking Dawn at No. 2 and Eclipse at No. 3.

Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma topped the library downloads in October in the juvenile nonfiction category, followed by Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson at No. 2 and 1,001 Facts About Dinosaurs by Neil Clark and William Lindsay at No. 3.

As of this writing, Elizabeth Gilbert‘s bestselling memoir, Eat, Pray, Love scored a unique feat: holding the third, fourth, sixth, and tenth spots on Amazon’s Most Highlighted Passages of All Time list.

Our Popular Passages feature uses  list to track the most underlined parts of bestselling books.

A staggering 1, 626 readers underlined the most popular passage in the memoir: “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that’s holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.”
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Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert topped OverDrive’s most downloaded adult nonfiction eBooks from libraries in August 2010.

The memoir turned movie was followed by Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern at #2 and Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler at #3. Malcolm Gladwell‘s Outliers and Elizabeth Gilbert‘s Committed came in at #4 and #5 respectively.

Stieg Larsson took the top three spots for the most downloaded adult fiction titles from OverDrive. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest topped the list. Kathryn Stockett‘s The Help came in at #4 and Private by James Patterson at #5.

Check out OverDrive’s other Top 10 lists by following this link.

As Eat Pray Love hit theaters around the country, Elizabeth Gilbert‘s follow-up memoir Committed has held a high spot on the NY Times‘ nonfiction hardcover bestseller list. Gilbert’s book is also the 32nd most highlighted book on Kindle–so we searched for readers’ favorite passages.

Using Amazon’s Most Highlighted Books feature, we can actually track which passages these eBook readers enjoyed. For our new Popular Passages feature, we will track the most underlined passages from bestselling books.

An impressive 645 Kindle users highlighted this passage: “Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”

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