Based on usage, here are the ten most popular e-books in our Safari Online Books collection for 2011. Each title includes [number of accesses during the year]. In total, an e-book was pulled from our virtual shelves 356,563 times last year. The top 10:
- Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design [26,372]
- Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program (4th edition) [20,417]
- Effective Java: 2nd edition [15,853]
- Computer Security: Art and Science [8165]
- Joomla! 1.5: A User’s Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website, 2nd Edition [6,914]
- Test Driven: Practical TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers [4,131]
- Head First Servlets and JSP, 2nd edition [4,061]
- Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML [3,791]
- Head First Design Patterns [3,465]
- OCA Oracle Database 11g: Administration: Exam Guide (Exam 1Z0-052) [2,713]
And the least popular e-book? Hard to say. We had 1,054 titles that saw only one virtual access during the year and 2,983 that just gathered cosmic dust. 5,097 (roughly 63%) of the titles in this particular e-book collection had at least one access.