Amazon touts Larsson as first million-book Kindle author
updated 12:05 pm EDT, Tue July 27, 2010
Steig Larsson first to join Kindle Million Club
Amazon on Thursday said the late Stieg Larsson is the first author to join the Kindle Million Club, having sold one million Kindle books. Larsson wrote the global bestseller Millenium Trilogy, which includes The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. All three are in the top 10 bestselling Kindle books of all time and are New York Times and international bestsellers.
Larsson lived in Sweden, where he was the editor in chief of the magazine Expo and a leading expert on antidemocratic right-wing extremist organizations. He passed in 2004, not long after delivering the manuscripts for the trilogy.
The achievement is a milestone for e-books, which just recently began overtaking hardcover books for sheer sales. Amazon is helped by the multi-platform nature of its store, as Kindle books are also available on competitors like the iPad as well as iPhones, Android phones, BlackBerries and computers.
