You may have already heard of Stieg Larsson, the author of the international bestsellers known as the Millennium Trilogy, which is comprised of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”. The author who delivered the manuscripts shortly before his death in 2004 has now become the first to sell over 1 million Kindle books, with the convenience of internet speed.
Amazon has created a new “Kindle Million Club” (with a current membership of 1) to recognize future authors whose entire body of work has sold over 1 million copies in the Kindle Store.
“Larsson’s books have captivated millions of readers around the world and ignited a voracious interest in the lives of its main characters Lisbeth Salander and Michael Blomqvist,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content. “It’s been exciting to have been a part of introducing so many people to these great books.”
The books are crime mystery thrillers in which Lisbeth is an intelligent, eccentric woman in her twenties with a photographic memory and poor social skills. Blomkvist is an investigative journalist, and a celebrity in his own right (with a history not totally dissimilar to Larsson’s own.)
According to Wikipedia, Larsson was the second best-selling author in the world in 2008, behind Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. By March 2010 his Millennium trilogy had sold 27 million copies in more than 40 countries. They’re still New York Times and international bestsellers. Larsson, who lived in Sweden, was the editor in chief of the magazine Expo and a leading expert on antidemocratic right-wing extremist organizations.
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