The late Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson has beaten Stephenie Meyer and James Patterson to become the first author to sell more than one million ebooks on Amazon.
The online retailer said yesterday that Larsson, author of the Millennium trilogy, had become the first member of its new "Kindle Million Club", for authors whose work has sold over a million copies in Amazon's Kindle store in the US. The crime novelist is likely to be joined by thriller writer Patterson – Amazon said last week that it had sold over 860,000 of his ebooks – while Twilight scribe Meyer, Sookie Stackhouse creator Charlaine Harris and queen of romantic suspense Nora Roberts have each sold more than 500,000 Kindle books in the US.
The novelist's three books – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest – currently top Amazon's Kindle bestseller list, and are also in the top 10 bestselling Kindle books of all time, according to the retailer.
Quercus has sold 3.3m copies of Larsson's books in the UK, and estimates that worldwide sales of the three novels are somewhere between 35-40m copies, "but they are literally selling too fast to count", said Millar.
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