Stieg Larsson Is First Author To Sell 1M E-Books

Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that the late Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson, author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, has become the first author to sell more than one million e-books on Amazon. The Swedish noir thrillers feature Lisbeth Salander, an asocial and extremely intelligent hacker and researcher, specialized in investigations of persons, and investigative journalist Mikael Blomqvist. 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."

Comments

Re:"Men Who Hate Women"

[tmassa99]

I've seen the 3 Swedish movies after reading the books, and they are not that well done, with the exception of the "brutal" scenes. They were really creepy. The production value was really low, and only "Lisbeth" and the actor that played Blomkvist was even remotely good. The actress that played his best friend/lover was a total dog. No movie will live up to the books, so bring on Michael Bay with some 'splosions.

Re:Its a shame

[jgrahn]

What is this world coming to when sadistic cliche-ridden trash become the top selling e-books? I would have thought people with ebook readers would read better written novels.

There has been a massive marketing campaign by Amazon and big chain bookstores to sell Larsson's books so that might explain it. I heard from someone who walked into Borders and got pitched Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by an employee before he even opened his mouth.

My impression too is that the books suck (never read them, but I think mom did). But the books sold in .se when the author was just a dead not well-known anti-fascist journalist. I don't think there's a conspiracy behind it. Lots of people like books like these.