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Overdrive Most Downloaded eBooks for August 2010 no comments
Overdrive today listed the most downloaded ebooks from libraries for August. No surprise that Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy novels are still in the top positions.
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
2. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
4. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
5. Private by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
6. The 9th Judgment by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
7. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
8. 61 Hours by Lee Child
9. The Search by Nora Roberts
10. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The most downloaded library audiobooks:
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
2. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
3. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
4. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
5. Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
6. The 9th Judgment by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
7. 61 Hours by Lee Child
8. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
9. Private James by Patterson and Maxine Paetro
10. 1st to Die by James Patterson
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Stieg Larsson Sells More than One Million Kindle Books no comments
Amazon announced today that Stieg Larsson is the first author to sell more than one million Kindle books. Larsson is the first member of a new “Kindle Million Club.”
All three books in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy—“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”—are now in the top 10 bestselling Kindle books of all time. These three books are 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. He died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscripts for “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl Who Played with Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.” The U.S. editions of these books are published by the Knopf Doubleday imprint of Random House, Inc.
Earlier this month it was announced that James Patterson was the first author to sell more than one million ebooks, but that came from sales across all devices, not just from sales at the Kindle Store.
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Stieg Larsson’s Unfinished Business no comments
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest"
I’ve read the first book in the series and have the second in my library waiting for me. I thought I knew the brief version of the author’s bio, but as with most things it turns out to be far more complicated than I thought.
Larsson was a Swedish journalist and writer. He turned all three of the Millennium manuscripts in to his publisher and then died of a heart attack before seeing them published and becoming international bestsellers. This much I knew, but the story does not end there.
When Larsson died he left behind his partner of 32 years, Eva Gabrielsson. As the two were not married and Larsson’s will was unwitnessed, all of his estate - including the royalties from his books – have gone to his estranged father and brother.
Larsson and Gabrielsson never married because Larsson reported on extremist organizations and was therefore under threat – in Sweden getting married would have made it easier for his enemies to find him through the public records.
Apparently Larsson was working on a fourth book when he passed away, which is variously reported as being one half to three quarters finished. That manuscript is currently on a laptop in the possession of Ms. Gabrielsson. She is refusing to give it up unless she is given the rights to administer Larsson’s estate and to ensure that it will be managed in the way that he would have wished.
In a recent interview in the Daily Mail Gabrielsson tells how she and Larsson “were constantly collaborating and it is my brainchild as well.” She has indicated that she may fight for the rights to the Millennium books on the basis that she is a co-author.
Ms. Gabrielsson’s plight has engendered quite a bit of sympathy. Fans have set up a website to help with her legal fees.
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