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February 13, 2012
Stieg Larsson first to sell one million Kindle books
Published: 28 Jul 10 08:04 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/28036/20100728/
Sweden's Stieg Larsson is the first author to sell more than one million books in Amazon's Kindle electronic bookstore, the company announced on Tuesday.
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Larsson, the editor-in-chief of the magazine Expo, died suddenly of heart attack at age 50 in 2004. The trilogy chronicles the adventures of Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist like Larsson, and a young computer hacker and punky cohort in solving mysteries, Lisbeth Salander.
Hachette Book Group, publisher of US thriller writer James Patterson, said earlier this month that he had become the first novelist to sell more than one million e-books, a figure that includes other e-book sales besides Kindle. The Kindle electronic bookstore opened in 2007.
Earlier on Tuesday, Sony Pictures confirmed that British actor and Bond star Daniel Craig will star in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." Craig, 42, will start working on on the film in a few months after shooting on "Cowboys and Aliens" with co-star Harrison Ford finish wraps up.
Swedish production company Yellow Bird and directors Niels Arden Oplev and
Daniel Alfredson have already filmed the trilogy in Swedish as both films and a television series. The first installment has been released around the world starting last year, while the second installments had a limited release in North America on July 9th.
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Lame.
Guess what else? They still haven't decided who will play Lisbeth Salander yet.
Guess what else? They're not going to film all three movies in the trilogy all together. They're going to wait to see how well the first film does before they start in on making the sequels. If the first film tanks, then probably they won't even bother I suppose.