Loading...
As ebooks continue to grow in popularity, it seems that new sales records are constantly being set. Case in point: according to the New York Times, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has become the first ebook to sell over 1 million copies. And with combined sales of the entire Millennium trilogy at over 3 million copies, it sounds like The Girl Who […]
Unfortunately I have bad news for fans of late author Stieg Larsson. According to The Hollywood Reporter, there are currently no plans to release his unfinished final Millennium novel. This news comes despite the fact that there had been recent speculation in the blogosphere that the book might soon see the light of day. Paul Bogaards, senior VP of publicity at Alfred A. Knopf publishing […]
The drama surrounding the late author Stieg Larsson continues to intensify with each new revelation from Sweden. If you recall, there have been rumors swirling of an unpublished fourth book that would follow Larsson’s Millennium trilogy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the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) and continue the story of Lisbeth Salander and Mikael […]
Stieg Larsson, author of the insanely popular Millennium trilogy, is the first author to sell one million Kindle books. According to Amazon, all three of his books—The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest—are among the top ten bestselling Kindle books of all time. Amazon is calling Stieg Larsson the first member of […]
We might have to stop referring to Stieg Larsson’s bestselling Millennium books as a trilogy because there is new information about a possible 4th book featuring Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomqvist. It’s long been reported that Larsson had a partially completed manuscript at the time of his death, and now a friend of his, John-Henri Holmberg, has come forward with an email he received from […]
Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest debuted last month and concluded the author’s insanely popular Millenium trilogy. All three books, including The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire, are currently among the bestselling books on Amazon. The series introduced US readers to Swedish crime fiction, and now that it is finished, they are hungry for more. […]
Two unpublished stories by the late novelist Stieg Larsson have been discovered in Sweden. The science fiction tales “The Crystal Balls” and “The Flies” were received by the Swedish National Library as part of a private donation in 2007. When Larsson was 17 years old, he sent the two stories to Jules Verne, a science fiction magazine in Sweden. The magazines rejected the work. Larsson […]
In an interesting article in The Observer, Tom Lamont wonders why books are given different covers for each country they are published in, something not done for other types of media like movies and CDs. He interviews a few cover designers who attribute the changes in a book’s cover as an attempt to capture the cultural sensibilities of each individual country. However, at least one […]
Some of the most highly anticipated books of the year are coming this summer and I can’t wait to get my hands on them. Here’s a list of the blockbuster books that you will want to take to the beach with you this summer: Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris Available May 4, 2010 (Order on Amazon) From the publisher: After enduring torture and […]
Stieg Larsson’s new book THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST will be released on May 25. If you are interested in checking it out, here is the synopsis of the book and some selected reviews so you can get an idea of what to expect. (warning Spoilers abound if you haven’t read the previous two books) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Synopsis: […]
