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Stieg Larsson books pass 1 million in Kindle sales

LOS ANGELES -- Stieg Larsson, author of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” has become the first writer to sell more than one million Kindle e-books thanks to his popular mystery Millennium Trilogy novels, online retailer Amazon.com said on Tuesday.

Larsson, who died in 2004 before his novels hit the best-seller list worldwide, was named the first member of the “Kindle Million Club,” Amazon.com said.

All three books in the trilogy, whose third installment “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest” was first published in Sweden in 2007, are among the top 10 best-selling books Kindle books of all time.

Their print editions have sold more than 27 million copies worldwide and have been translated from their original Swedish into more than 40 languages.

Amazon.com, the world's largest online bookseller, launched its Kindle e-reader in 2007.

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