Larsson first to sell 1 million ebooks

THE late Swedish author Stieg Larsson has become the first writer to sell more than one million ebooks on the online retail site Amazon.

The author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has been named the first member of the Kindle Million Club which has been set up to honour authors whose entire body of work has produced more than a million sales for the electronic bookstore.

All three books in his popular Millennium Trilogy, whose third instalment, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest was first published in Sweden in 2007, are among the top 10 bestselling Kindle books. Larsson died of a heart attack in 2004 before seeing his novels become bestsellers.