Yesterday Amazon announced that Nora Roberts was the third author to sell 1 million Kindle books. Russ Grandinetti, vice President of Kindle Contest says, “Nora Roberts has been a bestseller at Amazon for 15 years so this accomplishment is no surprise. We’re happy to welcome Nora Roberts to the Kindle Million Club, joining Stieg Larsson and James Patterson.”
SEATTLE—Jan. 12, 2011—Amazon.com, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Nora Roberts has become the third author to sell over 1 million Kindle books, becoming the third member of the “Kindle Million Club.” As of yesterday, Nora Roberts has sold 1,170,539 Kindle books under her name and her pseudonym J.D. Robb. The Kindle Million Club recognizes authors whose books have sold over 1 million paid copies in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). Stieg Larsson, author of the Millennium Trilogy, was the first author to hit the 1 million mark. James Patterson, author of more than 65 books that span the genres of suspense, fantasy, romance, historical fiction and children’s, was the second author to join the Kindle Million Club.
I’m not surprised that La Nora was the third. The woman is a powerhouse.
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