Roberts becomes the third author in the "Kindle Million Club,"
joining Stieg Larsson and James Patterson
SEATTLE, Jan 12, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --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.
"Nora Roberts has been a bestseller at Amazon for 15 years so this
accomplishment is no surprise," said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of
Kindle Content. "We're happy to welcome Nora Roberts to the Kindle
Million Club, joining Stieg Larsson and James Patterson."
Roberts, who wrote the "In Death" series under the pseudonym J.D. Robb,
is the author of more than 200 novels. Her many books include "The
Search," "Northern Lights" and the popular The Garden Trilogy. Her
novels have won numerous awards, including the Golden Medallion Award,
RITA Award and Quill Award. One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential
People in 2007, Roberts was the first author to be inducted into the
Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. The New Yorker recently called
her "America's favorite novelist."
Like all Kindle books, these books are "Buy Once, Read
Everywhere"--Kindle customers can purchase these books and read them on
the $139 third-generation Kindle device with new high-contrast Pearl
e-Ink, on iPads, iPod touches, iPhones, Macs, PCs, BlackBerrys, Windows
Phones and Android-based devices. Amazon's Whispersync technology syncs
your place across devices, so you can pick up where you left off. With
Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books you purchase from the Kindle Store are
automatically backed up online in your Kindle library on Amazon, where
they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.
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bestselling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon.
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