13.08.10 | Graeme Neill in The Bookseller
Stieg Larsson has continued to dominate e-book sales at Amazon, with his Millennium trilogy topping the chart on both sides of the Atlantic. A comparison of prices also indicates Kindle e-book prices this side of the Atlantic are cheaper than in the US, with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on sale in the States for $7.14, or £4.57, compared to £2.68 in the UK.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has stayed at the top of Amazon.com's Kindle chart for more than a month, with the other books in the series, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest rounding out the top three.
The UK Kindle prices are cheaper than the printed version on Amazon.co.uk. Both The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest are on sale at £3.99 (50% off r.r.p.). The Girl who Played with Fire is priced £3.85 (52% off r.r.p.).
For the week ending 8th August, other titles in the top 10 included Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and Sophie Kinsella's Confessions of a Shopaholic, on sale at an eye-watering 89 cents, or 56p.
Of the top 10 titles that are sold both sides of the Atlantic, only one is more expensive in the UK compared to the US. Daniel Silva's The Rembrandt Affair is on sale for £11.97 in the UK store or $12.99 (£8.30) in the States. However, Eat, Pray, Love is considerably cheaper in the UK at £3.58 compared to its $12.99 (£8.30) US price.
Amazon.co.uk does not yet have a weekly Kindle sales chart but Larsson's books have also been consistently in the top three on the Amazon bestsellers chart, which is updated hourly, since the co.uk Kindle store launched last week. When it launched the the Kindle store Amazon.co.uk insisted that it would be setting the price, unlike Apple's agency model which allows publishers to set their own prices. The Larsson books have not been published on Apple's iPad.
Last month Amazon revealed Larsson was the first author to sell one million e-books through the site.
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