Bookouture is a British digital

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. It was founded in 2012 by Oliver Rhodes, a former marketing controller for Harlequin/Mills & Boon. Bookouture is notable for growing its e-book sales dramatically, and for having several of its publications sell substantial numbers. Bookouture made its first big successes in 2015, when it sold 2.5 million books, including ''Silent Scream'' by

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, a crime novel featuring detective Kim Stone, and the thriller '' Secrets of The Last Nazi'' by

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. These were followed in 2016 by Robert Bryndza's ''The Girl in the Ice'', its first book to sell a million copies. In 2017, it was acquired by Hachette, and in 2019 it sold 9 million books more than half of them in the

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. In 2020, Bookouture launched the imprint ''Thread Books'', with an initial group of five non-fiction books. Author Kerry Wilkinson has produced "the most titles Bookouture has ever released from one author", which was at 30 in 2021. Meanwhile,

' Kim Stone series, all of which has been published through Bookouture, has sold 5.5m copies, with BBC Studios optioning the first 20 books in the series. The company's highest-ever earning title is Freida McFadden's ''The Housemaid’s Secret'', which was published in February 2023. As of September 2023, the book had sold 1.8m copies.

Bestselling authors

* Carla Kovach * Freida McFadden * Jenny Hale * Julia Crouch * K.L. Slater * Kathryn Croft * Kerry Fisher * Kerry Wilkinson * K. L. Slater * Leah Mercer * Lisa Regan * Patricia Gibney * Robert Bryndza * Shalini Boland * Suzanne Goldring

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