Bookouture is a British digital

publishing company Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

. 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

Angela Marsons Angela Marsons is a British author of crime fiction, from the Black Country in the West Midlands. She has sold more than three-and-a-half million copies of her novels, which have been translated into 28 languages. Writing career Angela Marsons is ...

, 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

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, 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.

Bestselling authors

* Lisa Regan * K.L. Slater * Kerry Fisher * Robert Bryndza * Kathryn Croft *

Patricia Gibney Patricia Gibney is an Ireland, Irish author of crime fiction who sold 100,000 copies of her first crime thriller as an e-book, and had total sales exceeding 500,000 copies in 2018. By 2019, total book sales had passed one million. Early life Gi ...

Shalini Boland Shalini (born 20 November 1979), also known as Baby Shalini, is a former Indian child artist and actress who predominantly worked in Malayalam and Tamil films. During the 80s, Shalini was the most successful child artist in the Malayalam film i ...

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* Jenny Hale

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