Random House ceo Markus Dohle writes to employees worldwide to “celebrate a good fiscal year for Random House worldwide despite the hurdle of ailing economies in most of our territories.” Among the highlights, Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy is “on course to sell 14 million copies in 2010” in the US across all formats, with another 2 million trade paperbacks and e-books in Germany.
Worldwide digital sales are expected to be up by 250 percent over 2009, and in the US he acknowledges that “for some of our fall publication titles, nearly half of the overall first-week sales have been in the e-book format.”