Random House CEO Markus Dohle praised bestselling authors like George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and Stieg Larsson in his annual letter to staffers.
Here’s an excerpt from the letter: “LA CAÍDA DE LOS GIGANTES by Ken Follett, published by Random House Mondadori, is 2010’s biggest-selling Spanish-language novel. We expect that we’ll continue to enjoy huge sales in 2011 from this autumn’s books by Lee Child, Umberto Eco, Nora Ephron, Ina Garten, John Grisham, Stephen Hawking, Laura Hillenbrand, Lauren Kate, Nigella Lawson, Tim Mälzer and Eckart Witzigmann, Barack Obama, Terry Pratchett, and Jay-Z, among many others. The unequaled sales momentum for the Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy has proven unstoppable these past twelve months and we are on course to sell 14 million copies in 2010 in multiformats in the U.S.—and 2 million more trade paperbacks and e-books in Germany.”
In addition, the executive also pointed to some dramatic gains in eBook sales. eBookNewser has more from the letter about digital sales.