Bookouture

Bookouture
Parent companyHachette (publisher)
StatusActive
Founded2012
FounderOliver Rhodes
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationLondon
Official websitewww.bookouture.com

Bookouture is a British digital publishing company. 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.[1][2]

Bookouture made its first big successes in 2015, when it sold 2.5 million books,[3] including Silent Scream by Angela Marsons, a crime novel featuring detective Kim Stone, and the thriller Secrets of The Last Nazi by Iain King. These were followed in 2016 by Robert Bryndza's The Girl in the Ice, its first book to sell a million copies.[4] In 2017, it was acquired by Hachette,[1][5] and in 2019 it sold 9 million books[3] more than half of them in the United States.[6]

In 2020, Bookouture launched the imprint Thread Books, with an initial group of five non-fiction books.[7]

Author Kerry Wilkinson has produced "the most titles Bookouture has ever released from one author", which was at 30 in 2021.[8]

Meanwhile, Angela Marsons' 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.[9]

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.[10]

  1. ^ a b "Bookouture is Britain's Hottest Digital Publisher". publishers In 2017 Hachette UK bought the publisher.
  2. ^ "100,000 sales in a month for debut Irish author". The Irish Times. 11 May 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Bookouture". September 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  4. ^ Philip Jones (March 6, 2017). "Hachette's New Clothes". Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  5. ^ Katherine Cowdrey (6 March 2017). "Hachette UK acquires Bookouture". the bookseller. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  6. ^ Katherine Cowdrey (January 11, 2019). "Bookouture plans US push in 2019 with recruitment drive". Retrieved September 4, 2020.
  7. ^ Katherine Cowdrey (April 3, 2020). "Bookseller Launches New Non-Fiction Imprint". The Bookseller. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  8. ^ "BESTSELLING AUTHOR KERRY WILKINSON PUBLISHES 30TH NOVEL WITH BOOKOUTURE!". Bookouture. 19 February 2021. Archived from the original on 19 February 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
  9. ^ Ashmore, Kelly (22 October 2023). "BBC to turn Angela Marsons' multi-million-selling crime books into a TV series as fans say 'it's about time'". Birmingham Live. Archived from the original on 14 November 2024. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
  10. ^ Brown, Lauren (28 September 2023). "Bookouture bags third book in McFadden's Housemaid thriller series". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 14 November 2024. Retrieved 14 November 2024.