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.
[9] The company's highest-ever earning title is Freida McFadden's The Housemaid’s Secret, which was published in February 2023.