Bookouture

{{short description|British digital publishing company.}}

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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.{{cite web |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/100-000-sales-in-a-month-for-debut-irish-author-1.3079857 |title=100,000 sales in a month for debut Irish author |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=11 May 2017 |access-date= March 15, 2018}}

Bookouture made its first big successes in 2015, when it sold 2.5 million books,{{cite web |url=https://www.bookouture.com/why-publish-with-bookouture/ |title=Bookouture |date=September 2020 |access-date= 3 September 2020}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/hachette-s-new-clothes-500041/ |title=Hachette's New Clothes |date=March 6, 2017 |author=Philip Jones |access-date=4 September 2020 |archive-date=22 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022190346/https://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/hachette-s-new-clothes-500041 |url-status=live }} In 2017, it was acquired by Hachette,{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-book-news/article/71580-bookouture-is-britain-s-hottest-digital-publisher.html|title=Bookouture is Britain's Hottest Digital Publisher|newspaper=publishers In 2017 Hachette UK bought the publisher.|access-date=2018-03-15|archive-date=2018-03-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316023533/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-book-news/article/71580-bookouture-is-britain-s-hottest-digital-publisher.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/hachette-uk-buys-bookouture-500016 |title=Hachette UK acquires Bookouture |newspaper=the bookseller |date=6 March 2017 |author=Katherine Cowdrey |access-date=15 March 2018 |archive-date=16 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316151721/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/hachette-uk-buys-bookouture-500016 |url-status=live }} and in 2019 it sold 9 million books more than half of them in the United States.{{cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/bookouture-plans-us-push-2019-new-editorial-team-932506|title=Bookouture plans US push in 2019 with recruitment drive|date=January 11, 2019|author=Katherine Cowdrey|access-date=September 4, 2020|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806230031/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/bookouture-plans-us-push-2019-new-editorial-team-932506|url-status=live}}

In 2020, Bookouture launched the imprint Thread Books, with an initial group of five non-fiction books.{{cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/bookouture-launches-new-non-fiction-imprint-thread-1199498/|title=Bookseller Launches New Non-Fiction Imprint|newspaper=The Bookseller|date=April 3, 2020|author=Katherine Cowdrey|access-date=August 29, 2020|archive-date=October 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024005818/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/bookouture-launches-new-non-fiction-imprint-thread-1199498|url-status=live}}

Author Kerry Wilkinson has produced "the most titles Bookouture has ever released from one author", which was at 30 in 2021.{{cite web |title=BESTSELLING AUTHOR KERRY WILKINSON PUBLISHES 30TH NOVEL WITH BOOKOUTURE! |url=https://bookouture.com/2021/02/19/bestselling-author-kerry-wilkinson-publishes-30th-novel-with-bookouture/ |website=Bookouture |access-date=14 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210219150248/https://www.bookouture.com/2021/02/19/bestselling-author-kerry-wilkinson-publishes-30th-novel-with-bookouture/ |archive-date=19 February 2021 |date=19 February 2021}}

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.{{cite web |last1=Ashmore |first1=Kelly |title=BBC to turn Angela Marsons' multi-million-selling crime books into a TV series as fans say 'it's about time' |url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/bbc-turn-angela-marsons-multi-27922908 |website=Birmingham Live |access-date=14 November 2024 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241114002959/https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/bbc-turn-angela-marsons-multi-27922908 |archive-date=14 November 2024 |date=22 October 2023}}

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.{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Lauren |title=Bookouture bags third book in McFadden’s Housemaid thriller series |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/bookouture-bags-third-book-in-mcfaddens-housemaid-thriller-series |website=The Bookseller |access-date=14 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241114001527/https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/bookouture-bags-third-book-in-mcfaddens-housemaid-thriller-series |archive-date=14 November 2024 |date=28 September 2023}}