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NEW YORK — It’s electronic milestone time for Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy.

The late Swedish author’s blockbuster thrillers have sold more than 1 million copies in the e-book editions, publisher Alfred A. Knopf said Wednesday, making him at least the second author to join the e-million club. The ultra-prolific James Patterson also has more than 1 million e-book sales.

Amazon.com, the biggest player in the growing e-book market, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Larsson’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” the first book in the Millennium trilogy, is the all-time top seller on the e-book reading device the Kindle. Kathryn Stockett’s novel “The Help” is No. 2.

Knopf lauded the sales of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” about a journalist and a tattooed investigator trying to solve a decades-old disappearance.

“We are witnessing record-breaking sales for `The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ in trade and mass market paperback as well as in audio, so it is not surprising that this trend is being mirrored with e-books,” Knopf spokesman Paul Bogaards said.

“Dragon Tattoo” has sold 500,000 e-books, Bogaards said. Sales for the trilogy in all editions top 30 million worldwide; in the U.S. alone, more than 400,000 copies are selling each week.

Bogaards also backed up a report earlier this week by Amazon that said the Internet retail giant was selling more e-books than hardcovers. Kindle sales for the most recent Larsson book, “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” have topped those for the hardcover, said Bogaards, who added that he did not think hardcover sales had been hurt by the less expensive e-edition.

Larsson does not top every list. A spokesman for Sony’s e-book reading device, the Sony Reader, said Wednesday that “Dragon Tattoo” was the e-device’s No. 2 all-time seller, trailing Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol.” Patterson’s “Alex Cross” is No. 3.

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Alfred A. Knopf is a unit of Bertelsmann AG’s Random House Inc.

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Ben Balistreri is a storyboard artist and character designer for Dreamworks, where he’s worked on How to Train Your Dragon. He’s also — like everyone — a Star Wars fan. So when he tuned his unique design sensibilities to represent his 30 favorite Star Wars characters

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ? A multimillionaire’s newest rocket is poised to blast off Friday on its maiden voyage, a trial run of what the pioneering company hopes to do for NASA once the shuttles stop flying.

Space Exploration Technologies’ Falcon 9 rocket will attempt to carry a mock-up of its Dragon capsule into orbit Friday.

NASA wants to use the combo to haul cargo to the International Space Station next year. Elon Musk, chief executive officer for SpaceX, said astronauts could follow within three years of his company getting a contract.

It’s all part of President Barack Obama’s grand exploration plan: relieving NASA of the mundane chore of ferrying goods and people to the space station, so it can focus on developing what’s needed to get astronauts to asteroids and Mars in the coming decades.

Obama visited the SpaceX launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in April and saw the 180-foot rocket up close, before a speech at Kennedy Space Center. The 8-year-old company is one of several vying for NASA’s business.

“I hope people don’t put too much emphasis on our success,” Musk said, “because it’s simply not correct to have the fate of commercial launch depend on what happens in the next few days. But it certainly does add to the pressure.”

An earlier version, Falcon 1, already has flown into orbit, in 2008 and again in 2009. It took four tries to get it right.

Musk – a co-founder of PayPal – estimates this maiden voyage stands a 70 percent to 80 percent of success. That’s better than the historic 50-50 average for a first launch, but less likely than the odds of Russian roulette, he told reporters Thursday.

“Remember that scene from ‘The Deer Hunter?’ ” Musk asked with a chuckle during a telephone news conference. “That’s tomorrow, but not quite as likely at success.”

The four-hour launch window opens at 11 a.m.

The entire flight should last eight to 10 minutes. The goal is to place the Dragon mock-up in a 155-mile-high orbit, where it will remain for a year before re-entering the atmosphere and burning up.

Musk estimates his Hawthorne, Calif.-based company has spent as much as $400 million on developing the two rocket lines. An improved version of the Falcon 9 is already under development.

NASA’s Mike Moses, a shuttle launch manager, acknowledged last week following Atlantis’ final voyage that the test flight is important. But there’s much to be learned even if things go wrong, he said.

“A test fight, by definition, doesn’t have to go to orbit to be successful,” Moses said.

The pilot of Atlantis’ last flight, Dominic “Tony” Antonelli, said he’d gladly climb aboard a Falcon 9 if and when the time comes.

“Yes, absolutely. But I’m not that picky. I think I’d probably climb on just about anything,” he said last month, calling it “an impressive machine.”

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