What is Camilla Lackberg thanking American publishers for?

[Joel S. Berson]

NYTimes, June 16, page 1:

A Dark Scandinavian Trilogy Sets Publishers Seeking More [headline]

     Camilla Lackberg has written seven blockbuster novels in her
native Swedish, but, until now, no one bothered to translate and
publish any of them in the United States.
     And she has a tattooed, secretive, bisexual computer hacker
named Lisbeth Salander to thank for it.

For not being published 'til now in the U.S.?

Joel

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