Sept. 15 brought a shot of cash for booksellers and publisher Doubleday, a Random House imprint , thanks to a monster response to Dan Brown's new cliffhanger, "The Lost Symbol." The publisher claimed more than 1 million copies were sold in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Reuters reported:
"The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown has broken all previous one day sales for adult fiction in the first 24 hours of its release at its retail stores and online at Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com). The company also said that the eBook edition of The Lost Symbol is now the number one title in its eBookstore."
Doubleday yesterday also ordered an extra 600.000 copies run off to meet demand.
Posted
Sep 16 2009, 08:37 PM
by
Bob Hoover